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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bones and Kirk eating strange colored food cubes in Star Trek - Paramount The replicators are perhaps the most miraculous ...

Replicators can create anything by rearranging atoms, but it can’t make new matter. That’s against the laws of physics. During more prosperous eras, there were matter mixtures developed and used ...

For those unfamiliar with the replicator in Star Trek, it is a futuristic device that can produce any type of food or drink based on a voice command (such as when Patrick Stewart’s Jean Luc Picard ...

A company called Natural Machines has come up with a 3D printer called Foodini, which, like the "Star Trek" replicator, creates edible shapes layer by layer. Picture Enterprise Captain Picard ordering ...