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Sweet Success for Digital Economy researchers


07 July 2011

Digital Economy Programme logoA team from Exeter University are combining chocolate with digital technology in a Digital Economy Programme funded 'Research in the Wild' project that aims to take a significant step towards collective user design in creating physical products. The project will engage large numbers of internet users to collaborate together on-line to co-design chocolate products which will then be manufactured using a 3D 'chocolate printer'.

The story has caught the eye of BBC News, The Engineer, and CBBC Newsround.

Further information is available here.