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Week 11 [05.06-11.06.2017] Ripe or not?

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Imagine yourself a situation when you’ve got your recipe,  you’re in the store, you found ingredients, but how can you tell if it will have the right flavor or if it needs more time to ripen?
Scientists from University of Washington, discovered a way to check the ripeness with your phone. In a project funded by Microsoft, the scientists have made a special camera, which would cost about $800. 

The technology is called a hyperspectral camera, and basically, whereas most cameras only see a few wavelengths of the color spectrum, this camera can see 17, which gives it the ability to see more definition, and would actually be able to see under the skin of your produce.

Hyperspectral imaging is already being used to help make sure works of art are not fake, as well as in safety inspections.
It’s said that the camera is 94% correct about the ripeness, and can also be used on produce in your home. 


http://www.vttresearch.com/media/news/the-consumer-of-the-future-will-use-a-mobile-phone-to-monitor-his-environment


I had a chance to personally use this device and have to admit I was amazed with it. It's very interesting how single products you use while cooking can completely change the taste of the dish. On a downside I have to admit I spent way more time on shopping, trying to find the perfect banana or avocado.
I also know that the device is very common across the United States of America. The top restaurants check their products in every detail to make sure the food they're offering is the best quality.

In this short video we can see how it actually works:



Questions:
1. Could you find another use for this device?
2. What do you think about the whole concept?  
3. Have you ever used hyperspectral camera? 

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Magdalena Popek said…
I have never had a chance of using a hyperspectral camera. I think that such device can be really useful, as you mentioned, for restaurants. For the best of them even the slightest change in taste can result in a dish of a lower quality. However I wouldn't use it in everyday life. You can state the ripeness of fruit of vegetables following some basic rules (sniffing the bottom of a pinapple or checking if avokado is soft).
6 June 2017 at 20:50
Unknown said…
I entirely agree with Magda. This device seems to be useful for restaurants, however, I don't feel the need to use it on daily basis while shopping. To my mind, it's another type of machine trying to replace human's brain and ability to think, thus consider surrounding and making decisions.
6 June 2017 at 23:05
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8 June 2017 at 02:47
Unknown said…
I agree with girls above. I don't think that such device is necessary for everyday routine, but it may be helpful. But I can see application for not only restaurant - for example fruits and vegetables delivery - when you are getting tones of products you can't check every single on of them, but still you want to deliver a highest quality products, so using such device may be easier and quicker way of checking products, when there is many of them.
9 June 2017 at 09:42
Jakub Mańkowski said…
I wouldn't use it in my everyday life - maybe restaurants have a lot of time and equipment to choose every fruit to be perfect. I will just do it with my eyes and hand, it worked for 20 years, and I think it will still do. Art checking seems great and that is area where it can be implemented widely. Would like to see how the art image checking process looks like in reality. Camera is way to pricey to use it on daily basis - I think 100$ is max for that kind or gadget to be used freuqently.
9 June 2017 at 18:05
Unknown said…
I think the conception of this camera is very interesting and there would be a lot of more useful purpose, than scan every single fruit in shopping mall to find a good one using camera for couple hundreds dollars.
9 June 2017 at 19:36
Unknown said…
Hi, thanks for your comment. That's definitely a valid point.
10 June 2017 at 17:16
Unknown said…
Hi all, thanks for your comments.
Have you thought about any other use for such a device?
10 June 2017 at 17:28
Unknown said…
Thanks for your comment.
10 June 2017 at 17:38
Unknown said…
Interesting device. Very helpful in mentioned causes but still it might be too expensive for an average shopper/veggie enthuasiast. Food service companies such as restaurants, fast food (yeah, sure), other who want's to offer high quality food will surely make more use of that.
It may find it's use in a health industry as well. Scanning skin, veins, it can tell much about person's health.
And I just wonder... can it see ghosts in my room? I would find it useful if so.
10 June 2017 at 19:39
KamilG said…
Hyperspectral camera is a great idea and it can be used not only to check ripeness of fruits and vegetables. If this kind of camera sees 17 wavelengths I think it is possible to check quality of parts of machines which are joined by soldering (checking if they are strong and good enough to be used). The camera cost is not so high in exchange for such great feature of this item.
11 June 2017 at 09:24
Michał Pycek said…
I have never heard of this kind of device nor camera, however it could be useful not only in restaurants, but also on the daily basis when you find a recipe and are not sure whether you would like the raste of the dish. I agree with the comment above that it may be a good application to use it in health industry in order to check the condition of our bodies.
11 June 2017 at 09:49
Unknown said…
I never used hyperspectral camera. This reminds me of hdr (high dynamic range) photos. HDR is to present a similar range of luminance to that experienced through the human visual system. From what I understand hyperspectral camera sees more than human eye? I don't understand how precisely we can verify with it the maturity of fruit and how specifically it works.
11 June 2017 at 11:40
Unknown said…
That sounds really promising! Great topic, I havent heard about hyperspectral camera before, but it seems really cool. I would use that in everyday life for my grocery shopping, for checking my teeth or condition of my skin, hear or whatever...I hope that in near future it will be wide available for people. If we could make googles with that, would it work similar to night-vision devices? I wonder...
11 June 2017 at 15:33
Ihor Ahnianikov said…
Thanks for an interesting topic, I haven't heard about this camera before. I thought that using ultrasound or X-rays is the only way to view the inner structure of an object, if you can see it even within the small depth range with a simple camera it's just awesome. Detecting fraud and checking products are the main purposes I can think of.
11 June 2017 at 18:44
Shashkov Oleksii said…
Unfortunately I've never heard or used a hyperspectral camera , but it looks very useful for use in everyday life , since , as was shown in the video , how well you brush your teeth , and finishing with a choice of almost spoiled food. But unfortunately I think not many large firms will integrate these cameras into your smartphone, even if it is pretty cheap.
11 June 2017 at 18:45
Unknown said…
I have never heard about this and i really cant imagine some other device where it could be use. That concept is good but it has to be more prepered because some normal person cant afford for that. I have never used hyperspectral camera.
11 June 2017 at 19:30
Andrzej Gulak said…
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11 June 2017 at 20:55
Mieczysław Szumilak said…
I never heard about this technology. I don't find it useful for me, to much time wasting to find a perfect banana. The camera could be useful in top class restaurants, where you pay a hundred of dolars for a one bite dish.
11 June 2017 at 22:20
Unknown said…
I've never heard of this camera and never used it, but it's sounds interesting. Honestly, I always have problems with avocados. I love them so much, but I'm always spending so much time trying to choose the ripe ones. On the other side, I'm not sure I'll buy this camera even for 50 backs. However, I think it's worth its money in case of this camera in the toothbrush. Such use of the camera can save health and money of a lot of people. I just imagined how wonderful it would be to know that there is something wrong with your teeth at the early stage.
11 June 2017 at 22:40
Łukasz Grzybowski said…
For me, the concept may be interesting, but it is a gadget for me that I don't really need. I haven't had an occasion to use this device. If I had an occasion to use it, I would even know what to use it for.
11 June 2017 at 23:12
Unknown said…
I have never used it and never heard about this concept. Of course, it is quite interesting information, but for me it will be just information:) ok, I admit, it would even be kind of fun to play with that camera at the grocery store, but I wouldn't use it. I love to cook. Unfortunately is happens not so often, because I just don't have time even to eat sometimes:) but when I do, I go to the store and choose the right products by myself, it is the ritual, no soulless machine needed:))
But I agree that this is a cool and useful device for restaurants
11 June 2017 at 23:13
Łukasz Domeradzki said…
I'm pretty sure this will come useful in many restaurants and likewise, but I personally don't find it useful for myself. I'm bad person to ask actually, since I don't cook a lot, and if I do then I'm almost never doing it the proper way anyway :).

Still, it's definitely interesting technology to have, and perhaps its usefulness will be proven in the future.
11 June 2017 at 23:14
Krzysztof Lichota said…
I've never used this type of camera. Honestly, this is the first time I'm hearing about this. I think this is great idea. I'm not sure if checking vegetables is really that important bu for sure this technology can be used in so many different divisions. I think the whole concept is great and I'm really looking forward to learn more about it. Like I said, I think using this to check how fresh vegetables are is useless. It will only increase amount of food that we have been already wasting. And this is not so good. Can you imagine all those people looking for perfect avocado? Just think about chemicals that farmers would put on theirs avocado to make them fresh longer. Not so great idea in the long term perspective.
11 June 2017 at 23:14
Adam Paśniczek said…
I think this kind of technology could be useful. Especially for a restaurant owners who would like to serve best quality dishes. No, I haven’t use this camera. I guess that this technology should be more extended if we want to use it in our everyday life. Maybe more options or a good design like e.g. Snapseed. But surely it could be a good device in the future.
11 June 2017 at 23:43
Unknown said…
It's an interesting topic, I never heard about a camera like this. I can already see many uses for it, I think it would be useful for any of us while shopping (provided it's cheap, handy, fast and even better - if it was a smartphone app ;) ). I would gladly try it out. I'm not surprised that the best restaurants use it.
12 June 2017 at 02:07
Bartosz Łyżwa said…
Wow, I haven't heard about this technology yet but it's really interesting and I just want to try it :D. It looks pretty useful in many cases like shopping, restaurants, and maybe medicine. Is there a possibility to try and check hyperspectral camera in Poland?
12 June 2017 at 23:09
Vyvyan said…
I wouldn't use it in my everyday life. I will just do it with my eyes and hand as it is faster and it worked 'till now. In addition I believe that art would gain in using this device the most. Still Camera is way to expensive to use it on daily basis for literally nothing important.
8 September 2017 at 14:59
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