Print your own chocolate

The Daily Mail reports.

The machine squirts out chocolate and, via computer instructions, allows the user to build any shape they like out of the food.

Liang Hao, part of the team at the University of Exeter, in the UK, who came up with the Choc Creator, has founded Choc Edge, a company that will sell the printer, Digital Trends writes.

Hao is aiming for sales of between 500 to 1 000 units in the next three years.

Hao told the BBC that chocolate printing, just like any other 3D printing technique, starts with a flat cross-section image, similar to that produced by ordinary printers turning out images, and then prints out chocolate layer by layer to create a 3D shape, without any moulding tools.

"We've improved and simplified the machine, so now it is really easy to use," said Hao.