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Only a Harvard professor could make eating chocolate look nerdy. David A. Edwards of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has recently developed Le Whif, an inhaler that dispenses miniature molecules of zero-calorie chocolate. Interesting? Yes. Useful? Not so much. Let’s face it—what’s the point of chocolate if it doesn’t come in a pint of J.P. Lick’s or a Chocolate Decadence cake from Finale? We think Professor Edwards should show his school spirit and pump out some other products we?...
...Whif, an inhalable chocolate in three flavors (mint, raspberry, and dark chocolate!) is touring the House dining halls this week as a preview to the opening of The Laboratory at Harvard. Find out more (and see a video of Le Whif) after the jump...
...have those inhalers!” he realized, referring to those that Edwards had developed for the TB vaccine. “Why didn’t I think that before?” The group moved quickly to produce inhalable chocolate, which they called Le Whif. Martin and May were in charge of marketing and packaging while Zhou and Kamler handled the science. The team ground chocolate endlessly using a mortar and pestle Martin happened to have for an art project. (Eventually they’d graduate to dining hall knives.) By December they had the prototype for their...