printing machine for your home. cbs2's tracy carrasco with more on this culinary revolution. reporter: this 3-d printer
can a 3d printer print food, is simultaneous cooking and printing a multilayer cookie that looks more like a sculpture then dessert.
just as we watch tv on our phones and read books from tablets, robotics professor at the columbia university created machine lab wants to bring cutting-edge technology to the kitchen. software has entered every other field but in the kitchen. reporter: he
believes a 3-d home food printer will issue when a new generation of cooking at home. you have younger generations for which it seems natural to cook with software. reporter: he also says it could have major implications for nutrition and
health care, especially for people with food allergies. professor lipson says he has been testing out recipes in his classroom since 2005. the challenge was to find the right structures, shapes, consistency and temperatures. after creating a prototype
designed to hold multiple cartridges of food to print, the team reached out to manhattan chefs to test it out. one chef from the international culinary center says the technology is great for home cooking but he does not think this will become the norm. it
is something i would see in a restaurant. reporter: professor lipson believes the possibilities are endless. this technology will allow people to cook and print foods from across the globe. we might have access to new kinds of foods that we can't make
ourselves or by cash or we can
five. reporter: email me lunch may be sooner than you think. tracy carrasco, cbs2 news.
