I found this candy at stupid.com and it belongs here. A person can order gum that is shaped like pieces of technology, such as a Game Boy, a computer mouse, or a DVD.
Given the size of the gum relative to the size of the hand in the image, the gum is unrealistically big. The average size of a piece of gum is about the size of a nickel or so. The Game Boy gum alone is the width of the hand’s four fingers! It is impractical to chew this gum because you either are going to have a piece of gum the width of your fingers in your mouth or are going to have to rip up the gum and wrap up the remainder. Look at this image of various types of gum. The Game Boy gum is the width of stride package or the 5 gum package! There’s a reason why an average piece of gum is a nickel in diameter, is long and thin, or is thick and short. These gum manufacturers know that their consumers don’t want to save part of their gum for later, they want the whole piece and the only purpose of the wrapper is to cleanly dispose of a flavorless piece.
As a novelty piece, it works or could be fun, but it’s just too big to enjoy through its intended purpose, chewing.
As a practical food, it may be more reasonable to make technology based gummy fruit-flavored foods, like gummy bears but with iPods and laptops, but keep within the traditional size of those snacks. I did a google search for Tech Gummy Fruit and could not find any results that would suggest that these snacks already exist, but they would be delicious.
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