Make Meals in Just 30 Seconds With This Wonder Machine

One of the signs that tell you we're in the Digital Age is the arrival of innovative devices that allow you to accomplish certain tasks in a jiffy.

Take The Genie, for example. It's one app-controlled food maker that can whip up a dish of your choice all within 30 seconds. Its astounding capabilities have earned it comparisons to Star Trek's "replicator" device.

"The Genie, similar in size and appearance to a coffee maker, can produce an unlimited variety of meals using pods, that contain natural dehydrated ingredients. So whether salty or sweet, an appetizer or a dessert, the device can create the food you crave in 30 seconds," Reuters reported.

"Developed by Israeli entrepreneurs Ayelet Carasso and Doron Marco from White Innovation company, the device uses a mobile app to operate," the news source added.

The ingredients are pre-assembled in 140-gram portions and stored in recyclable pods, which Digital Trends described as similar in appearance to small ice cream tubs. The pods contain ingredients that are reportedly natural and preservative-free and have undergone a dehydration process. The shelf life of the ingredients is between 1-2 years.

"The dish can be anything, it can be a meal like chicken with rice, like couscous with vegetable or an amazing Ramen or even a chocolate soufflé or any other desert that you want," Carasso said.

"At the push of a button on Genie's mobile application, the device begins mixing, shaking and adding any required liquids from tubes attached to the back of the compact machine which bakes or cooks the desired dish at the appropriate temperature," Reuters described.

The creators of the device said that the innovative product was conceived after finding it difficult to locate restaurants that could deliver food to their office late at night.

The Genie's creators don't consider the device as a replacement to conventional dining, but will reportedly "challenge chefs to produce a good meal in a pod, or small container." Currently, they are already thinking of other ways to diversify the machine's app's capabilities and add more features.

"Eventually, Genie will know your microbiome and will prepare the pod for you, just for you and you will eat better, even tastier and healthier," Marco said.

The creators also said that The Genie may be helpful in combating hunger in various parts of the world.

""In our world, we are getting fat and we are throwing away a lot of food, in their world, they don't have any food. So if you use Genie, you can distribute the food better, you can have the shelf life much longer without the preservatives, give the people better food for them," Marco explained, as noted by iDigitalTimes.

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