While cooking spinach for an omelet, i thought: Why can’t this stuff grow on trees? Indeed, when you think about it, tree leaves might be the most abundant “vegetable” there is. Except you can’t eat them! Just imagine if some tree like a maple were genetically engineering so that its leaves were nutritious and tasty! Good grief! We’d increase Read More …
We’ve all heard of appetite suppressants, or drugs that reduce desire. But what if the “gotta have it” process is a two-part thing? One chemical process produces desire. But it’s a separate deal that makes us feel rotten when the desire isn’t satisfied. After all, you don’t feel rotten as soon as you desire, right? Read More …
Ideally, shouldn’t every vegetable grow on vines? Like carrots. And mini-beets. Easier to pick. Make fruits easier to peel using banana genes. It would be nice to have a ripening-speed button: Slow, fast, STOP! Or at least modify fruits so they’d ripen properly after being purchased. What if tree could move? If they could walk, you Read More …
Ben & Jerry’s Pistachio Pistachio … what a redundant name. I know it’s like double pistachio — both nuts and ice cream — but wouldn’t Pistachio Mustachio sound more fun? Conjures up a green version of the milk mustache. OK, kind of gross … but fun.
Just suppose carrots could jump into your shopping cart. Or apples could climb down from the tree. Or tomatoes could flick away some insect pests. Would you still eat them? It’s easy to think of plant food as dead or at least unconscious, because, well, it is. But suppose by some mechanical / genetic / robotic Read More …
See previous item. When there’s a way to search our own brains, it could be called the Noodle Google. or Google Noodle. Either that, or Google Noodle is a site where you search for pasta.
You rip a plastic produce bag off the roll, and darn thing refuses to let you open it. Sliding it between fingers. Even in a corner. Blowing on it. Rubbing it between my hands, or on my shirt, looking like a total idiot. Eventually it works, creating a tiny gap that takes even more time Read More …
Was looking today to add something nutritional to some chicken tortilla soup today. Didn’t have time to cook rice. That old standby, crackers, is basically empty calories … and pretty boring. Wished I had some kind of tortilla chips made extra tiny and soggy-proof. Something like tortilla chip cereal. Why not reformulate cereals so they Read More …
Finicky Koko turns up her nose at all sorts of canned cat food. It’s unpredictable. Tough to track what she likes and doesn’t. Now we humans often liven up our food with sauces and dressings and cheese. So why not toppings for cats? Rancid Carcass Remoulade. Wild Chipmunk Salsa. Minced-Up Mice Marinara. Grated Meowzerrella. A glop on top, Read More …
Sure, why not? Here’s a cartridge with Cheese Whiz. Here’s one with Instant Pudding in several “colors.” Or slip in the Marinara Module. Or the Ionizing Icing Applicator. You feed (pun intended) in sheets of edible “paper” — beef jerky pulp, pasta paper, flexible crackers (well, they’ll get “crackery” after they dry or baked, pliable cookie Read More …
Why did the Atkins Diet not raise cholesterol levels in many who tried it? Because it’s actually a low-fat diet. Think about it. What are the greasiest fatty foods in the American diet? Fries. Fried chicken. Fried fish. Cookies. Crackers. Candy. Grilled cheese. Pizza with extra cheese. Now say “no carbs” and what happens? You can’t Read More …
What if … you poked tiny holes in hot dogs so steam would vent in a way that the hot dog would turn itself as it heated? I was just about to try it, when I found out somebody ate the last two hot dogs! Test results await. More adventurous would be the Self-Turning Burger. Read More …
You know it’s coming … if it hasn’t already somewhere. Every week for years, I see some new and BIGGER drugstore replacing some landmark corner store. The costume shop is gone. The little pork-sandwich eatery. The elementary school, too. In their place some Walgreens, Rite-Aid, CVS. Why so big? Do we need to sell groceries Read More …
Who needs a bathroom scale? Nobody. Not when somebody makes and markets these handy Scale Shoes. Of course, for some people, who, how shall we say?, have trouble peering over their belts, the digital readout will have to speak. Or, since who wants everyone else to hear?, send a text message or email. Check the Read More …
What if … you had a very light spacecraft … OK, maybe it’s just a satellite with microchips … and suppose (yeah sure) they reallly could build a buckytube-walled space tube that’s 100 miles high … following me so far? … OK, we’ve got the outer part of our space elevator, but what’s to lift Read More …