Ripesense = Purchasing Fruit for Morons
I’ve seen Ripesense on a number of blogs as an example of a cool technology application, but it just seems like a complete waste to me. Do you really need technology to save you from the monumental effort of squeezing a pear to see if it’s ripe? Does everything we buy have to be wrapped in plastic? This seems like far too much in the way of resources to get a person to buy and eat four pears. Yes, you get a bad piece of fruit every once in a while, but big deal. If past generations have been able to manage fruit eating, I’m sure we can do without a dot to tell us when it’s best.
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i agree this is a waste of technology.
what i’m more concerned about is whether or not the piece of fruit was picked unripe and then sprayed with some chemical to make it ripen in plastic while it rode to the grocer. i want to know that when i bite into a piece of fruit or vegetable that i am eating what nature wanted me to eat.
use technology to come up with a hand-held scanner that detects chemicals not naturally present in that specific piece of produce. that’s worthwhile to me.
I also agree. I have yet to see this “technology” in use though. I will start looking. It’s as though every damn thing has to made completely idiot-proof anymore. As if purchasing fruit is a complicated task. Maybe if people who are too stupid to even purchase food weren’t able too, there wouldn’t be so many of them roaming the planet.