Say hello to the talking wine label

Finally, a toy for grownups. Reuters reports that “a ‘talking’ wine label could soon tell consumers in Italy everything they want to know about a particular bottle—from its production history to the kind of food it should accompany.” A company called Modulgraf plans to launch the product in Milan’s November wine fair. It’s actually a small chip that, when implanted in the bottle, can be listened to “with a small device about the size of a cigarette package.”