Brave New Snacktime: Edible Packaging, Breathable Caffeine
By Kara Miller
Harvard professor David Edwards has been known as a bit of a mad scientist — a Willy Wonka — who generates fascinating, amazing, and sometimes strange inventions.
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The Aeroshot, a puff of inhalable caffeine, comes in a small tube.
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Most recently, he has rolled out the Aeroshot: inhalable caffeine and vitamins. And he is currently at work on WikiCells, a natural shell which he hopes will replace ubiquitous plastic food packaging. How about drinking your individually-wrapped orange drink and then, instead of throwing away the container, you just eat it?
We ask Edwards about his inventions.
Guests:
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David Edwards, biomedical engineering professor, Harvard; Founder, director, Le Laboratoire (Paris)
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As a radio host, Kara Miller has interviewed thinkers from E.J. Dionne to Howard Gardner, Deepak Chopra to Lani Guinier. She is a panelist on WGBH-TV's "Beat the Press," as well as an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The National Journal, The Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, and The International Herald Tribune.
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