Post by Audrey Carlsen, The Salt at NPR Food (2/21/13)
Fresh produce has never been hipper.
Need proof? Check out this video of Brooklyn-based songwriter-producer-artist extraordinaire Jonathan Dagan, better known as J.Viewz, playing a beautiful — and just plain awesome — cover of Massive Attack's 1998 hit "Teardrop" on a variety of fruits and vegetables.
J.Viewz is using a cool little circuit board called the MaKey MaKey (pronounced may-kee may-kee) that allows you to hook almost anything up to a keyboard.
![The MaKey MaKey uses basic principles of circuitry to turn any object -- even an apple -- into a keyboard key. Illustration: Jay Silver/Flickr](http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/makeymakey_custom-174b28ff35852dadef80e0a64152c8ed6bfcc838.jpg)
The concept is simple. All you need to do is connect three things to the MaKey MaKey – a computer, a fun object, and yourself. By touching the object, you close the circuit, and a signal is sent to the MaKey MaKey. The circuit board then translates this electronic signal into a keyboard signal, which is sent to your computer.