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Hershey’s and 3DSystems to Offer 3D Printers for Chocolate

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Chocolate. It may arguably be better than bacon. And today we have some important chocolate news. Hershey has just announced a partnership with 3DSystems to produce a 3D printer that prints in chocolate. Imagine chocolate shaped like anything, maybe even with a hollow caramel maze inside or something.
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This isn’t 3DSystems first foray into printing candy – they showed off some amazing printers that could output both sugar and chocolate candy models at the recent 2014 CES:

We don’t know when they will have their new Willy Wonka device ready or how much it might cost, but the ChefJet will sell for less than $5,000 and the ChefJet will go for less than $10,000. No word on the Hershey’s version though. You guys just feel free to throw everything you have at this project. Humanity is counting on you.

I can’t wait for finely detailed chocolate Star Trek starships to start rolling out of this machine. The possibilities are endless.

[via Geekologie]

Butterfinger Cups Add Peanut Butter for Super Bowl

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Taste buds are being tantalized via a new eatable that Nestle is planning to bring to supermarket shelves. The usual fare consisting of Butterfinger Cups is to arrive in the form of Peanut Butter...
    






Choc Edge 3D Printer Prints Edible Chocolate Sculptures

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3D Chocolate Printer

Food printers aren’t just a figment of your imagination anymore. Although there’s still a long way to go before their commercial release, several developers already have them in the works. The latest of these is the Choc Edge 3D printer which, as its name suggests, prints patterns, sculptures, and whatever you want it to using chocolate.

Pretty sweet, huh? And in more ways than one. Aside from 3D creations, the Choc Edge can also be used to create 2D chocolate designs and patterns on cakes and pastries, which chefs currently make by using pipettes.

In 3D chocolate printing, chocolate is melted, tempered and deposited into 2D cross-section on a substrate like a printer printing a 2D image onto paper. The substrate is then lowered by a layer thickness and the deposition process repeats layer-by-layer to form a solid 3D chocolate product that is defined by a 3D computer design.

The Choc Edge wasn’t exactly made for hobbyists and chocolate lovers as the £2,888 (about $4743) price tag means it’s more for chocolatiers and chefs who can afford the machine and work it into their ROIs.

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Cocoa Couture Chocolate Dress

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Cocoa Couture Chocolate Dress
Eating way too much chocolate will ensure that you can’t fit into any of your best dresses. A dress made from chocolate is a better idea. Why? You will be able to squeeze into it, look fabulous, and then start gnawing on it once the night is through. This strapless dress, known as Eternal Diamond was [...]
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Chocolate Anatomy: Organs Never Tasted This Sweet

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Organ Chocolate

Care to take a bite out of an ear or a heart, or maybe even a pair of lungs? We’re not talking about actual human organs, of course, because that’s just wrong. Rather, we’re talking about the unusually-shaped chocolate that Visual Anatomy has whipped up, just in time for Halloween.

There are about 20 different chocolate body parts to choose from. Take your pick from brains to livers and bones to skulls molded from milk and white chocolate.

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There are a bunch of other organs in the mix that are pretty hard to identify (but maybe that’s because biology is one of my worst subjects ever.) A box of sixteen pieces of anatomical sweets is priced at $30.95.

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Chocolates Shaped Like Organs

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Chocolates Shaped Like Organs
Visual Anatomy is a company that’s selling edible anatomy. They’re chocolates shaped like different body parts, organs, limbs, etc. There are over 20 shapes to choose from, like a brain, ear, hand, heart, vertebra, pancreas, liver… even a colon! Yeah, it’s basically the only way you can eat a butt and it not taste like [...]
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Google teases Android 4.4 as ‘KitKat,’ passes one billion Android activations (video)

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Google's next Android version to be named Kit Kat

After "a whirlwind trip to Asia" visiting Android partners, Google's SVP Sundar Pichai has just confirmed -- by way of the above photo -- that the next version of his mobile OS is called KitKat aka Android 4.4. The exec shared this geeky nugget on both Google+ and Twitter, while his company has updated the Android developer site with a page chronicling Android's milestones so far. Details are light at the moment, and Google teases its upcoming release with just the following line:

"It's our goal with Android KitKat to make an amazing Android experience available for everybody."

Pichai also announced that there are now over one billion Android device activations, surpassing the 900 million mark back in May this year. This is well ahead of the end-of-year target that Chairman Eric Schmidt predicted back in April. Just to recap, here are all the previous dessert-based names that contributed to these figures: Cupcake (1.5), Donut (1.6), Eclair (2.0), Froyo (2.2), Gingerbread (2.3), Honeycomb (3.0), Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0), and Jelly Bean (4.1-4.3). Naturally, it's "K" after "J" now. More after the break (pun intended).

Update: We've added Nestle's wacky promo video as well.

Update 2: Go ahead and grab the kids, because you'll now find a short clip of the KitKat statue's unveiling. So... is anyone gonna break off a piece of that, or what?

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Source: Google+, @SundarPichai (Twitter), Google, BBC

Feed Me All The Nutella Recipes

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Feed Me All The Nutella Recipes
Nutella. It came out of nowhere (okay, Italy is somewhere) and took the chocolate-loving world by storm. Sure the right way to enjoy it is with your greedy little fingers, but in case you want to branch out from that, there’s something good coming your way. Nutella: The 30 Best Recipes by Ferraro will help [...]
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Mug With Built In Chocolate Milk Mixer

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Chocolate milk: the dairy product of the gods. Oh, plus ice cream. But we’re not here to talk about ice cream! We’re here to stick it to the man, wasting company time on the internet talk about this chocolate milk mixer. Now I know what you’re thinking and sure, your hand and a spoon could be considered a chocolate milk mixer. AN INFERIOR ONE, THAT IS. This mug has got a built in mixer that’s activated by the touch of your thumb. Plus it moos as it mixes. Does your hand and spoon combo moo? Because if it does, you need help! Damn, I got you. I got you GOOD.