· Utensils haven’t been exciting since the introduction of the Freeloader Fork. Now, get ready for eating to be fun again with the Zing!catapult spoon. It improves your food fighting skills without breaking the necks of all your spoons and makes eating soup very very interesting. [BaronBob/SeriousEats]

· For those of you who wonder what it is like to be competitive eater, you can now find out for yourself. Major League Eating: The Game has been released on Nintendo Wii. Players have to eat food, win burping wars, and avoid jalapeño flames with the help of a silhouetted stomach that lets the player know how much room they have let to devour hot dogs. The game is meant to recreate the furious action of being a professional eater and features international eating champions. [MLEGame]

· What do urban farming, buying local and eating organic have in common? They are all food trends! Now it’s time to add one more to the list. Get this, vertical farming. This type of farming is meant to take urban farming a step further. Instead of buying several pieces land for urban farms, vertical farming buys one piece of land and builds a building that houses several floors of greenhouses. But would it ever work in Philadelphia? Not anytime soon. With real estate being so expensive, the dream of growing vertical farms is just that, a dream. [MenuPages]