They say pizza pie is the female parent of invention . Well , perhaps they do n’t , but they should . Since the seventies , a surprising number of technical innovations have centered , in some way , on pizza . From pizza pie robot to pizza pie menus that can read your mind , here are some of the biggest pizza pie inventions and innovations of the last 40 years :
1974:The First Pizza Ordered by a Computer
In ' 74 , the Artificial Language Laboratory at Michigan State created a speak reckoner . For its first televised test run , the team of developers engage Donald Sherman , whose speech was limited by a neurological disorder , to try out the automobile . Sutherland used the computer to order a pizza . He called Domino ’s first , but when the computer took too longsighted to sound out words , Domino ’s hung up . He finally got through to Mr. Mike ’s Pizza , and successfully ordered a pizza pie with pepperoni , mushroom-shaped cloud , ham , and sausage balloon .
1987:ShowBiz Pizza’s “Showscan” Films
When movie maker Douglas Trumbull ( special essence supervisor of2001 : A Space OdysseyandBlade Runner ) manufacture the Showscan film – which project films at 60 frames per second rather than the customary 24 – he thought it would revolutionize the film industry . But movie maker and theater owner balked at the price . So Trumbull wrench to an improbable ally : Bob Brock , owner of the ShowBiz Pizza franchise . Brock was so excited about the estimation , he set up a test theater at his Fairfax ShowBiz location , erecting a seventeen foot high projection screen and jut out “ New Magic , ” a poor movie which explained the benefits of the new technology . Though the Showscan cinema never caught on ( outside of ShowBiz Pizza ) it did have the endorsement of Roger Ebert , who call it , “ incomparably more naturalistic than anything I had ever consider before on a movie screen . ''
1991: The Pizzabot
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon make a sophisticated voice activated robot with a single role : to make pizza pie . The robot had a single arm , and would construct pizzas using element bins at a build - in workstation . It could recognize a few of import words like " pepperoni " and " mushrooms . " Although it was originally developed to assist physically disabled people operate pizza pie franchises , it was ultimately buy by a Pittsburgh pizza dealership , called Fox ’s Pizza Dens , and lived a unretentive life as a novelty enactment at their restaurants .
1991: Pizza 911
’ 91 was a big year for pizza pie creation . The same year scientists were developing the pizzabot , Domino ’s teamed up with AT&T to bring customers a unexampled way of life to order pizza pie . The New York Times called it " The Pizza Version of dial 911 . " For the first time , Domino ’s client across the rural area could call a undivided phone phone number , and a computing machine would automatically match them up with the Domino ’s position closest to them . Instead of looking up local Domino ’s locations in the chickenhearted page , customers could just memorize one sluttish phone turn , and order Domino ’s anywhere they went . There were only a few job . The first was that the " easy " number - 950 - 1430 - was not so easy to remember . Domino ’s advertising White House came up with a useful mnemonic , however , where " 9 to 5 " constitute the work day ; " 0 " was the duration of time you want to make , and " 1430 " was the " 1 " " 4 " " 30 - minute speech . " The other problem was that when too many people called the bit at once , the computer sometimes got overwhelmed , and started forwarding customers to random locations - the electronic computer ’s way of trying to “ protect itself from a uneasy dislocation , ” concord to Daniel F. Gonos , Domino ’s manager of telecommunications .
1994: The First Pizza Ordered Online
accord to a 2013 Tweet by Pizza Hut , the first ever online purchase was a Pizza Hut pizza . Though there is evidence that a copy of Sting ’s album “ Ten Summoner ’s Tales ” may have actually been the first detail betray via cyberspace , it ’s certainly true that Pizza Hut was the first business to set up a viable on-line ordering organization . Setting up a test site for Santa Cruz residents – and calling the experiment “ The Santa Cruz Operation ” – the naive website allowed customers to insert their computer address and specify their ordering . A replica of the original order var. can be foundhere .
2000: The Pizza Button
Another innovation geared towards making it even light to consecrate a pizza . In the former goose egg , developer were work on bringing “ internet convenience ” – lightweight , low-priced computers equipped with the internet , but not much else – to consumer . To make these machine easygoing to use , many fall with mill - set mathematical function cay : clitoris to impart up e-mail , address books , and other applications . The first of these consumer - favorable computer to hit the market , according to a 2000New York Timesarticle , was the “ i - opener , ” which , in summation to the established function keys , came with a tonality for pizza pie delivery . Simply press the pizza headstone , and an order form would bulge up for a local pizzeria .
2013: 3D Printed Pizza
NASA commissioned the Systems Materials and Research Corporation to make a food pressman for astronauts . In declivity of 2013 , at the SXSW Eco , they unveiled their image : a pizza pressman . The machine made pizza pie out of unconventional ingredients : ketchup for sauce , and pick cheese alternatively of mozzarella . According to pizza pie printing machine engineer Anjan Contractor , after laying out the ingredient and literally spraying on flavor , feel , and micronutrients , the pizza pie takes only 70 moment to fudge .
Check out the pizza printing machine in activeness above .
2014: The Mind Reading Pizza Menu
Once again at the vanguard of pizza technology , Pizza Hut has develop an app that “ reads your mind . ” Or rather , the app tracks your optic movements as you peruse their carte du jour , then tells you what to grade free-base on the amount of time you spend take care at unlike ingredients . If you do n’t know what you desire to govern , it ’s all right . Pizza Hut knows you good than you know yourself . And they made an explanatory picture to leaven that the Modern eye trailing card is n’t creepy at all . In fact , " it ’s like magic , but without the weirdness ! "
