Boffin demos melon-matching tech With a firm grip on facial recognition tech already, Japanese boffins have turned their attention to food and developed a tool to identify fruit and veg. NEC's latest tech allows punters to point a camera at a product and get back when and where the item was grown. NEC I recognise those melons This is unachievable without …
When I was in Japan I noticed that rock-melons are sold for an astronomical price, typical ¥20,000 or £150.00 each! They come individually boxed in presentation boxes. For that price I want to know a fair amount about the melon before I buy it, including when it was grown, where it was grown, who picked it, and which other melons it had slept with.
Squeezing these melons is not an option.
Unfortunately, Japan prohibits the importation of melons, destroying my cunning plan to bring a bag full of melons on my next visit for a handsome profit :-(
What absolute twaddle - no "app" is going to be able to tell where an apple (or anything else) was grown simply by looking at a photo of it, there are millions (billions ?) of apples produced every year, millions of these grown in thousands of places will look almost identical.
Rubbish.
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