Google founder Sergey Brin is always on the forefront of technology and innovation. He is the man responsible for spearheading the Google Glass program and Google’s driverless cars. Outside of Google he is still as involved in the outer fringe of technology which he proved yesterday when it was announced that he was the mystery investor behind a team of scientists who grew the first hamburger made in a lab from cow meat stem cells. The process has the potential to turn a few cells from a cow into 10 tonnes of meat for consumption with a reduction in the amount of  land and water needed to make meat by as much as 90% and overall energy use by up to 70%. The problem with cows is that they “are very inefficient, they require 100g of vegetable protein to produce only 15g of edible animal protein,” Dr Mark Post the head of the team at Maastricht University told the Guardian this makes meat a very inefficient use of farming resources which could be put to better use feeding humans. The 20 000 muscle fibres took the team 3 months to grow and they were then extracted from the culture wells and pressed together to form a usable patty.