Monday, April 26, 2010

You are what you eat


Good _________! (Fill in the blank accordingly to your time zone). So, the beginning of another week, some people like starting things, it feels like a fresh beginning, leaving past things behind. For me, I might like starting a week, but is way more awesome to finish it and remember what made it worth living… won't you agree? In either case… happy beginning of week!

There are certain things that happen to us every day… waking up, shower (for some), eating, talking, you name it. I wish we could help to make our lives better at least in these basic task that we perform every day… ever heard about eating and resting well? Sure we live rushed by our schedules, squeezing every little second and make it count, sadly there's little time left to worry about how to improve these tiny but paramount details… what to do?

Take eating for instance, nowadays we simply eat what we please (not saying it's wrong) and not what we need to be healthier. Open the fridge, scan the inside, and in less than 10 seconds you see what's available, you heat it up and voilá! A bit of salt, pepper, a drink and you are ready to go. Maybe you're not that lucky and you couldn't make it home and you gotta eat elsewhere… eating simply what's available (of your own liking, of course). Oh yeah, that's for us our daily diet… any way to improve that? Well, you can definitely think about a trillion plans how to, but I will tell you a way I'm sure you never came across with and it will be part of your future!

Let's say you have a great diet, you take care of all nutriments you need and life is great… need an extra help? No problem, just take your spoon and you're done… what? Ok, let me rephrase that… just take your 'intelligent' spoon and you're done! How a spoon can be intelligent? Well, not that it is, let's say is simply less dumb than all other utensils at your place. What this little bad boy does is to analyze your food as soon as it gets in touch with it and tells you all sort of info about it. Let's say you're always unsure about how hot is your soup, you need to take a scary sip to check it out… most of the times you're lucky enough and all is good, but what about that one time when you had to spit it out because no one told you how hot it was? This spoon can tell you how hot the food is… cool huh? And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Other food qualities can be measured, such as how salty the food is, its acidity and viscosity, but it doesn't stop there. Since it can be paired to your computer, it can tell you, for instance, if there's enough salt to make your dish taste better… now that's what I'm talking about! Magic? Nearly. I bet you never thought you'd be needing one of these, but if you ever have one, it's going to sound almost too good to be truth. Need to say this spoon is still some sort of prototype, so we might need to wait a bit to see them in our kitchen drawers. Price? Hard to say, but I dare to say it won't be as expensive as you may think, 20 USD? Sounds fair to me.

Any other good ideas to make our lives a bit better? Sure here's one, hope to see them soon in stores. Have you heard of any other device from the future to help us have a healthier/better/less complicated life? Drop a line in the comment section and start to save some money to get these awesome gadgets! Sure they'll be a hit! See y'all next Thursday!

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