During the Civil War, apple cider was a valuable commodity. Not just because it was delicious, but because it made for a handy alcoholic disinfectant. (You do know what medicine was like back then, right?) More »
Haha. An apple a day. Just like Gizmodo with all this Tablet news! Get it?! Funny. But this is different. It’s a calendar concept. An ingenious one at that – and healthy too! More »
Fruit need not be healthy. The $US12 Shotcarver will core almost any produce under the sun. The resulting hole is intended for hard liquor, which is intended to kill you. [CoolStuffExpress via NerdApproved]
I happen to love the automated check out lines at the supermarket, but I hate the five or six seconds of my day that are wasted there when I have to manually input the name of the produce I’m weighing on the scale. Lucky for me, and for other lazy people who absolutely have to have those five seconds back, there’s a new development in automated check out scales that could revolutionise the supermarket industry. Here’s a hint: It’s like facial recognition, but for fruit!
Here’s an unexpected patent from Apple: a system for projecting 3D images. Sure, we’ve seen 3D panels from Sharp and 3D projectors that require glasses, but this is a projector setup that requires no glasses. And this makes sense for Apple why?
