Save storage space by making your own dishes

Remember how amused you were when Rosie the Robot pushed a button and all the Jetsons' dirty dishes would disappear into a slot in the wall and appear a moment later completely clean and new? Those scenes and concepts must have had an impact on MIT graduate student Leonardo Bonanni, who designed a working dish maker so you'll never have to worry about storing your dishes again.

The DishMaker uses food-grade acrylic discs to press out bowls, cups, and plates. The dishes have a certain retro-'70s-party-cup feel to them, and they're not exactly the super-sized place settings you'll be using at your next holiday get-together. But for everyday use they might just hit the spot. The DishMaker is meant to be a space saver, but seeing as the device is about the size of a dishwasher, you might actually be losing kitchen space once it's installed. And even though it's a recycling system, it doesn't clean the bits of Brussels sprouts and spaghetti sauce you leave behind, so the dishes still need to be washed before being reclaimed by the DishMaker. Bonanni hopes to address this failing in a future design by combining the two appliances. Now if someone would invent a method for replicating food to fill those dishes, I'd be set. — Stephen Schleicher

Comments

By Isotek at 12:52 AM ON 09/13/07

Well, until we get those snazzy Star Trek Replicators that can just create the stuff out of quantum entangled substances.

By Isotek at 12:52 AM ON 09/13/07

Well, until we get those snazzy Star Trek Replicators that can just create the stuff out of quantum entangled substances.

By Isotek at 12:53 AM ON 09/13/07

Well, until we get those snazzy Star Trek Replicators that can just create the stuff out of quantum entangled substances.

By soundasleep at 7:31 AM ON 09/14/07

Regardless of Star Trek's astonishing levels of techno-babble, they've proved remarkably prophetic .....

Replicating food will totally happen.

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Save storage space by making your own dishes