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Japan: Company Creates Wearable Robot

As you learned about in that story, creativity is highly valued in today's society. Luckily, we're pretty creative here in the buckeye state. In a recent list of the 50 most creative cities in the United States, Cincinnati ranked at number eight and Cleveland landed at number 28.

New inventions often come from creative minds, including this contraption out of Japan.

You're looking at a robot that feeds you tomatoes while you run.

Japanese company Kagome created the "Tomatan". All you have to do is tug on a tiny lever, which activates the arm to deliver a tomato right into your mouth while you're running.

Tomatoes have lots of nutrition and are said to help combat fatigue. An employee for the company will wear the invention this weekend in the Tokyo Marathon.

stephanie.jarvis@ideastream.org | 216-916-6340