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RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...
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RFID stickers could signal contaminated food

MIT researchers have found a way to check many items instantly, non-invasively, and from a distance—using the RFID tags.
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Signal Kinetics

Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
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Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination.
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Byte-sized: how tech is revolutionizing food production

"Food computers" can tell us everything we need to know about what we grow and eat.
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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Build a Personal Food Computer

OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we beli...
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
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Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
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Flavor, Environment, and the Phenome

The lush, sweet-acid headiness of an excellent peach, a dark and bitter-tinged escarole, a spicy and perfumed basil leaf: flavor is a bui...
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Food for Space

Food in space has moved beyond that which is simply developed down on Earth for space purposes. A new food culture will emerge as a resul...
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Cookbook for Zero Gravity

The human experience of food extends far beyond that of mere nourishment. Debriefs with astronauts tell us that food is a key c...
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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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Fake meat, served six ways

By Joi ItoAround the time I turned 40, I decided to address the trifecta of concerns I had about climate change, animal rights, and ...
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Transformative Appetite

We developed a concept of transformative appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch) can...
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Gastronomy in the 21st century

It’s Thanksgiving season again, and the double shadow on our great American food holiday is feast and famine, both. A bounteous industria...
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How to Train Your DragonBot: Socially Assistive Robots for Teaching Children About Nutrition Through Play

E Short, K Swift-Spong, J Greczek, A Ramachandran, A Litoiu, E Grigore, D Feil- Seifer, S Shuster, JJ Lee, et al (2014). "How to Train Your DragonBot: Socially Assistive Robots for Teaching Children About Nutrition Through Play." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Edinburgh, UK).
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Artisanal food microbiology

Johnson, Arielle J. "Artisanal food microbiology." Nature microbiology 1 (2016): 16039.
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This computer will grow your food in the future

Caleb Harper's TED Talk
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These food computers use AI to make “climate recipes” for the best-tasting crops

The tech-filled greenhouses can adjust growing conditions over and over again until they find the combinations
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Researchers engineer shape-shifting noodles

Sheets of gelatin transform into 3-D shapes when dunked in water; could save food shipping costs.
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The High-Tech Future of Farming

Caleb Harper is interviewed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival.