Occasionally there’s an article that’s just… weird. You know, the kind of stuff that’s instantly able to turn a sour day into something incredibly awesome. Leave it to the Japanese to provide me with the one iPad article that beats them all. In fact, I don’t think anything will be able to top this for a long time. If you’ve read the headline, I think you know where this is going.

I can’t read too much Japanese (fortunately the bulk of this is in English), but this Japanese bachelor had an incredible revelation about his iPad. It’s so good, why not eat off of it?

It was the time, when I was eating sashimi at a bar, fiddling with my iPad. A slice of Tuna accidentally dropped on the iPad. At that time, I hurriedly got rid of the sashimi, wiped it off, Later I found that suddenly. In the first place, if iPad were a dish, there are no problem. Now, I introduce a revolutionary way of using iPad “iDish”.

So the iDish was invented. It’s both incredibly cool, and insanely gross if you’re a germaphobe. Instantly your dishes are given an edge of creative flair as you pluck tuna from a virtual supermarket package, or devour sushi from a virtual sushi board. A virtual dish gives new meaning to the variety of sashimi or cold tofu. In fact, you’ll never even have to buy another dish again. A palette for rice balls from the palm of your hand, a clever bowl for Shumai Dumplings; if the iPad ever needed a market to exist in, we have one now.

But alas, all good things must come to end. After much experimentation, the bachelor came to this revelation:

iDish, what did you think? After all these trials, I hesitate to say this, but overall, the impression of eating foods with iDish actually is, It’s not taste great. After all, electric device and food doesn’t much. It’s better to eat with normal dishes. And iDish is flat surface, Curry can’t be scooped. In addition, the biggest problem is,

Your iPad will be dirty.

Well, I knew that all along. I used a LCD protector, and repeated to use and wash every time. However, after some trials, that became confusing, and I put salmon sashimi directly on the iPad screen. My iPad got fishy smell. You need to be careful. For all of these reasons, even if you are interested in iDish after reading this article, I don’t recommend you to do it with your iPad.

So while the iPad may never be your next dinner tray, you can at least rest easy knowing that it is possible; that somebody daring and enthusiastic enough was just crazy enough to try.

[via d.hatena.ne.jp]