Move aside, Apple Watch: These fruit-based devices are the future of wearables

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The lead-up to the Tokyo Marathon seems to have given rise to a new breed of wearable technology: fruit-based gadgets.

Sure, your Fitbit can count your steps or track your heart rate, but how about feed you a tomato or tell you when to eat a banana? That's the ostensible problem that two food producers set out to tackle with newly unveiled products that combine fitness with fruit — both designed for the 2015 Tokyo Marathon this weekend.

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Japanese ketchup maker Kagome designed an 18-pound tomato-dispensing backpack. The unwieldy device is a tomato-headed humanoid robot that straddles a runner's shoulders with an arm that swoops down on command to deploy tomatoes to a runner's mouth. Read more...

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