Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

I was talking about this with a co-worker yesterday. It's the general problem with fruit. I think it's safe to say that people like fruit. Really, who doesn't like a sweet fresh orange or a crisp red apple?

The problem is that fruit is fundamentally difficult to use. Yes, I'm lazy, but really, who wants to peel and orange, break it into segments and remove that weird white crud just to eat it? I'm the same with apples. I like them, but I hate working around the core. Same with pears. And don't even get me talking about pomegranates. The only fruit that's really easy to use is the banana. Unfortunately I'm not a big fan of bananas.

So, what we need is a cool machine that would take fruit as the input and produce immediately edible fruit as the output. So, I toss in an orange and I get peeled and segmented orange pieces. I throw in a pineapple and it gives me evenly sliced pineapple rings with the core removed. I think it would be safe to say it wouldn't have to handle the lesser-known fruits like star fruit or the egg fruit. Maybe if you put in several different kinds of fruit you could get fruit salad out.

What do you think?