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RFID stickers could signal contaminated food

MIT researchers have found a way to check many items instantly, non-invasively, and from a distance—using the RFID tags.
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Where does your food really come from?

On the BBC’s Follow the Food, OpenAg head Caleb Harper and other experts discuss how technology is transforming our food systems.
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Paranoid about tainted lettuce? There could be an app for that one day

Fadel Adib talks to CBS about a project from the Signal Kinetics group that aims to democratize food quality and safety testing.
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RFIQ in the News

News coverage of the RFIQ project
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Transformative Appetite

We developed a concept of transformative appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch) can t…
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RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…
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Fake meat, served six ways

We now have more challenging choices to make than simply whether to be vegan, pescatarian or carnivore, thanks to technology.
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MIT OpenAg releases the Personal Food Computer 3.0, a STEM-friendly collaboration with educators

An active and passionate community of over 2,500 people spread across 62 countries have rallied around the open source platform.
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Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination.
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Byte-sized: how tech is revolutionizing food production

"Food computers" can tell us everything we need to know about what we grow and eat.
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Build a Personal Food Computer

OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we believ…
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Gastronomy in the 21st century

It’s Thanksgiving season again, and the double shadow on our great American food holiday is feast and famine, both. A bounteous industrial …
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How to Train Your DragonBot: Socially Assistive Robots for Teaching Children About Nutrition Through Play

E Short, K Swift-Spong, J Greczek, A Ramachandran, A Litoiu, E Grigore, D Feil- Seifer, S Shuster, JJ Lee, et al (2014). "How to Train Your DragonBot: Socially Assistive Robots for Teaching Children About Nutrition Through Play." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Edinburgh, UK).
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Artisanal food microbiology

Johnson, Arielle J. "Artisanal food microbiology." Nature microbiology 1 (2016): 16039.
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This computer will grow your food in the future

Caleb Harper's TED Talk
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These food computers use AI to make “climate recipes” for the best-tasting crops

The tech-filled greenhouses can adjust growing conditions over and over again until they find the combinations
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Researchers engineer shape-shifting noodles

Sheets of gelatin transform into 3-D shapes when dunked in water; could save food shipping costs.
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The High-Tech Future of Farming

Caleb Harper is interviewed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival.