We’ve watched 3D printers emerge to do all sorts of crazy things here at Giz, but chocolate? Now we’re talking! British scientists have modified tech normally used with plastic and metals, and it could ultimately let you create a custom creation on your computer, then pick it up at a chocolate shop ten minutes later.
To promote the chocolate-flavoured stout beer Sagres Preta Chocolate, every single page of the website was designed and made in chocolate, then photographed for the website. Looking at the website, I’d say they achieved their aim *salivates*.
To celebrate the Easter holiday, a gaggle of UK chemistry boffins subjected the legendary Cadbury Creme Egg to a handful of experiments in the name of science. SPOILER: many creme eggs were harmed while making this video.
Sure, eating a 7kg Kit Kat bar would probably kill you. But can you think of a more chocolate-and-wafery way to go? Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to size up my bathtub’s dimensions and buy bulk nougat.
Using a Cadbury’s chocolate dispenser you can pick up for around $US10, a loving boyfriend hacked it so it’d only release a bar when the recipient girlfriend’s Twitter friends tweeted a swearword.
Tcho, created by the founders of Wired magazine, is probably the nerdiest chocolate operation in the country. And, it so happens, the only bean-to-bar manufacturer in San Francisco. The Feast gave us a peak at their factory a couple of months ago, teasing that it could be controlled via iPhone.
Tcho’s high-tech chocolate factory – appropriately, created by founders of Wired magazine – is the very opposite of the bearded, artisanal hipster Willy Wonkas at Mast Bros in Brooklyn. They even use words like “beta” to describe test batches of chocolate.
