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BLUE Bowl Shines Light on Your Fruit to Stop the Rot

This design concept from Ahmet Bektes, Koray Gelmez & Eda Kose uses "Action Fresh Blue" technology—apparently used in "many new refrigerators"— to keep your fruit fresh. It seems that this tech is essentially a blue light, which shines down from the bowl's handle, killing bacteria. Hmmm: I'm skeptical. But at least it's rechargeable, and has a nifty blue halo all around when it's in action so your kitchen looks all 21st Century. If it really works, it might be useful if you're like me: buying a lot a fruit when on a health-kick, and then just leaving it in the bowl to go moldy. [Yanko Design]

9:36 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,766 views, 45 comments

Latest by ARVash: Ultraviolet light can be used to prevent mold. [www.inventgeek.com] more »

bananas

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

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]

8:15 AM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,844 views, 56 comments

Latest by Paint Swatch: I need this now, so that my bananaphone won't get all mushy in my pocket... more »

mmmm

Strawberries That Taste Like Chocolate

In the future, no natural food will taste as you remember it now. Because face it: fruits and vegetables are great. But if turnips tasted like Doritos, America wouldn't be so fat that our continent occasionally dips into the ocean, like arm floaties on a grown man. Tokyo company FCOM is learning how to change food as we know it. Instead of using genetic modification, they're utilizing techniques from other industrial processes. Through freeze-drying fruit, FCOM is then able to replace with water with flavor (or in the case of strawberries, water with white chocolate). But no, they haven't made cocao butter-based white chocolate into a health food. More »

8:51 AM on Fri Jan 4 2008
By Mark Wilson
5,043 views, 47 comments

Latest by n/a: @frigg: ahhhh, yes, good point! more »

usb stink-o-rama

FlashKey Fruit-a-Roma Drive, You Need One Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

You know USB flash drives have reached commodity status when manufacturers get so desperate for differentiation that they decide to make them smell good. That's these FlashKey Fruit-a-Roma USB drives' claim to fame, giving you a choice of strawberry, grape, orange or apple scent in capacities from 128MB to 4GB. It's not entirely clear whether their sweet smell is kicked up even more when you plug them in, nor was pricing announced yet, either. Come to think of it, these drives are the opposite of a freebie flash drive we received one time. More »

12:30 PM on Wed Jul 25 2007
By Charlie White
1,560 views, 6 comments

Latest by OMG! Ponies!: @primetime4: It's not a U2 reference; it's a Gloria Steinem reference, as in "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." more »

sugar water

Pur Water Purifying Fruit Flavor Cartridges Are Both Fantastic and Horrible

As if drinking regular water isn't enough for kids these days, Pur is introducing Pur Flavor Options, which is a fruit cartridge you can stick into their Pur water filter systems. The upshot? Now you can flip a switch and get filtered fruit-flavored water from your tap, which has the taste of water you used to rinse actual fruit in but none of the health benefits of water. Yum! – Jason Chen More »

10:15 PM on Tue May 15 2007
By Jason Chen
5,856 views, 14 comments

gadgets

The Ring With More Fruit and Less Scary Japanese Lady

We're not sure what kind of person (or family) needs to keep a stock of 20 apples, oranges, and what could be limes in their home, but this Ring design seems to satisfy your crazy craving for produce. Fresh fruit goes in at the top, and less fresh fruit comes out the bottom. A cool design, but unless you plan on becoming a full-fledged fruitarian like Steve Jobs was, you probably want to stick with the less demanding fruit holders. – Jason Chen More »

11:30 AM on Mon Apr 16 2007
By Jason Chen
2,290 views, 30 comments

Latest by Fierock: sammy baby, if you put'em in the bottom, then you'd have to eat them all before loading it up again, or else you get rotten apples and fruit flies on top. the whole point is to rotate the inventory... kind of like more »

gadgets

Fruity Watches Provide Your Recommended Daily Allowance of Awesome

Although these fruity watches from Seiko aren't gadgety in the sense that they allow you to communicate with a talking car, they are pretty neat. Designed like 10 different fruits—kiwis, oranges, grapefruits, coconuts, lemons, limes (that's all the fruit we know)—these watches use the seeds to mark 5 minute increments on their sliced-open faces. More »

9:30 PM on Thu Mar 15 2007
By Jason Chen
2,243 views, 11 comments

gadgets

Nutrition-Free Kellogg's Lego Fruit Flavored Snacks, Lego Logo and All

Judging from the overwhelming interest in anything we post about Lego, we're thinking that some of the visitors to the Giz love Lego so much they want to put them in their mouths, and probably do from time to time. More »

11:35 AM on Wed Feb 14 2007
By Charlie White
4,865 views, 30 comments

home entertainment

AT&T: Raising The Bar, Then Swiping Your Fruit

Reader Brian sends us this video along with his narrative:
"I had noticed the last couple days, always around lunch time I saw someone out back of my house fixing something.. so yesterday I decided to actually watch him, and see what he was doing... and so a video was born."
This one's right up there with the Comcast cable guy falling asleep on someone's couch. So that's how AT&T Raises the Bar: the company's trained technicians will raise their special cherry pickers to relieve you of any extra fruit you might have on hand, say, a bushel or two of oranges, and won't give up until they're done, even if it takes three days. – Charlie White More »

9:26 AM on Wed Jan 24 2007
By Charlie White
900 views, 29 comments

Latest by life-is-funny: Inside information, for all those wondering, the tech had permission from the owner inadvance to pick the oranges but got introuble with At&t for using the truck/company tool. more »

clocks

Fruit Powered Clock - It's Alive!

The fruit clock is a digital clock/calendar powered by fruit. While emulating the original battery invented by Alessandro Volta over 200 years ago that utilized lemon juice, the creation of whole fruit in the mid-1900s has allowed the experiment to be perfected with artistic flare.

The kit includes jumper wires, time display, rubber stop and frame for its $14.95 pricetag. And don't feel bad while people are starving in the world as you destroy the food supply for a "conversation piece". You read Gizmodo, and are therefore a decent person (though you probably smell a little funny, honestly). – Mark Wilson More »

9:49 AM on Sun Nov 5 2006
By Mark Wilson
2,430 views, 17 comments

Latest by goodjob: it is good more »

home entertainment

Apple Develops Hello Kitty Television

Oho, I got you good! Apple has nothing to do with this disgusting television. It just looks like an actual apple and comes plastered with cutesy Hello Kitty images. This TV is manufactured by Sanrio and obviously isn't pink enough to be a real Hello Kitty product. – Travis Hudson More »

10:17 AM on Tue Sep 5 2006
By Travis Hudson
1,513 views, 5 comments

gadgets

Still Life Wall Mounted Fruit Holder

This thing is mildly old—it's circa UMAMY Design Groups' 2003 Collection—but it's useful for us now so we thought readers would enjoy it. Whenever we buy fruit from the supermarket, it always sits slowly rotting in the bottom of the fridge, waiting for the eating that never comes. By being mounted on the wall, this thing nags you, like your mother, to eat the fruit before it goes bad. Useful and healthy. – Jason Chen More »

5:30 PM on Fri Jul 28 2006
By Jason Chen
3,403 views, 6 comments

Latest by launchinglunch: Is that a empty banana slot in your Still Life Wall Mounted Fruit Holder, or are you just happy to see me? Yes, someday I'll grow up. more »

gadgets

Professor Invents Fruit Ripeness Sticker

As a guy who can't hear the difference between knocking on a ripe melon, knocking on an under-ripe melon and knocking on my own ass, a "ripeness" indicator sticker on fruit would be awesome. This sticker, invented by a University of Arizona professor, can display to shoppers whether a fruit or vegetable is ripe, under-ripe or over-ripe. More »

9:15 PM on Wed Jul 26 2006
By Jason Chen
705 views, 13 comments

portable media

Fruity Smelling iCool MP3 Players

Wanting desperately to stimulate 2 senses instead of just one, Solid Alliance has announced its fruit fragrance iCool MP3 players in Japan. The players come in 6 flavors (and include chocolate- and rose-smelling products, as well as fruity scents) and come with 256MB of internal memory and an SD slot, with USB 2.0 connections and MP3/WMA playback, FM-Tuner, and voice recorder. More »

12:15 PM on Wed Feb 8 2006
By tgrumet
254 views, 3 comments

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Fruit-filled Walls

Gizmodo Guest Editor: Regine Debattyafruih.jpgWe might get the gadgets one year after the US here in Europe, but we have designers so cool that it makes living in tech Middle Ages slightly more bearable. Take Oyon for example. Oyon is a mural fruit holder that uses walls as screens and gives fruit and vegetable the role of pixels.-RD More »

9:45 AM on Thu Jul 21 2005
By gizguest
93 views