TECH
The Intergalactic
Space Chronicle
Gingerbread Aircars
By M.B. Alexander
If crumbs are raining upon your head and white icing drops fall on your shoulders like sugary bird poo from the sky, it is not a bird bio-engineered to expel sugar doo-doo, contrary to popular belief. It is, however, a sign of good fortune indeed. For it means that it must be that time of year. The time when Christmas cheer and technology merge in the most magical and unnecessary ways.
Bake-Bots, the small robots that bake the most elaborate baked goods via food printing, (not to be confused with Baked-bots: the edible robots), have truly outdone themselves this year! When they created a gingerbread skyscraper last year, smack in the middle of Times Square, I couldn’t fathom how they would ever top that.
But this year they came back with a bang and swoosh, mass-producing an array of functioning gingerbread aircars. Seeing that gingerbread is not a very sustainable material, in the long run, you would be buying an aircar that would break to pieces fairly fast.
To resolve this conundrum elegantly, Bake-Bots have created massive mug pools of coffee, chai, hot cocoa, and tea. So that once you’ve had your festive joyride you can crash it into something tasty and eat it, like the cookie it was always meant to be.
Oh, the indecency of it! The waste of it all! Is it terrible that I already bought one for my family? What can I say, nothing lasts forever, but giving my family a good experience will stick with me and them for a long while. That is well worth the inevitable cookie crumbles.