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iPhoto Discovers Face in Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Mark Wilson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:20:00 EDT

iPhoto's face detection isn't perfect, but we can't blame the software for spotting a face in this unbaked batch of cookies.

I mean, c'mon, it looks like just a teddy bear! And maybe a teddy bear face doesn't constitute a human face to some of you in the audience, but I like to think that our world has grown beyond such prejudices. I like to believe that we live in a world in which any face can be considered a face.

The only way this iPhone spot could have been better is if it found the Virgin Mary in a burnt piece of bread. It'll happen. Just give it time. [Flickr via Geekologie]

What Bill Gates Ate for Lunch

matt buchanan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:00:00 EDT

What did Bill Gates eat at New York's Tao Restaurant that he said was "a good deal"?

The $24 prix-fixe lunch. Here's what Bill had a choice of munching on, via Alley Insider:

Appetizer choice of:
Bang Bang Chicken Salad
Satay of Chicken with Peanut Sauce
Bamboo Steamed Veggie Dumplings
Peking Duck Spring Rolls with Hoisin Sauce

Entree choice of:
Soy Ginger Salmon
Kung Pao Chicken
Shanghai Scallion Beef
Wok seared NY Sirloin
Vegetable or Chicken Pad Thai
Sushi Roll Trio
Dessert:
Zen Parfait
Fresh Fruit & Tangerine Sorbet
Banana Bread Pudding

I'm thinking Bill went with the Bang Bang Chicken Salad, the Soy Ginger Salmon and the Zen Parfait. Or maybe that's just what I would get. And thanks to inflation, in five years a $24 lunch will be a good deal for the rest of us too. [NY Post via Silicon Alley Insider]

Strawberries That Taste Like Chocolate

Mark Wilson — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:51:44 EST

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.

Their next project is (after putting us all on the brink of death with delicious-sounding super strawberries) to use this same freeze-drying process to inject foods with higher vitamin/mineral content. Given that many people are adverse to getting their FDA-approved nutritional quota through pills and that many nutrients absorb better into the body with food, it sounds like a pretty good idea.

But can you imagine? A chocolate infused strawberry with a dose of Viagra would cause wider-spread panic than roofies. [japantimes via tokyomango]