Sorting limes - GIF

[Jon]

Sorting limes. No, I don't know a practical use for this (to sell different-sized limes at different prices?). Still cool.




Previously:
Croissant sorting robot

[mklotz]

The principle is used in many size-sorting applications but I must admit I've never seen it done with PVC and a lawn chair.

Folks from second and third world countries make excellent (homemade) tool designers. They're used to simplistic solutions using available materials.

[Jon]

Agreed. Like in Cuba, I think once North Korea opens up we'll get to see some very ingenious inventions, especially farming devices.

Interestingly, North Korea actually has a very limited internet, which you can search by adding site:kp to any Google query. I've tried poking around to see if anything of interest to us comes up, but most of what I've found is North Korean mainstream media reports on technological developments, which are very vaguely presented, and seem to be many years behind the rest of the world.

[mklotz]

It's very sad. For those of us who missed WWII, it's sort of a rerun of what the Nazi hype over Hitler must have been like in the buildup to the invasion of Poland, and even perhaps after.

I watched a television documentary about a humanitarian ophthalmologist team who managed to get permission to go to NK and perform free cataract surgery.

A whole auditorium full of still-bandaged patients was shown. As the bandages were removed, each and every person, newly able to see, rushed to the front of the room and loudly thanked and praised a picture of Kim Jong Un, pointedly ignoring the medical team that had done the surgery, standing to the side.

I'm sure these folks were instructed (threatened?) to do this but the very fact that the government can control people like this speaks volumes about what's transpiring there.

[Frank S]

Limes, lemons, Apples, oranges, eggs, and just about everything else have differing prices for size , shape color etc.
I would suspect that the largest limes are probably destined to be sold in markets where the chefs buy produce for the more affluent
the smallest of the limes might not even make it to market at all or be sold in bulk for processing into non food stuffs or dried and ground for seasonings

[Frank S]

As Marv stated it being sad for most of who were not born before WWII do not realize the hardships our parents or possibly grand parents or possibly even great grand parents for the younger ones, endured the world over during the reign of Hitler.
I don't want to carry this thread down a path of no return,but if someone would like to start a thread for discussion purposes in the appropriate forum I have a few theories a few things I feel has and is happening in the world today and my reasons for my thinking the way I do.
I will say though that through the years I have visited around 70 countries, worked in a dozen or more of them and lived from 6 months to 10 years in quite a few. I have witnessed the ingenuity of the honest hard working poorer citizens just trying to eke out a living for themselves in places most of us would throw our hands up and quit.

[Jon]

[neilbourjaily]

Sizer! not sorter.

[mklotz]

Sizer! not sorter.

Or perhaps it's a sorter that sorts on size.