Building the perfect banana

Everyday life offers plenty of reminders that we do not live in a perfect world, from the release of new Ashton Kutcher movies to pieces of damaged fruit. We may have to accept that Ashton won’t go away, but not so bruised bananas. Some clever folks in the U.K. are selling individual plastic banana-storage containers. The “Banana Guard” promises to make the vexing problem of “banana trauma” a thing of the past, with a “patented device” that protects the fruit while keeping the ripening process going with an intricate ventilation system.