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Do those tiny stickers stuck prominently on your fruit annoy you? Well, they sure annoy me. Sometimes they’re hard to remove, even under running water, so the fruit ends up with little scratch or fingernail marks (which are obviously bad to look at) thanks to yours truly trying to pry…

Leave it to the Japanese to create yet another specialized robot to do a job that previously only a human could do.

Developed by Japan’s National Agricultural and Food Research Organization [JP] this award winning robot [JP] can delicately pluck individual strawberries from the vine. Not only is it gentle…

Apparently, the Japanese enjoy vending machines so much that they keep coming up with new things to sell in them. Take for instance, Dole, who has just announced that they will be selling bananas through vending machines in Japan. It’s interesting, but I’d just pop by to see a human…

I’m filing this one away in the “why?, why they heck not?”… bin. This off-the-wall contraption is an optical electronic theremin stuffed inside a fake banana.

The guys over at kuriositas have posted these pics of some awesome Death Star inspired watermelons and cantaloupes.

All you need is a pen knife and a little patience, and you can make your own Death Star melons. Personally, I’d fill mine with vodka.…

Apparently, the folks in Japan have some different ways of chilling out in the tub than what I’m familiar with. Banpresto Fruit Palette are light-up fake fruit that you float around your bathtub while you soak to help you let your mind drift. Ahhhhh… There’s nothing like some oversize plastic…

Aaaaaand action! You’re late for a meeting. Your heart is beating so fast and so loud. You get in your car. You start the car. You drive off. You are fast; you are speed itself. But you’re pretty sure you’re still late. You keep on driving fast. Suddenly you realize…

Wear your retro Apple spirit on your sleeve (or really on your chest) with one of these illuminated t-shirts, sporting the old school rainbow Apple logo.

The t-shirt lights up using an electroluminescent display that responds to music and other ambient sounds.
And while Apple hasn’t used the classic rainbow…

From the land of the rising square watermelons comes another batch of freaky fruit. A Fuji apple orchard owner loved the big A so much that he decided to brand real apples with little iPod figures and Apple logos. Instead of, I don’t know, buying Apple products. To each his…

There’s nothing that conjures up thoughts of a warm Summer day than some sticky sweet watermelon juice running down your hands. But for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, Summer is long, long gone.

What better place to keep your happy Summer vacation memories than on this delicious looking…