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cis could blend a very special drug into an ice enfold something soft, cold or hot. He named it cream flavor, the inventor said sure, why not. WikiPearl. The result was champagne-flavored ice cream The first part of its name, Wiki, refers to that with a dose of Viagra. Champagne was their fluid online collaboration where we can edit and recommendation, Francis told me. “We tried update in the blink of an eye. Edwards’s hope oyster, but it wasn’t that tasty.” is that his inventions can be a real-world wiki I asked the inventor if he tried the product, through conversations and through in-person and he answered quickly: no. He also wouldn’t feedback. Along with technological advanceelaborate on the celebrity, or where he got the ments, the WikiPearl applications will be prescription, but I can only assume it was a pushed along an endless spectrum, from dairy rousing success. Unfortunately there are no to juices, cocktails, and even soups. plans to market the product. Shaped like a small orb, a WikiPearl is comInspired by the vast imagination of Mr. Deposed of two parts: the inner ‘heart’, the food licious, Spanish or beverage, and the physicist Manuel ‘skin’, a natural bioLinares created a degradable covering tutti frutti–flavored formed from a proice cream dubbed tective electrostatic ‘Xamaleón’ that gel made of food transitions from particles, nutritive light blue to pinkish ions, and a polysacpurple as you lick charide. The exteyour way through rior maintains its the treat. To create strength and holds the effect, Linares the contents even as sprays his ice cream the center begins to with a scientific thaw. Yogurt makmist that he refers ers Stonyfield Farms to as his ‘love elixir’. are currently using What’s in the mist the method to sell is secret, but what’s yogurt at Whole been reported in Foods in the Bosscience journals is ton area, and there that temperature are plans to roll out Wikipearls. Photo by Phase One Photography. and acids in the huto the Northeast man mouth trigger this fall. Eventually, the color shift. The physicist–turned–cook has products using this technology would no longer submitted a patent for his invention, and in the need actual throwaway packaging. meantime he is working on his next science Edwards is fiddling with all kinds of foodexperiment. delivery systems and is planning to make them Have any plans to hit Spain this fall? Linares’ available to the public at his newest venture, shop, IceXperience, has locations in Calella de The Lab Cambridge. Part museum, event space, Mar, Barcelona, and Blanes, Girona. café, store, and classroom, all rolled into one really cool innovation experience, The Lab David Edwards, materials scientist, Harvard Cambridge is slated to open late October 2014. professor, and author of The Lab: Creativity and Modeled on his first location, Le Laboratoire, Culture, envisions a future where artistic and or The Lab Paris, which was opened seven years scientific collaborations take place out in the ago, the only question you might have is: why open for everyone to see. He is also the man did he wait so long? behind ice cream you can hold in your hand, or stash in your purse for later. His idea was I suppose endless options aren’t a bad thing, simple, to make edible packaging that could especially when we’re talking ice cream. 32 SciArt in America October 2014