Sir Patrick Stewart Joins Cana Technology As "Mission Ambassador"

The Cana One 3D beverage printer. Image: Cana Technology / Paramount.

MARCH 13, 2023 – “Tea, Earl Grey, hot.”

Star Trek fans can hear that phrase and know where it comes from, probably hearing it in Sir Patrick Stewart’s voice. The tea would come from a replicator aboard the USS Enterprise, technology which we are still sadly lacking. But Stewart has teamed up with Cana Technology to promote a product that aims to take steps in the right direction.

According to a press release, Stewart has joined Cana as a “mission ambassador” to raise awareness of the company’s goal of decarbonizing the beverage industry and cleaning up Earth.

Cana says its first product, Cana One, 3D prints thousands of beverages – from soft drinks and iced coffee to hard seltzers, wine, and cocktails – using water that’s freely available in your home or office, without the need for plastic, aluminum, glass or other containers. The latest molecular printer prototype dispenses thousands of beverage variations across a wide range of beverage categories, with near-infinite personalization of things including alcohol, flavor, sweetness and caffeine. Cana automatically ships customized carts directly to your home or office, containing just the small percentage of ingredients that create unlimited variety, when combined with water at the point of consumption.

Cana also developed never-before-commercialized software that make it as easy, fast and affordable to create all-new beverages as it is to make any digital content. Cana’s Creator Studio lets people formulate and distribute beverages from scratch.

Stewart said, “For much of my professional career, I’ve had the privilege of living in the future aboard the world’s most famous starship, where we could get anything, we wanted, whenever we wanted it, thanks to a device that could replicate matter and create drinks, food or medicine from pure energy. Recent scientific breakthroughs in flavor chemistry and fluidics enable us to have a similarly powerful system of production on Earth, starting with liquids. I’m confident that Cana can accelerate the transition to a society of infinite abundance – and I’m delighted to join this particular enterprise.”

Cana One will make its public debut March 17 on stage at Future Food-Tech in San Francisco, where the audience can sample beverages served from Cana One.

You can learn more about Cana and reserve a Cana One at their website.

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