On the Menu | Doraemon’s gadgets in real life? Give us the Anywhere Door, Super Gourmet Spice – they would add flavour to life
- From Memory Bread to the Anywhere Door, the wonderful, resourceful world of the futuristic cartoon robot cat Doraemon is full of items you wish were real
- I asked a few friends in the food industry what they would invent to make their life and work infinitely better – one suggested a mini me to work in the kitchen
I am currently reading the book All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai, a story that begins when one man’s invention – capable of generating an infinite amount of clean energy – changed the world.
The protagonist, Tom, describes the multitude of ways that life has been transformed since, with vignettes of life in the future that feel reminiscent of sci-fi cartoon The Jetsons.
Among the life improvements, there is a gadget called a food synthesiser – “a system [that] outputs whatever meal you feel like from a nutrient gel mixed with colour, flavour and texture protocols … it’s indistinguishable from what you think of as real food, except that it’s uniquely gauged to your tongue’s sensory receptors so it tastes and feels ideal every time”.
In Tom’s world, there are no browning avocados or mouldy sourdough – only perfection.
