Wear This Robot On Your Back: It'll Feed You Tomatoes

Looking to run a marathon and worried about not having anyone feed you tomatoes? Well worry no more.

Introducing: Tomatan

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Tomatan is a cute little robot built by the Japanese company Kagome Co. , a company that sells tomatoes and tomato products; Kagome hopes that tomatoes will become the snack of choice for runners.

Strap it on your back and go

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Tomatan weighs a total of 18 pounds, and boasts space for 7 tomatoes to feed the hungry runner- and no worries about mowing through all of these tomatoes at once, there's a timer that will help you pace your tomato consumption.

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This face should be a meme.

Making its grand appearance: The Tokyo race

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This small humanoid robot is intended to be strapped on your back and carried throughout your run- like a toddler getting a piggy-back ride (except for longer than 1 minute). Kagome's researcher, Shigenori Suzuki will don the Petit-Tomatan, a smaller version of the invention, at the Tokyo Race this Sunday; the Petit weighs approximately 7 pounds and fits snuggly on a runner's shoulders (no blisters!).

How does it work??

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There's a tiny little lever under the robot's foot that turns on its feeding power- so tickle the robot's foot, and the robot's hands will reach behind its back, catch a tomato, and feed it to you.

So throw away that DIY stick with a donut, and get the robot.

Since Tomatoes combat fatigue, why not snack on half a dozen when you run, right?

watch the video here.