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10: Banana Protective Device

It's important to protect the things you care about with special cases. A padded bag for your laptop, a plastic case for your iPod, maybe a briefcase for important documents … but what about your fruit?

Have you really thought about how to protect it?

Specifically, we're talking about one easily bruised, strangely shaped yellow fruit. That's right, it's the banana.

Until now, there hasn't been a special case designed to cater to the banana's unusual needs.

Those packing lunches have always depended on the thick yellow casing that nature gave the banana to get the job done, and far too often, they've been left with brown, bruised, smelly bananas.

Thank God those days are done. At last, the banana doesn't have to go naked anymore.