Japan is a country that develops strange things, it has been doing so for decades, and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. Recently a company in the Land of the Rising Sun, created a robot that is capable of feeding runners tomatoes on the fly.
Japanese tomato-product manufacturer Kagome has a lot to gain from the success of this robot, but not much to lose if it fails. In all honesty, the product does look a bit dumb, but we can see where it makes sense when it comes down to nutrition for runners.
An employee for Kagome, who goes by the name Shigenori Suzuki, will run this weekend at the Tokyo Marathon, and he'll be wearing the tomato dispensing robot on his back. The robot is capable of holding up to 6 tomatoes, and will bring them one-by-one to the mouth of the wearer whenever he deems it fit. It means that while Suzuki is running, he can quench his thirst with tomato juice instead of water.
