DEPARTMENTS
Apparel
Appliances
Bar
BBQ & Grill
Bike
Car
Children
Computers/telecom
Culture
DVD/Video
Edibles
Environment
Flashlights/torches
Footwear
Garden
Home
Internet
Inventions A-Z
Kitchen
Kitchen furniture
Leisure
Links
Meta
Misc.
Outdoors
Pets
Personal care
Photography
Readers Choice
Safety and security
Services
Smart Stuff aStore
Solar power
Sound & Music
Swedish
Third World
Travel
Tools
Video
Water
Work
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tell a friend about us:




. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

TIPS AND TRICKS
Apparel
Bar/Drinks
Bike
Car/Driving
Computers
Culture/Learning
Gardening
Home
Internet
Kitchen/Cooking
Outdoors
Pets
Travel
Work/Business
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Visitors online:

website counter

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2010 ARCHIVE
January 10
February 10
March 10
April 10
May 10
June 10
July 10
August 10
September 10
October 10
November 10
December 10
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2009 ARCHIVE
January 09
February 09
March 09
April 09
May 09
June 09
July 09
August 09
September 09
October 09
November 09
December 09
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2008 ARCHIVE
January 08
February 08
March 08
April 08
May 08
June 08
July 08
August 08
September 08
October 08
November 08
December 08
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2007 ARCHIVE
January 07
February 07
March 07
April 07
May 07
June 07
July 07
August 07
September 07
October 07
November 07
December 07
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 2006 ARCHIVE
January 06
February 06
March 06
April 06
May 06
June 06
July 06
August 06
September 06
October 06
November 06
December 06
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 2005 ARCHIVE
January 05
February 05
March 05
April 05
May 05
June 05
July 05
August 05
September 05
October 05
November 05
December 05
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

All the smart gadgets, inventions and ideas on the Smart Stuff News RSS feed from Feedburner in English
Feed via Feedburner

What are feeds?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Made on a Mac
SMART STUFF | ARCHIVE | EDIBLES..|..1..2
Welcome to the Smart Stuff edibles section with some of the world's smartest foods, edible inventions and food ideas. Below you'll find our constantly updated archive of the world's smartest food stuff.



Label that watches over food safety

Label that watches over food safety.
Tempix is a Swedish company with cool idea. A temperature indicator for chilled or frozen foodstuffs. The Tempix system can keep a watch over products down to an individual package and create an alert if a package has been exposed to an unsafe temperature during the transport from manufacturer to customer. The Tempix temperature indicator is integrated into the package bar code. If the product has been exposed to a too high temperature, part of the bar code is destroyed, thus making the product impossible to check out through the cashier. The indicator is also readable to the naked eye. Compare the area inside the green circle in the two labels above. The top label indicates that the product has been correctly treated, the bar code is intact and a singe line is clearly visible inside the white square. The bottom label, however, indicates that the product has been exposed to temperatures above the allowed level. The black line in the square has disappeared, and the last part of the bar code has been erased.

29 October 2008





Salt cubes - because we use too much of it.
Salt is one of the most useful spices for cooking. And for a long time essential for our ability to preserve foods for longer than a few days. Salted herring. Salted salmon. Salted meat. You name it. Without it long sea voyages would hardly have been possible, and the great discoveries possibly not discovered. Way back, salt nodes in rocks or mines were worth their weight in gold and an excellent trading commodity. Now, however, when salt is readily available, we tend to use too much. Hence this idea; the Kakujio. The Kakujio is a 2.5cc salt cube. Enough for cooking. Designed by the De Meyboom Lab in the Netherlands by Yasuhito Hirose and Ryohei Yoshiyuki it was featured in the Muji Awards 02. Also check out the Muji Awards 01, and the call for entries to Muji Awards 03.

29 May 2008





What you see is not always what you get.
But you knew that, didn't you? Or at least suspected. If you have ever bought a frozen or otherwise packaged meal, chances are the actual food did not live up to what the picture on the box promised. A bunch of Germans behind the Verbung gegen realität (Advertising vs. reality) website had noticed the same thing, and with almost proverbial German thoroughness they have gone through exactly 100 ready-mades of all kinds, taken pictures of the packaging, cooked the food according to instructions, and finally photographed the often pretty pathetic result. The pictures are organized in sets of three (example above) where everyone can compare what you're promised with what you actually get. The food in the project comes from German stores, but we don't think the assortment in your or our store is much different. Take a few minutes and look through the gallery before you go grocery shopping next time! Bon appétit!

27 March 2008



Refractometer
Test your veggies with a refractometer.
Yesterday, and again today, we read a couple of quite disturbing articles in Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish only), our preferred morning read. They were about the fruit and the vegetables we eat, and about how these greens in many cases may look colorful and nutritious, but actually hardly are worth the effort it takes to chew and eat them. Many are so diluted of nutrition that they do not meet the standards set up for the manufacture of fruit juices. Read more on the reports on the latest edition of The Daily Lemon, back to-day from summer recess. So, what does the apparatus above have to do with all this? Well, it is a refractometer (Wiki) that is used to measure the sugar content, Brix, (Wiki) of fruit and vegetables. A high Brix number indicates, among other things, that the fruit or veggie has a sweeter taste, a higher vitamin and mineral content, does not spoil as fast, and has a better resistance to sickness and pests and thus needs less insecticides. A low Brix count is caused by, among other things, not letting the fruit or vegetable ripen, that they have not been exposed to enough sunlight, has been grown in depleted soil, or has been grown too fast. With a refractometer you can check wether the fruit and vegetables in your store is up to par. The refractometer above comes from Technika and is USD 96:- with a calibration certificate. A similar refractometer is to be found on Amazon for USD 89:-.

26 July 2006



THIS ARCHIVE HAS MORE PAGES.|..1..2

DEPARTMENTS | APPAREL | APPLIANCES | BAR | BBQ | BICYCLE | CAR | CHILDREN | COMPUTERS/TELECOM | CULTURE | DVD | EDIBLES | ENVIRONMENT | FLASHLIGHTS/TORCHES | FOOTWEAR | GARDEN | HOME | INTERNET | INVENTIONS A-Z | KITCHEN | KITCHEN FURNITURE | LEISURE | LINKS | META | MISC. | OUTDOORS | PETS | PERSONAL CARE | PHOTOGRAPHY | READER'S CHOICE | SAFETY AND SECURITY | SERVICES | SMART STUFF aSTORE | SOLAR POWER | SOUND AND MUSIC | SWEDISH | THIRD WORLD | TRAVEL | TOOLS | VIDEO | WATER | WORK

TIPS AND TRICKS | APPAREL | BAR AND DRINKS | BICYCLE | CAR AND DRIVING | COMPUTERS | CULTURE AND LEARNING | GARDENING | HOME | INTERNET | KITCHEN AND COOKING | OUTDOORS | PETS | TRAVEL | WORK AND BUSINESS


Did you find the information on this site useful?
Please consider making a donation.
 If the information on our site has been entertaining and/or helpful to you, please consider leaving a donation. This will help us in our efforts to find and publish more smart stuff and to improve the site and its contents. By clicking the button below, you will be able to make a donation using PayPal, Visa or MasterCard. Any amount will be helpful and much appreciated. Thank you.


HARD TO FIND WHAT YOU WANT? TRY SEARCH!



GENERAL FAIR USE NOTICE. These pages may contain copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Smart Stuff is making this material available in an effort to advance the understanding of the workings, impact and direction of various global and national issues. We believe that this constitutes a "fair use" of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond "fair use", you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. The products, tips, tricks and ideas published on this website have not all been tried and tested by us, and you're using them entirely at your own risk. By reading these pages and using the Smart Stuff website you agree not to hold Smart Stuff HB or any of its publishers, shareholders, principals or emplyees responsible for any loss, injury or discomfort resulting from reading or using any of the products, tips, tricks and ideas published on this site. Although we work very hard to provide you with the most current and accurate information on our the siite, we can not and do not warrant that everything you see on this site is up-to-date, error-free or complete. While we may periodically add, modify or delete any of the information on the site, we do not make any commitment or assume any obligation or duty to do so, and you should assume that the information is current and up-to-date only as of the date it is posted to the site. Neither we nor any of the people involved in production of the site will be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential or punitive damages. © 2005-2010 Smart Stuff HB. Smartstuff.se has a Swedish publishing license and subsequent constitutional protection under the Freedom of Speech Act (Yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen) Chapter 1. 9 §. Provider and Publisher: Olle Zackrisson. Senior Editor and Art Director: Marie-Louise Hedman. Published by Smart Stuff HB. Version 2.2.



WABC New York on Smart Stuff






This website is worth

What is your website worth?