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Thursday Jul 21, 2005
Latest Tattoo Fad: Fruit
A recent New York Times article (password required) discusses the latest hot tattoo fad: fruit. Not people getting tattoos of fruit, mind you, but actually tattooing produce.
The idea is that by tattooing the fruit’s skin with a laser, store clerks will be able to scan the produce quickly, and customers won’t have to bother with peeling off bothersome stickers. It’s hoped that the increase in convenience will off-set the somewhat unsettling feeling that the fruit looks like it came out of a machine. There don’t appear to be plans, yet, for the introduction of tribal themes to your produce aisle, but with this new technology, will it be long before farms try to distinguish themselves with original fruit tattoos? One of the executives interviewed in the article is already raising the possibility of inscribing advertisements onto apples.
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