{"id":139616,"date":"2022-05-19T22:03:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T03:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/holographic-chocolates-look-as-beautiful-as-they-taste"},"modified":"2022-05-19T22:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T03:03:38","slug":"holographic-chocolates-look-as-beautiful-as-they-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/holographic-chocolates-look-as-beautiful-as-they-taste","title":{"rendered":"Holographic Chocolates Look As Beautiful As They Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/holographic-chocolates-look-as-beautiful-as-they-taste.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2014<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For most of us, even one bite of chocolate is enough to send our taste buds into ecstasy. Now, scientists have concocted a process to make these dark, dulcet morsels look as decadent as they taste.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland-based company Morphotonix has given traditional Swiss chocolate-making a colorful twist: It\u2019s devised a method to imprint shiny holograms onto the sweet surfaces \u2014 sans harmful additives. Which means when you tilt the goodies from side to side, rainbow stars and swirly patterns on the chocolate\u2019s surface dance and shimmer in the light.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, holograms are laser-imprinted onto a flat, metallic surface such as aluminum; the rainbow-colored hologram appears when light hits the surface at a certain angle (Think of the security sticker on the back of your credit card). But aluminum-drenched chocolate doesn\u2019t sound very appetizing, so confectioners pour the chocolate into a mold etched with a patchwork of minuscule bumps, or microstructures, that bend light at specific angles \u2014 embedding a hologram directly onto its surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2014 For most of us, even one bite of chocolate is enough to send our taste buds into ecstasy. Now, scientists have concocted a process to make these dark, dulcet morsels look as decadent as they taste. Switzerland-based company Morphotonix has given traditional Swiss chocolate-making a colorful twist: It\u2019s devised a method to imprint [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1923,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holograms","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}