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From petri dish to pub menu: the race to produce a delicious animal-free burger is under way

From petri dish to pub menu: the race to produce a delicious animal-free burger is under way

Over a decade ago, the world’s first lab-grown burger was eaten, in London. It was, according to the food critics who tried it, ‘close’ in ‘mouth feel’ to being the real thing, but it needed a little more salt and pepper, and it wasn’t very ‘juicy’.

Are smart glasses the future?

Are smart glasses the future?

The dream of ‘smart glasses’ died its first death on April 28th 2013, when the US technology evangelist, influencer and ‘personality’, Robert Scoble, shared a photograph he’d taken of himself, in the shower, all pink and sudsy.