Noodles on a button: The food company Barilla operates according to reports on a 3D printer for pasta. Whether true or not - the three-dimensional technology is about to jump on the mass market.

According to reports, Barilla aims to offer customers cartridges of dough that they can insert into a 3D printer to create their own pasta designs.
But the company declined to give further details, dismissing the claims as "speculation". It said that although the project had been going on for around two years, it was still "in a preliminary phase".
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, the US company 3D Systems unveiled a new range of food-creating printers specialising in sugar-based confectionary and chocolate edibles. Last year Natural Machines, a Spanish startup, revealed its own prototype, the Foodini, which it said combined "technology, food, art and design" and was capable of making edibles ranging from chocolate to pasta.