“We see a huge market for food,” Hu “Tiger” Tao, a postdoc at Tufts University told Co.Exist. “People are always looking forward to some kind of sensor that’s easy to use and gives you information about spoilage.”

Sometimes the comments, when the audience is as clever and techie as Fast Co.’s is, are as interesting as the story itself.  Click the image above, and if you are short on time read the blurb about the technology and then just scroll down to the reader comments.