The Popinator - the only way to eat popcorn

It’s hard to decide whether it’s more of a game inspired by food or food inspired by games, but whatever it is, the Popinator is still kind of genius. Completely removing fingers from one of the world’s most popular finger foods, the Popinator uses your voice to calculate the near-exact location of your mouth. Just say the magic word “Pop,” and it shoots a single piece of pop corn straight into your mouth—thereby streamlining the whole snacking process. Just imagine 50 years from now,we’ll be telling our kids how we used to have to eat popcorn with our hands! Oh, those were dark dark days.

As explained by Popcorn Indiana’s “Electrical Engineer” Ted, no two pieces of popcorn are alike, so there may be a tiny bit of maneuvering required to make sure the Popinator’s packages get exactly where they need to go, but hey, it’s all just “part of the fun.” And for all its in exactitude, the binaural microphone array used by the Popinator is still surprisingly remarkable (i.e., if you recorded someone saying“pop” on a smartphone, the Popinator would most definitely fire its projectiles at the phone). Take that Apple.

Tragically, there has been no word yet regarding whether Popcorn Indiana plans on ever commercializing the thing, but if they don’t, I’m sure we’d have grounds to sue them for submitting us all to extremely cruel and unusual punishment.

Watch the cool video below to see it in action.