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Mangesh Hattikudur
Advice by the Spoon-ful
by Mangesh Hattikudur - April 27, 2006 - 10:03 AM

spoon2.jpg If you’re the sort of awful cook who refuses to sample your own pudding for fear of chipping a tooth, then MIT has just the gadget for you. Still in development, the cats at the prestigious university are busy creating an intelligent spoon that hooks up to a computer to evaluate your cooking as you’re doing it. While it works just like a regular spoon (for stirring and whatnot), it also calculates the salinity, viscosity, acidity and temperature of what you’re making. Then it advises you to add a little more flour, or sugar, or put it on a flame, or whatever. According to the website, it can even tell the user “if there is not enough salt in the brine prepared to make pickles.”

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  1. Heh. This would make a fantastic wedding gift, but I’m pretty sure I could break it just by using it once or twice. “You need more flour! and sugar! and heat! And salt! And dkeoaiwnerm$*#^” [spoon-computer overloads with recommendations and blows up]

    posted by Mary on 4-27-2006 at 10:12 am

  2. I need a spoon that will tell me “Will, you’ve really had enough cookie dough or cake batter or whatever you’re having too much of” and after two warnings will actually shock me. Wow, that might actually be a good idea. Imagine a spoon that you could set to 15 bites and after that it would start saying things like “Hey fatty, don’t you think it’s time to slow down?”

    posted by Will on 4-27-2006 at 11:36 am

  3. Will, I think this is more or less what you’re looking for:

    http://presentpicker.com/ppp/rep/Talking–Cop–Cookie–Jar.html

    posted by Mary on 4-27-2006 at 12:43 pm

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