“Three pieces of KPC please and I’ll have potato and gravy as well.” That might well be the order at the KFC drive-through in the future. KFC are developing a method of printing chicken nuggets that taste like? Yes real chicken nuggets. And it will have the usual 11 herbs and spices! According to a statement from KFC, "The idea of crafting the meat of the future” arose among partners in response to the growing popularity of a healthy lifestyle and nutrition." To produce this prodect KFC is collaborating with 3D Bioprinting Solutions, a firm in Moscow that uses "additive bioprinting technology using chicken cells and plant material, allowing it to reproduce the taste and texture of chicken
The BBC website reports that researchers have developed a tiny wireless camera that is light enough to be carried by live beetles. The team at the University of Washington in the US drew inspiration from the insects to create its low-powered camera system. Its beetle-cam can stream up to five frames per second of low-resolution, black and white footage to a nearby smartphone. The research was published in the Science Robotics journal. The entire camera rig weighs just 250 milligrams, which is about a tenth of the weight of a playing card. While the sensor itself is low resolution, capturing just 160 by 120 pixel images, it is mounted on a mechanical arm that can shift from side to side. That
