{"id":12611,"date":"2014-11-24T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12611"},"modified":"2017-04-18T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T17:53:29","slug":"chopsticks-of-the-future-will-count-your-calorie-intake-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/chopsticks-of-the-future-will-count-your-calorie-intake-for-you","title":{"rendered":"Chopsticks Of The Future Will Count Your Calorie Intake For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"name fn\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/juliethomson\/\" rel=\"author\"> Julie R. Thomson<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Huffington Post<\/div>\n<div class=\"info\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BChk6WOBjsA?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While normally just a vehicle to get food from plate to mouth, chopsticks have been capable of some pretty incredible feats \u2014 like creating a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/04\/09\/jackie-chan-red-hongyi-chopsticks_n_5119854.html\" target=\"_hplink\">larger-than-life portrait of Jackie Chan<\/a>. And in the very near future, they\u2019re being programed to do a whole lot more.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese search engine Baidu is working on a technology for chopsticks, called Kuaisou, that\u2019ll enable them to test PH levels, the temperature of food and track nutritional information. They\u2019ll also be able to detect the freshness of oils, helping to prevent the use of contaminated foods like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2013\/10\/28\/you-may-never-eat-street-food-in-china-again-after-watching-this-video\/\" target=\"_hplink\">gutter oil<\/a>. (Gutter oil is something that should never \u2014 EVER \u2014 exist, but does in Chinese and Taiwanese street food.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/09\/23\/smart-chopsticks-count-calories_n_5862752.html?cps=gravity\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julie R. Thomson \u2014 Huffington Post While normally just a vehicle to get food from plate to mouth, chopsticks have been capable of some pretty incredible feats \u2014 like creating a larger-than-life portrait of Jackie Chan. And in the very near future, they\u2019re being programed to do a whole lot more. Chinese search engine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52351,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions\/52351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}