designerda:

3d foodprinting at cornell!

(via Thrilling Wonder Food)

looks like 3D food prints are not just chocolate anymore

smartercities:

IBM Smarter Cities

Safe neighborhoods. Quality schools. Affordable housing. Traffic that flows. It’s all possible. Making cities more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent isn’t only about overcoming the challenges they face. It also recognizes that cities provide us with some of the greatest opportunities for making the planet smarter, too.

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/topics/cities/20090309/index.shtml?&re=sph

wonder why half the cities mentioned are in the netherlands, as well as why architecture and urban planning, major shapers of cities, were not addressed head-on in this video.