Smart chopsticks can assess food safety
SEP 04, 2014
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028226
Guardian : China has suffered a number of food scandals in recent years—from toxic milk to glow-in-the-dark pork to recycled cooking oil. To determine whether food is safe to eat, a set of “smart” chopsticks has been developed. When linked with a smartphone app, they can indicate the levels of freshness, contamination, and nutrition of the food they touch. The product is the brainchild of Baidu, the Chinese version of the search-engine giant Google. Although the chopsticks were demonstrated at the company’s recent technology innovation conference in Beijing, they are not yet ready for mass production.
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