Point This Magical Scanner At Your Food And It Will Count The Calories

[Archean]

Point This Magical Scanner At Your Food And It Will Count The Calories

Developed by entrepreneur Isabel Hoffman and York University math professor Stephen Watson, TellSpec is a raman spectrometer (the same kind of technology used in Jack Andraka's $15 cancer-detecting device) that uses an algorithm to calculate what's in your food.

I doubt it will have much impact on expanding waistlines ............

 

[bobcat]

Highly interesting, though

Hoffman and Watson have yet to make a prototype of the product they plan on selling.

While I have reservations about its accuracy, if and when it is marketed, I expect it will sell like...hot cakes.

 

[SNGX1275]

There has to be smartphone apps that scan barcodes and give you nutritional information right?

 

[Archean]

That can only work for 'processed' food, not home cooked stuff. Anyway, I am skeptical about how much useful this thing is. Beside, imagine pulling this out to check calories in food during a party or something .........

 

[SNGX1275]

For home cooked you'd just enter... Chicken 6oz. For other things you know your amount of each raw ingredient, which likely has a bar code. I just don't see how this is worth the price (although how is it so cheap anyway?).

 

[BlckCat]

The device feels like a scam. I agree, it probably will sell like hotcakes. All those calorie counting devices and apps are always popular

 

[cliffordcooley]

impact on expanding waistlines

Forget about counting calories, smaller and fewer plates will work every time.

 

[Archean]

cliffordcooley
It does, but unfortunately, not many can resist the temptation when it comes to good food.

 

[davislane1]

Alternatively, exercise four days a week and forget about the calories altogether.