It's hard to know when fruit is at its peak. One day, it's solid and unripe. The next, it magically transforms into mush. Wait too much longer and you'll have blue fuzzy mold on your hands, or worse, buzzy fruit flies.

Offering a solution to wastefulness, design student Jagjit Chodha created a fruit bowl that detects mold before it grows. The bowl's attached sensors detect elevated levels of ethylene (gas emitted as fruits mature or "ripen"), and a light on the sensor will tell you when to hurry up and eat those puppies before they go bad.

This handy fruit container was created for the Made In Brunel Show at London's Brunel University. While it's not available for sale, we sure hope to see it on shelves someday. Until then, we'll have to rely on our good ol' guessing skills to know the average life span of a banana.

H/T + PicThx Mashable