Fruit

Video: This machine robot peels an orange so fast

Of course by letting a machine do your fruit peeling for you, you lose a good amount of the orange and don’t get that fresh citrus scent on your hands but you do get an orange that’s ready to eat in seconds! I have to say though, I’d love to see this machine tackle more…

Sploid Casey Chan May 21

An Apple A Day Keeps The Prescription Meds Away

A new study suggests that people should regularly eat apples not necessarily to keep the doctor away, but as a means to reduce national health care spending. Last week, a research article titled “Association between apple consumption and physician visits: appealing the conventional wisdom than an apple a day keeps the doctor away” was published…

io9 Lindsay Kobayashi — PLOS Blogs Apr 8

This Japanese Robot Feeds You Tomatoes While You Run

Okay, it’s not exactly a robot—but I bet it’s still the craziest thing you’ve seen all day. Japanese juice and ketchup company Kagome built a freaking wearable tomato dispenser for a runner at the Japan Marathon this weekend. The video pretty much speaks for itself: What’s really going on here? Believe it or not, it’s…

Tech News Sean Hollister Feb 21

Slow motion explosion of an orange is like seeing a supernova on Earth

Fruit may be the best thing to blow up because all that pulp, juice, seeds, peel, skin make for great gory guts in explosions. This slow motion explosion of an orange is as good as explosions get. In fact, it almost looks like a mini version of our Sun going supernova and exploding on itself.…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 29

How To Prove A Geometric Formula With A Clementine And A Piece of Paper

Here’s a fun demonstration from Cornell maths professor Steven Strogatz. Take a clementine (or any spherical, peelable fruit) and trace around its widest part four times. Then peel it. Flatten out the peelings as best you can and divvy them up evenly among the circles. Voilà! Tangible proof that the the surface area of a…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 14

Watch vegetables get turned into juice with underwater shockwaves

Screw juicing or making kale smoothies, here’s the next big trend in what to drink: turning fruit and vegetables into juice with underwater shockwaves. The outside of the vegetable look the same after the explosion but the inside has turned into juice. Just stick a straw in and enjoy. It’s a stunt ad for Japanese…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 3

Guy slices up flying fruit with a katana like a real life Fruit Ninja

It’s an ad, so bear with the never ending attempts to sneak in Toaster Strudels but here’s master swordsman and multiple Guinness World Records holder Isao Machii slicing up fruit with a real sword better than any wannabe ninja can on his phone. On one side, it’s fun and ridiculous and hilarious that people can…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 26

A Computer Has Finally Proven the Answer to a 400-Year-Old Math Problem

Way back in 1611, Johannes Kepler suggested that the most efficient way to stack spheres—like arranging oranges for sale—was in a pyramid formation. Sadly, he couldn’t prove it, but now a computer has finally verified it to be true, settling centuries of debate. In fact, Thomas Hales of the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, developed a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Aug 12

This Tree Is Growing 40 Different Kinds Of Fruit At Once

This single (and quite colorfully blossoming) tree grows 40 different varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and even almonds — but just how does it do it? It does it through the process of chip grafting. After sculptor Sam Van Aken bought a failing orchard in upstate New York full of hundreds of different…

io9 Ria Misra Jul 22

Animals Shaped the Evolution of Colorful Fruits

Fruits can get their colors from a lot of places. New research suggests that the color preferences of the animals that eat fruit are among the strongest influences on fruit color. It’s an assumption scientists have always made, but now they have some evidence to support it. It has long been thought that part of…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Jul 18

Why Does Your Apple Turn Brown, and How Can You Stop It?

Cut an apple in half and you begin a race against time. Every second you waste is a second that your apple uses to turn into a flaccid brown mess. Why do apples try so hard to foil your quest for vitamins? Science has the answer. Photo by nayladen via Shutterstock The Browning Enzyme Certain…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jul 15

The watermelon might be the best thing to see explode in slow motion

What’s your favorite thing to see explode? Never thought about it? How could you. I think it might have to be the watermelon The hard outer shell of the fruit makes for perfect fragmentation, the watermelon’s shape holds an explosive pretty darn well and its red flesh makes for colorfully gory splashes (especially against the…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 21

What killed off the world’s largest apes?

At 10 feet tall and up to 1,200 pounds, the aptly-named Gigantopithecus blacki were the largest apes the world has ever seen. These beasts went extinct some 100,000 years ago, and surprisingly, they may have been taken down by a diet that was too rich in fruit. No doubt, these animals were huge. Paleontologists aren’t…

io9 George Dvorsky Jan 14

Laser-Cut Logos: The Future of Packaging Is No Packaging At All

The EU is notoriously sensitive about how its crops are grown—but this weekend, it will begin allowing companies to apply labels and barcodes directly onto produce using lasers. The new legislation—which has taken three years to pass—was spearheaded by a Spanish company called Laser Food (natch), which has developed proprietary tech to print the marks…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jun 19

Hybrid Fruits Sound Delicious And Sort Of Exist A Little Bit

I would do basically anything to try a bananaberry, kiwigerine or pinegrape. No matter how varied and colorful nature is, I will always want more delicious fruit options. And Ogilvy Brazil knows. They sense my weakness. To sell Philips’s new blender, the Walita Avance, Ogilvy Brazil designed this ad campaign . . . and created…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman May 26

Scientists Revolutionize Pina Colada Production With Coconut-Flavored Pineapples

Australia’s Department of Agriculture has announced that its researchers have made a breakthrough that will send shockwaves across beach resorts and tiki-themed restaurants around the world. Through careful breeding they’ve managed to produce a sweet pineapple that also tastes like coconut, reducing future Pina Colada recipes to just two ingredients. The new breed of fruit,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 6

Yonanas Review: Stupid Name, Amazing Dessert

Years ago I heard that you could make a delicious and healthy “ice cream” type dessert simply by blending frozen bananas. While the result was indeed tasty, it killed my blender and was really hard to scoop out. Yonanas is a machine custom-built for this purpose. But something that sounds that dumb couldn’t actually work,…

Reviews Brent Rose Nov 20

This Is the Shiniest Living Thing on the Planet

Hidden away, deep within a forest in central Africa, is something quite special. But the Pollia berry’s name doesn’t quite do it justice, because this thing is shiny. Damn shiny. In fact, it’s the shiniest living thing in the world. These fruits, which look a bit like something you might hang on a Christmas tree,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 11

Scientists Invent Healthy Chocolate Made With… Fruit Juice?

While there’s some evidence that chocolate is good for you, the fact remains that it’s so full of fat and sugar that binging on it will make you fat. Now, though, scientists have developed a healthier version of chocolate using fruit juice—but how the hell does it work? https://gizmodo.com/chocolate-keeps-you-slim-5896690 In fact what they’ve done is…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Aug 14

This Bowl Will Always Be Exactly the Size You Need it to Be

The Stretchy Bowl is the easy-to-store fruit basin that never wants to disappoint. Composed of a white metal base (which requires minimal assembly) and a matching metal hoop wrapped in a layer of breathable, elastic fabric, this bowl is always the right size to accomodate your haul of produce. As you add more fruit to…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jul 9

Video: This machine robot peels an orange so fast

An Apple A Day Keeps The Prescription Meds Away

This Japanese Robot Feeds You Tomatoes While You Run

Slow motion explosion of an orange is like seeing a supernova on Earth

How To Prove A Geometric Formula With A Clementine And A Piece of Paper

Watch vegetables get turned into juice with underwater shockwaves

Guy slices up flying fruit with a katana like a real life Fruit Ninja

A Computer Has Finally Proven the Answer to a 400-Year-Old Math Problem

This Tree Is Growing 40 Different Kinds Of Fruit At Once

Animals Shaped the Evolution of Colorful Fruits

Why Does Your Apple Turn Brown, and How Can You Stop It?

The watermelon might be the best thing to see explode in slow motion

What killed off the world’s largest apes?

Laser-Cut Logos: The Future of Packaging Is No Packaging At All

Hybrid Fruits Sound Delicious And Sort Of Exist A Little Bit

Scientists Revolutionize Pina Colada Production With Coconut-Flavored Pineapples

Yonanas Review: Stupid Name, Amazing Dessert

This Is the Shiniest Living Thing on the Planet

Scientists Invent Healthy Chocolate Made With… Fruit Juice?

This Bowl Will Always Be Exactly the Size You Need it to Be

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