Wonder Woman mangoes?
A few mornings ago I heard that the little stickers on our fruit are soon to go the way of the buggy-whip. Time Magazine has announced the “Most Amazing Inventions” of 2005 and fruit-tattooing is apparently among them. As with many of these “Most Amazing” technological leaps, I was completely underwhelmed by this announcement; pretty much, if the press release doesn’t begin with the phrase “Japanese researchers have developed a robotic…”, I’m tuning this invention out — unless it’s something about beer.
This could lead me off on a complete tangent about my brother-in-law’s brilliant idea to open up a chain of college town stainless-steel hose-downable saloons staffed completely by robotic bartenders (I think “SwillMonkey’s” was the name he was tossing around), but I won’t let it.
So it looks like in the future all of our fruits and vegetables are not only going to be genetically modified to contain flounder DNA, but will also have enough body-art to be freshmen at the University of Montana. On the very same day I heard about this shocking dystopian development, I brought some of those embarrassingly outmoded, old-school pieces of fruit with the backward, schoolmarmish sticker “technology” home from the market. Check out the lemons:
I doubt you missed it, but just in case, look really close. What the hell is this?
Along with the tattooing, can we look forward to Superman Red Deliciouses? Green Lantern Limes? World Tae Kwon Do Federation?
