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Table 1 Detailed results of the Apple Peeling Test

From: Innovation explosion catalysed by foresight-results of an experiment

Mechanical

Other Physical

Chemical

Biological

Out-of-the-box

1. Knife

2. Knife & fork

3. Razor

4. Scissors

5. Nail-cutter

6. File

7. Other sharp tools

8. Metal rubbing

9. Medical tools

10. Surface rubbing

11. By hand & nails

12. Mouth and teeth

13. Manual peeler machine

14. Automatic peeler machine

15. Cutting in pieces

16. Pulping fruit

17. Juice-making

18. Adhesive tapes

19. Ceramic wheel

20. Dentist tools

21. Emory polishing wheel

22. Pulp remove by vacuum

23. Spoon-eating pulp …

1. Pressure

2. Air

3. Deep freezing

4. Heating

5. Fluidization

6. Electricity

7. Ball-mill – Other types of milling

8. Adsorption

9. Sand-blowing

10. Fan

11. Other vortex

12. Special Robots

13. Microparticles

14. Microwaves

15. Ultra sound

16. Laser

17. Strong radiation

18. Solar drying

19. Solarium

20. Strong magnet (use of metal particles)

21. Fall from height

22. Carry on Formula1 /Rocket

23. Anti-matter

1. Water (boiling)

2. Steam

3. Acids

4. Alkalis

5. Salts

6. Baking

7. Barbecue

8. Frying

9. Controlled combustion

10. Catalysis

11. Electrochemistry

12. Oxidation

13. Chlorination

14. Photochemistry

15. Radiochemistry

16. Special chemical cream

17. Organic solvent

18. Super-critical conditions

19. Plasma

20. Nano-tech degradation

1. Enzymes

2. Microbial pulp conversion

3. Microbial peel conversion

4. Consumption by birds

5. Consumption by rodents

6. Special insects

7. Hormone injection

8. No-peel fruit by genetic eng.

9. Edible peel by genetic eng.

10. Easy to peel fruit by genetic eng.

11. After fruit rots

12. Bio-magnetism

13. Using the ecosystem

14. Improving human digestion to assimilate peel

1. No peeling!

2. No apples for all

3. Let somebody else do it

4. Delegate to a bureaucrat

5. We paint it

6. We imagine it

7. By telepathy

8. By faith-religion

9. Virtual Reality – Animation

10. Topological model

11. Mathematics

12. Use of computer virus/antivirus (apple = file)

13. Scanner – Erase by Paint Brush

14. Lucky Luck: With his guns

15. Ninja: With their swords

16. Use apple as ball in 4X4 football game

SPECIAL MENTION

24. Opening a hole to the centre – turning fruit inside-out

SPECIAL MENTION

24. Nano-tubes for selective removal and use of pulp

SPECIAL MENTION

21. Intelligent green chemical lysis of peel-pulp bonds

SPECIAL MENTION

15. Use of Artificial BΞΉo-Intelligence (bio-info-nano)

SPECIAL MENTION

17. Application of the Banach – Tarski paradox