Gizmodo: bananas

Oh My Lord: Banana Injector Fills a Banana with Ice Cream

Adam Frucci — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:20:00 EDT

How is it that a patent this brilliant was filed in 1932 but has yet to become the national sensation that it so deserves to be? It fills bananas with ice cream, people!

"The invention relates to an implement for coring bananas and filling the latter through the cored portion with ice cream and more particularly to a banana extractor and ice cream injector.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of an implement of this character, wherein the barrel or cylinder thereof is formed with a knife tip so that the said barrel or cylinder can be readily inserted within a banana to bore or core the same and thereafter a charge of ice cream introduced within the banana so that the same may be consumed, that is, the ice cream, on the eating of the banana, thus effecting a combination of banana and ice cream in a convenient and attractive form."

This sounds amazing. And why limit ourselves to ice cream? As Blam posits, filling a banana with peanut butter and jelly would also make for a damned near perfect snack. It's been over 75 years. How much longer do we have to wait for this thing? [Novah 11]

Jason Chen and the Time Banana

Jason Chen — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:20:00 EDT

This is a real book.

There are so many questions I have just from the cover.

1) What the hell is a Time Banana?

2) What am I doing with a Time Banana?

3) What am I doing on a book?

4) Why am I gesturing for people to go INTO a burning village?

5) Did I take part, or just precipitate the events that lead to the burning of said village?

6) Why is it showing me with a haircut I haven't had since I was eight?

7) Why is the reflection of the town in the water a city?

8) Who is Duncan Richardson and why did he base a book on my life?

9) Why is this the best book description ever?

Mrs B has a secret. And when she says she can't succeed in her dangerous mission without him, Jason agrees to join her for a ride in her Time Banana. They travel back to the 1860s, with the Great Fire of Brisbane looming.

10) Would my book have sold better if I had called it "Jason Chen and the Time Banana"?

I need to get ahold of Duncan Richardson.

[Amazon (Kindle Version) and Amazon Regular]

Yes, We Have Some Bananas, 'Cause We Saved Them With NANA Saver

Kit Eaton — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:15:09 EDT

Whole bananas just look after themselves in your fruit bowl until they go all brown and spotty. But if your recipe calls for half a banana, then you know the spare hemibanana is going to go all gooshy really fast and you'll end up binning it. That's where NANA Saver comes in, with its pincer-like action grabbing onto the end of your bisected fruit and protecting it with a little sealing plate, keeping it fresh from the air. Simple, and only $2.98. Or you just could eat the other half. I'm just saying. [Product via Nerd Approved]

Banokia Banana-Shaped Cellphone Handsfree: Why Is This Real?

Gizloco — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:59:11 EST

Nearest I can tell, this banana-shaped handsfree handset is real. Dubbed the Banokia (!) by creator Mockia, it works with different brands of cellphones using one of four connectors. Now then, what does it do other than hook up to your cellphone? Well, it makes you look like a total ass for starters. Imagine the sight: a man walking down the street talking into a banana. Madness! Next thing you know, women will be demanding the right to vote and all sorts of silly things. Mockia has other wacky headsets, too, including one that looks like the hilariously large portable phones from the 1980s. I can think of no better way to spend $25. – Nicholas Deleon

Product Page [Mockia via Mad 4 Mobile Phones]

A BananaGuard a Day Keeps the Bruises Away

Charlie White — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:16:32 EST

Bananas are among the more delicate fruits, in need of protection inside a lunchbox or backpack. If you're a banana aficionado like we are, you'll need the Banana Guard, a hard plastic case for those phallic fruits that will keep those icky brown bruises away. Hey, BananaGuard also makes a great Halloween costume for that banana, but it's probably too late for that.

The only problem we see? Bananas, being the natural products that they are, vary in size, and some may be too small or big to fit in this condom-esque package. The solution? Buy bananas that fit these containers, and keep 'em pristine and bruise-free for $6.99 Canadian (about $6.25 US). – Charlie White

Product Page [Banana Guard, via The Consumerist]

Banana Phone!

Travis Hudson — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:17:49 EDT

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
Banana phone
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
Banana phone

I've got this feeling
so appealing
for us to get together and sing - SING!

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
Banana phone
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding
Donana phone

It grows in bunches
I've got my hunches
Its the best
beats the rest
cellular modular
interactivodular

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
Banana phone
Ping pong ping pong ping pong ping
Ponana phone

Its no baloney
It aint a phony
My cellular
Bananular phone

Don't need quarters
don't need dimes
to call a friend of mine
dont need computer or tv
to have a real good time
I'll call for pizza
I'll call my cat
I'll call the whitehouse, have a chat
I'll place a call around the world
Operator get me beijing jing jing jing

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
Banana phone
Ying yang ying yang ying yang ying
Yanana phone
It's a real live mama and papa phone
a brother and sister and a dogaphone
a grandpa phone and a grandma phone too - oh yeah
my cellular bananular phone

Banana phone
ring... ring... ring...
Its a phone with appeal (a peel)

Banana phone
ring... ring... ring...
Now you can have your phone and eat it too

Banana phone
ring... ring... ring...
This song drives me .... bananas

Banana phone
ring... ring... ring...

Bo ba do ba do do doob – Travis Hudson

Product Page [Via Gearlog]