Concept pancake printer uses facial recognition to cook your portrait

Forget selfies burnt into toast and marshmallows printed with your portrait, the next trend will be to have your face immortalised on a pancake. A research and design team has created a concept 3D printer that combines facial recognition with a hot plate and layers of batter to create complex images. And the printing has the capability to be perfectly timed using algorithms so the lighter and darker tones of the face are captured, and cooked, with precision. The idea was developed by research and innovation experts at Bristol-based Kinneir Dufort. It uses Computer Numerical Control (CNC) technology to convert online designs into numbers, similar to coordinates on a graph.