The Fukushima Plate, developed by German designer Nils Ferber, is a kitchen plate with built-in radioactive meter to visualize food’s level of contamination. According to Nils, it may be “an indispensable tool of survival in the future.” Firstly, yikes! But secondly, I find this fascinating and a very interesting concept - users can set values on the radiation detector in accordance with Ferber’s belief that a government’s citizens often hold vastly different personal beliefs than government food agencies when it comes to the quality of the food they’re consuming. Three levels of lighting rings indicate varying low to high levels of radiation present in the plate’s food. Unsettling, but fascinating.

- Maggie