Peering into a grocery store bin, it's hard to tell if a peach or tomato or avocado is starting to go bad underneath its skin. But an affordable camera technology being developed by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research might enable consumers of the future to tell which piece of fruit is perfectly ripe or what's rotting in the fridge.

Originally released by American Institute of Physics, 2016. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 09, 2016.