Future Appliance is Recycling Dishes?

I came across this video that shows what plain old-fashion ingenuity can do. The guy from MIT (surprise) thought of everything that a person might need and tried to make a machine that could do it all. This is obviously a prototype but the concept is sound.

The principle is to ‘make’ the pates on-demand to any shape with a maximum depth of five inches. By using plastics with a memory they can then be returned to they’re original shape and stored easily.

This device is space-saving too as cupboards full of plates are now stored as flat discs within the unit itself.

He also states that there is no reason you couldn’t make any shape with it and it may be possible to download designs from the internet and make a new plate, for a special occasion perhaps.