[IDEA] A pen that draws edible food; thoughts?ideas?

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This idea can be speculative and imaginative as possible, don’t worry about the technology behind it, just the concept itself and how it can be improved/changed.

I was sweeping around the internet trying to find a similar concept, yet I failed (if you have heard of something similar please tell me). Anyway I was speculating some shit in my spare time and came up with the ‘FEDEN’ (FEED+PEN… yeah… I’m still working on that…:c ).

This pen, allows the user to draw out the food they want to eat. If I were to draw an apple, than it would materialise and would be edible. Please write down any thoughts/ideas/extensions (anything useful). Thanks. :slight_smile:

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I like magic, too.

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I’d starve.
Should this be in Cafe Society? It is about art and food. :wink:

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Maybe it could draw flour in circles, building up on one another until you’ve got a noodle shaped like a tube. You could call it Pen a Pasta.

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smacks LHoD with a wet noodle.

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You mean edible ink. Right?

Can I use alphabet noodles to write out “chocolate cake”?

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Finally, the blue food!

(George Carlin reference)

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Even though the OP’s idea requires magic, not engineering, I thought I’d point out that 3-D printed food is an actual thing.

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Awesome This pen would resolve the world’s hunger problem – as long as everyone could afford a pen.

But why restrict such a great idea to food? Make it so that whatever you draw materializes. Everyone in the world could have everything they wanted – provided they could afford a pen.

How much do you think this pen will cost?
P.S. Welcome to the SDMB, eats_sushi.

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[Dr. Evil]One Hundred BILLION Dollars mmm-hmmm-muuuaahh hahahahahahaha[/Dr. Evil]

also what ioioio said, with the addition of … 'ware the ice cream

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I’ll bet old Sneelock could make it.

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“The strawberries taste like strawberries! The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!”

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I’m bad at drawrings. If I draw a bad looking apple, does it taste like a bad apple? Or maybe it kinda looks like a heart, so would it be like an apple-heart flavour?

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an idea could be to draw a food item and the closest match of that item can match a food item in a database what would teleport that item to the relative location of the pen drawing

example: draw an apple, closest match is an apple

apple from one area that is connected to the pen materializes at that lcoation it was drawn at

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But what if you want Reese’s peanut butter sticks, and you can’t draw them very well? You might end up with asparagus. Or you want a Diet Coke and you’re not very good with logos?

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It seems like, to me at least, that it would be easier to just write, or better yet, type the word for the food you want and have it appear.

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NM

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I like the idea more than a pen that draws inedible food.

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This idea penalizes the poor artist. “I didn’t want a shoe! I wanted a steak!”

Or the non-representational one. Pablo Picasso would wind up with mostly oddly-colored boxes and cardboard cutouts of things. Probably not edible.

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Search wikipedia for “Clyde Crashcup.”