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Imagine sitting down at the dinner table and not knowing if the food in front of you is safe to eat. For many people in Japan that situation is a reality, and while the government has been issuing information about what is okay to eat and what is not, it is also the same government that earlier said that the levels of radioactivity at the Fukushima plant would not be as dire as Chernobyl. The Fukushima Plate, by Nils Ferber lets ordinary Japanese citizens make their own judgement. It is a clean white plate with a built-in radioactive meter that can visually show you your food's level of contamination. While the design, which features OLED lights that change color depending on how radioactive your meal is, is quite pretty to look at, it is also a real tool which could, in some cases, mean the difference between life or death.
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Post tags: Design for Health, eco design, fukushima plate, fukushima reactor, green design, japan disaster, japan radiation, nils ferber, OLED, radiation detecting plate, radiation levels, sustainable design
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