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Custom dishware upon instant request! A fantasy? Almost a fantasy come true thanks to Leonardo Bonanni, Sam Sarcia, Subodh Paudel, and Ted Selker, who've created a "personal fabricator interface". Inside, the machine stores 150 food-grade, nontoxic acrylic wafers that can be heated and shaped by the machine into predefined plates, bowls and cups...and then reshaped back into wafers for compact storage. Watch and be amazed (and yes, we know this was announced a few years back, but this was the first time we'd seen video of it in action).