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Article Research

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.

via TechCrunch · Nov. 14, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#food #technology #wellbeing
Article Research

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.

via BBC · May 28, 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#food #technology
Article Research

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.

via CBS This Morning · Feb. 7, 2019
in Signal Kinetics
#food #health #technology
Post Research

RFIQ in the News

News coverage of the RFIQ project

Feb. 7, 2019
in Signal Kinetics
#artificial intelligence #food #sensors +1 more
Project Research

Transformative Appetite

We developed a concept of transformative appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch) can t…

Wen Wang · Lining Yao +2 more
#design #food
Project Research

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…

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Unsoo Ha +2 more
#artificial intelligence #food #health +8 more
Article Research

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.

via Wired · July 2, 2018
in Director's Office
#agriculture #environment #food +3 more
Article Research

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.

via MOLD · Oct. 24, 2018
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food #technology
Article Research

Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination.

via MIT News · Nov. 14, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#food #technology #wellbeing
Article Research

Byte-sized: how tech is revolutionizing food production

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

via The Irish Times · Nov. 1, 2018
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food #technology +1 more
Post Research

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…

April 4, 2017
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #data #environment +4 more
Article Research

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 …

via Radio Open Source · Nov. 16, 2017
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food
Publication Research

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).

Proceedings, Oct. 2014
in Personal Robots
#food #health #human-machine interaction +2 more
Publication Research

Artisanal food microbiology

Johnson, Arielle J. "Artisanal food microbiology." Nature microbiology 1 (2016): 16039.

Academic Paper, March 2016
in Director's Fellows
#food
Post Research

This computer will grow your food in the future

Caleb Harper's TED Talk

March 29, 2016
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food
Article Research

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

via Fast Company · June 9, 2017
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#food
Article Research

Researchers engineer shape-shifting noodles

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

May 25, 2017
in Tangible Media
#food
Article Research

The High-Tech Future of Farming

Caleb Harper is interviewed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival.

via The Atlantic · Dec. 12, 2016
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food #open source

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