Pop Culture Buddhas: Now You Can Meditate To Your Favorite Superheroes and Villains

Buddha’s appearance as a jolly fat man in the “Laughing Buddha” statue is probably his best-known – and now, he‘s available in a variety of pop culture icon flavors! Chris Milnes is the Etsy artist behind the “Zen” line of 3D-printed sculptures of Buddha whose heads have been replaced with those of popular characters.

There’s everything from Zen Batman to Zen Optimus Prime (because robots should also know that desire is suffering). And you wouldn’t believe the variety of Star Wars characters present! Zen Groot from the Guardians of the Galaxy is probably the most fitting character here, though you will have to replace “om” with “groot”.

More info: etsy.com (h/t: lostateminor )

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Martynas Klimas

Writes like a mad dervish, rolls to dodge responsibility, might have bitten the Moon once.

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3D-Printed Snack That Grows Its Own Mushroom Filling

3D printing is surely going to revolutionize the art of getting things and knickknacks you don’t really need. But a plucky young food and concept designer named Chloé Rutzerveld wants to see a 3D printed snack that grows before you eat it. Called Edible Growth, i t’s still a concept, but the idea is to print an individually designed shell that contains spores, yeast and seeds. After five days, the mushrooms and plants mature, and yeast fermentation turns the solid insides liquid. And here you go, a healthy snack. You’re very literally eating a garden.

“Because at this point, companies only succeeded in printing sugar sculptures, chocolate and other unhealthy sweets, transforming product A in product A with a different shape.” Clara writes on her website. “My aim was to use this new food technology in a useful way to create natural, healthy, sustainable and nutrient rich food that can not be made with traditional production methods and contributes to our and the environments wellbeing.” . She also agrees that this is just a very early concept and the true future of 3D printed food – one that would also save on transportation costs – is still quite far away.

Though I’m sure we can already start printing potato chips. None of us would notice the difference.

More info: chloerutzerveld.com