Technology

This Mold-Detecting Bowl Saves Your Fruit, Bananas Everywhere Rejoice

June 19, 2013 // 8:00 am

It’s hard to know when fruit is at its peak. One day, it’s solid and unripe. The next, it magically transforms into mush. Wait too much longer and you’ll have blue fuzzy mold on your hands, or worse, buzzy fruit flies.

Offering a solution to wastefulness, design student Jagjit Chodha created…

The G-Shock x Ciroc Breathalyzer Watch Would Probably Have Way Too Many Buttons, Anyway

June 15, 2013 // 1:10 pm

Breathalyzers aren’t typically a night owl’s hip, go-to accessory. Black, awkward and frankly a bit pager-y, the few portable breathalyzers on the market today seem like much more trouble than they’re worth. Luckily P. Diddy and Casio may have found a way to help ‘90s hoodrats everywhere get home…

AmazonFresh Delivers Your Local Food, Poses Serious Threat to Grocers

June 12, 2013 // 7:00 am

When it comes to keeping up with our fast-paced culture, convenience is key. This is particularly true with everyday tasks like grocery shopping. See, sometimes just making the trip to buy your daily diet of Swedish Fish, Hot Cheetos and Vitamin Water (gotta keep it healthy, yo) can be…

Sushi Helicopter Flies Meals to Your Table, May Chop Off a Finger or Two

June 10, 2013 // 4:05 pm

Yo! Sushi, a popular chain in London, is testing a mini helicopter that delivers meals at a speed of up to 25 miles an hour. Apparently, that means it can travel at up to six times the speed of your average waiter.

The restaurant has dubbed the…

Technology Just Got Serious: Domino’s Invents World’s First Pizza Helicopter

June 10, 2013 // 6:00 am

I’ve got to hand it to Domino’s: when it comes to pizza-related technology, they’ve just blown the competition out of the water. That’s what tends to happen when you engineer a miniature, remote-controlled helicopter for the sole purpose of delivering pizza. Let’s take a second and let that sink…

Foursquare Tries to Lift Us from Game of Thrones Depression with ‘Game of Cones’

June 6, 2013 // 11:02 am

Game of Thrones mourners in San Francisco and New York, brace yourselves. Good news is coming. Foursquare has released a new in-game app called Game of Cones. The concept is simple, but brillant, considering the only way to soothe our grief and cool our rage is ice…

All-You-Can-Drink Coffee App Fuels Your Addiction via Smartphone

May 23, 2013 // 10:45 am

I’ll be the first to admit I have a problem. My affection for coffee has moved beyond love, into lust, and well into dependence. Granted, it’s no longer all that unusual to hear 20-somethings griping about withdrawal symptoms after missing that daily venti peppermint mocha, but apparently, Israel is…

3D Food Printer Could Solve World Hunger with Printable Pizza

May 22, 2013 // 7:00 am

The food of the future comes from a can and tastes like algae and insects . . . at least according to Anjan Contractor, the engineering mastermind behind the 3D food printer that promises to revolutionize our dinner plates and solve world hunger. That sounds like a lot to…