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Enter The Fruit Ninja

Fruit Ninja, the wildly popular mobile app, lets its users slice up fruits with ninja-like precision. But the big news this week, is that the game has been adapted for the Xbox 360 Kinect, making your fake fruit-slicing a bit realer.

Using the Kinect motion detector, you can now flail your arms about, score points, and provide ingredients for your virtual fruit salad. Go ninja!

[via Mashable]

These Cute Claymation Creatures Really Hate Fruit

If you enjoy morbidly adorable claymation creatures and gratuitous fruit violence — and who doesn’t? — then do we have the video for you.

Created by Jack Conte, the guy half of the music duo Pomplamoose, the video is just one of his New Video Every Week project. And he’s apparently either a staunch meat eater, or a self-hating vegan. You be the judge.

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This Fruit Art Is The Pits

fruit-pit-carving — Photo: npm.gov, Click to Enlarge

As most of us in the western world will attest, the fruit pit is a nuisance — something picked out of our produce, or eaten around and discarded. Or, in the case of those god-awful watermelon pits, enthusiastically gathered in our cheek and spit across the picnic table.

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The Colors You Should Be Eating

With help from the Union Square Greenmarket and Photoshop, Malaysian-born artist Tattfoo Tan created the Nature Matching System. By photographing produce and then pinpointing colors using Photoshop’s eyedrop tool, Tan created a sort of Pantone swatch book for nutrition.

But instead of matching spot and process colors like Pantone, the NMS and its 88 colors represent naturally occurring phytochemicals and beneficial nutrients — encouraging us to eat by color.

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