A restaurant in Chicago has started using an inkjet printer in the kitchen, and not just to print up menus. Homaro Cantu, the executive chef at Moto, is a self-taught engineer in addition to being a chef, and he uses food based "inks" to print images onto edible paper. The inks are made out of things like carrots and potatoes, and the printed sheets can be flavored in any number of ways. For example, the menu itself is edible. Want to taste the filet mignon? Just rip out that picture of a cow and eat it. While I'm all for technological advances in the kitchen, I can't imagine wanting to eat paper that tastes like real food when I could just as easily eat, you know, real food. But I'm sure it's interesting as a novelty at least, so if you're in Chicago and feel like eating a burger that you could keep in your wallet go ahead and stop on by. — Adam Frucci

First Science, via New Launches