Soon, A 3D-Printed Device That Can Grow Food In A Week

Soon you may grow ingredients for a healthy meal right inside your kitchen within a span of a week, thanks to scientists who have developed a new 3D-peinted device that provides a novel way to produce food at home. The first prototype of the device called CellPod developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in the UK is already producing a harvest. The device resembles a design lamp and is ideal for keeping on a kitchen table. Urbanization and the environmental burden caused by agriculture are creating the need to develop new ways of producing food – CellPod is one of them. It may soon offer consumers a new and exciting way of producing local food in their own homes. The idea of the CellPod concept is based on growing the undifferentiated cells of plant rather than a whole plant. In other words, only the best parts of a plant are cultivated. These cells contain the plant’s entire genetic potential, so they are capable of producing the same healthy compounds as the whole plant.