This Skittles sorting machine solves the ultimate first world problem

Feb21

by Sindy Cator on February 21, 2017 at 12:17 am

Tropical Skittles are my jam. Well, except the yellow ones; fuck you Banana Berry. Willem Pennings, a Dutch inventor, feels my pain. After seeing a color-sorting machine years back, Pennings decided to create his own and use it for the ultimate good: to sort shitty Skittles flavors so we don’t have to eat them. Pro tip: it also works for M&M’s. But Mars has already confirmed that color doesn’t impact taste (it’s literally just food coloring) so maybe you should get over yourself. Over a five month period, the mechanical engineering student dropped nearly €500 ($537) to create 2017’s version of the…