Sensible ASUS made an absolutely unexpected kitchen gadget
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Sensible ASUS made an absolutely unexpected kitchen gadget
There is no shortage of iot devices with niches used out there, but today Asus of all companies launched one of the most interesting ones we have ever seen. Asus Purego PD100 is a new smart device that can help you determine when your fruits and vegetables are well cleaned and ready to eat. Not only that, but Asus said it can also help you develop the habit of washing fruits and vegetables that are better than time to time.
What did Asus Purego PD100 do?
The right fruit and vegetable washing method might not be an urgent problem to most outside the professional kitchen, but with PD100, Asus made the case should. By soaking the purego PD100 into water with the intended fruits and vegetables, the device can notify you if they are clean and ready for consumption or if they need more washing.
To do this, Purego uses optical sensors that detect pesticides and other residues in water. This idea seems to be vegetables and fruits soaking in the bathtub will leech things that are not pleasant, therefore provide a sensor impurity to be detected. Optical sensors are protected by finned filters, and use “dynamic algorithms” to determine that food is safe to eat.
It seems quite easy, in fine mold, Asus said that Purego could “detect around 70%” from pesticides used in the US in 2020, so it might not be a completely easy detection method in that. It also cannot test a handful of fruits and vegetables, including spinach Okinawa, Amaranth Red, Strawberry, Mushrooms, cloud’s ear mushrooms, seaweed, and enoki mushrooms, but it seems that everything will return accurate test results.
How to use the asus purego pd100
Using Purego seems like an easy process. First, Asus said users would need to wash their fruits and vegetables as usual before allowing them to soak in a shower of water for 2-3 minutes. While they soak, pesticides and other residues will start to dissolve. After the soaking is finished, place purego in the bathtub and use running water to rinse fruits and vegetables. Purego will then detect dirt and provide reading using the indicator ring.
If the indicator ring turns green, it means that your food is ready to eat, while red or orange means there is still dirt there and you have to repeat the soaking phase and test again. ASUS has also collected Purego applications that can record historical data on your testing, which has the potential to help users improve the habit of cleaning their food.
At the end of it, it looks like Purego can be a useful device if you worry you don’t cleanse your fruits and vegetables before eating it, but the peace of mind comes at a fairly steep price: $ 199.99. If the price label is not enough to block your purchase and you live in North America, you can find Purego on the Asus website starting today.
