Make a Dish on Demand
Ever worried about not having enough crockery when unexpected guests arrive? You will never have that problem with the invention of MIT grad student Leonardo Bonnanni. “The dishmaker frees space in the dish cabinets and reduces landfill trash. The dishes are made from food-grade, nontoxic acrylic wafers, which are shaped into cups, bowls and plates when heated, then resume their original wafer shape when they are reheated and pressed. Using less energy than factories use to make them and can produce up 150 items. With the prototype being the size of a current dishwasher it recycles a thousand times without consuming the energy that goes into a single-use ceramic dish. What are the implications of something like this?

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