Vegetables Archive

  • New packaging concept helps lazy shoppers find fresh produce

    New packaging concept helps lazy shoppers find fresh produce

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Don't you hate standing in the supermarket, with all those people standing around you, peering in your cart and passing judgement over your purchases? You can code a beautiful, standards compliant cross-browser compatible website in your sleep, but you're stymied by which head of lettuce is the freshest. Technology is here to help you, comrade: as time passes, the barcode on the packaging slowly fades.

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  • Depot Angel: Japanese company sells pre-fabricated basements (video)

    Depot Angel: Japanese company sells pre-fabricated basements (video)

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments
    About a year ago, I blogged about Yamaha's portable room that you could set up in bigger rooms to have your well-deserved quiet time. And now another Japanese company called Tamada brings us something similar: The Depot Angel [JP] (what a name), a pre-fabricated basement that can be, again, used to enjoy some alone time, as a storage room or as anything you'd like it to be. The main idea is to create additional space for Japanese households at relatively affordable prices. Seeing that real estate in Japan is (generally speaking) pretty expensive, it might make sense for some families in this country to get one Depot Angel and bury it under their house.

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  • Worlds Collide: iMo digital photo frame features built-in printer

    Worlds Collide: iMo digital photo frame features built-in printer

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    If you thought that the whole point of the common digital photo frame was to make old-school photos a thing of the past, it looks like you were wrong. I was wrong too, so let's take comfort together in our wrongness. If the folks at iMo have their way, we’ll look at a digital photo on their digital frame and say to ourselves “I want that photo on some sort of card stock and I'll stop at nothing to get it!”

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  • Grilled Meat King: Bandai to sell BBQ simulator toy

    Grilled Meat King: Bandai to sell BBQ simulator toy

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Just in time for summer, Japan gets a new toy that won't require you to go out to get the BBQ experience anymore. This actually doesn't make much sense, but Bandai has announced [JP] an-indoor BBQ simulator toy yesterday, the Yakiniki Ou (roughly: Grilled Meat King). Yakiniku is the name of a number of Japanese grilled meat dishes. Buyers of the Grilled Meat King get the grill, 14 fake food items (sausages, bite-sized meat and vegetables etc.), dishes, sauce, tongs and even a menu. Up to 4 players are supposed to grill the food, flip it and get it off the grill as quickly as possible.

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