Tag: Vegetables
Play Music With Tech-Infused Fruit And Veggies Instead Of Instruments
Last year I remember writing about a little kit that would allow someone to turn anything (including fruit and veggies) into a keyboard. It was one of those Kickstarter projects that hoped to raise $25,000 but they ended up raising over half a million dollars. You can read about it on How To Turn A ...
Grow A High Tech Vegetable Garden Right In Your Kitchen
Back in 2010, I wrote an article about a new technology that would allow vegetables to grow in a vending machine contraption without any sunlight. It was an awkward technology in its infancy at the time. The machine could produce lettuce (60 heads per day) which it zapped with 40 watt fluorescent li ...
How To: Extract DNA From A Strawberry (Yes, Fruit Has DNA)
Haven't you always wanted to know how to extract DNA from the strawberries in your kitchen? This is the kind of thing that makes science so much fun! Before I show you how to yank a big 'ol sack of DNA right out from a strawberry, let me ask, did you know that fruit has DNA? I didn't. It turns out t ...
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Cheat Sheet Guide To Mastering All Things Cooking [Infographic]
I have always been confused about the different measurements and metrics when it comes to the European standard and the American. It's like 2 different worlds. There are pounds versus kilograms, meters versus feet. Keeping the conversions in your head is like keeping track of each star on the midnig ...
World’s First Lego Greenhouse Built With 100,000 Lego Bricks
Many people consider London to be the design capital of the world, and each year in September when I see all the designs showcased at the London Design Festival, I can understand why. They are always fresh and innovative, and since I'm not a designer, I usually just stare at them in complete awe.
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Creative Star Wars Inspired Vegetable Carvings
Have you ever noticed how much Star Wars inspires food designers and party planners? Now that I think about it, Star Wars pretty much inspires all geeks, whatever their interests may be. I remember when I wrote the article Geektastic Collection Of Star Wars Inspired Party Foods. If you are a Star Wa ...
Potato Portraits: The Real Life Potato Heads
A potato is a versatile little veggie, isn't it? Not only can we cook it about a million different ways, it can also be used as an artist's canvas. Next time you are sitting home bored on a Saturday night, just grab a potato from the kitchen, and you'll be guaranteed hours of fun. Ok, maybe not, but ...
Technology: Grow Vegetables Without Sunlight
I know this may sound creepy, but have you ever wondered how we will grow vegetables if there is ever a nuclear holocaust and we are all living in our bunkers?
Even if we live in a super fancy bunker like this, we are still going to have to grow food, right? I mean, we can't live on canned food ...
Candwich – Canned Sandwich For The Lazy
Have you ever been too lazy to go to the kitchen to fix yourself something to eat? Most of the time when we are just a little hungry we tend to go for a sandwich because it doesn't exactly take that long to hook one up. However, for some people, that might just be the case since they are not willi ...
Candy Face Artwork: Disturbing Deliciousness
Candy is one of the most sugar injected delicacies we humans love to eat and hate to love. There are so many negative effects that come from candy, yet many times we only look at the one positive effect, and that is that it tastes so good. In fact, some studies say we eat more candy each year than ...
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