万花筒 2011-04-27&04-29 巧克力3D打印机

 David Carr was tired of traditional goodies associated with Easter. So, he built a machine to personalize his chocolate. Carr along with his colleagues at the MIT media Lab built the "Eat your Face" machine, a new type of 3D printer that works for chocolate. 

 

A computer takes that model of your face, actually instructs that machine to cover away a block of chocolate and leave the part of chocolate that is your face when all is sudden done. That's what you have left. 

 

Normally, 3D printers use plastics or silicon¹ to fabricate models on circuit boards. Carr wanted to prove that he can use chocolate instead, and creates something to rival the chocolate bunnies.

 

Akund and food are really interesting because they enable us to sort of bring in other senses besides just looking and touching². And you know, we have things like tasting. And there are just some really need proprieties³ like you can eat when you're done.(yeah). That's always really exciting.

 

But Carr had a problem. While most people have no issues biting off the ear of a chocolate bunny. Eating their own face hasn't proved this popular.

 

That's the problem. No one eats their face, right. I mean, that's actually really interesting tension in this work,cause you have this sort of food, that's stock(which is dark) of chocolate, and a lot of people really want to eat, but their faces are on it. 

 

Carr admits that 'Eat your face' machine most likely won't make it to many shopping malls. But he says the experiment, reaffirm his belief that personal fabrication is increasingly going to make its way into our lives. 

 

I think that's really magic of sort of fabrication on your desktop⁴, making things on your desktop. It's this idea that everything can be unique and personalized to you, rather than just being stamped out from some malls, from a big factory. 

 

Accessibility to 3D printing technology and its growing popularity will allow the few people who would like to eat their own face to do so soon, but probably not time for Easter. 

1 silicon   

n.硅(旧名矽)

参考例句：

• This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
• A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。

2 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。

3 proprieties   

n.礼仪，礼节；礼貌( propriety的名词复数 )；规矩；正当；合适

参考例句：

• "Let us not forget the proprieties due. "咱们别忘了礼法。 来自英汉文学 - 败坏赫德莱堡
• Be careful to observe the proprieties. 注意遵守礼仪。 来自辞典例句

4 desktop   

n.桌面管理系统程序；台式

参考例句：

• My computer is a desktop computer of excellent quality.我的计算机是品质卓越的台式计算机。
• Do you know which one is better,a laptop or a desktop?你知道哪一种更好，笔记本还是台式机？