Looking through the lens of an interaction and material designer, I often ask myself several questions about food: can food see, hear, sense, evolve, compute, think and communicate? Can its structure be encoded, and can its behaviors and transformations be programmed? Can food become an active interface? Imagine the following examples: Art by Maren Karlson. Additional images courtesy of Morphing Matter Lab. An edible timer: pasta that transforms from a flat object to a 3D form when it is cooked.
