Rory Carroll is at the Consumer Electronics Show for the Guardian, taking notes and photos about the most talked-about products at the tech jamboree.
Spotted: A smart fork
Judging by buzz, the world's first smart connected fork is one of the hits of CES. It knows how fast you are eating and encourages you to slow down by vibrating and flashing an orange light. The idea being that eating slower enhances digestion and reduces the quantity of food consumed.
"We've been covered by 62 countries in the past 48 hours," said Renee Blodgett of HAPILABS, the French company which designed the fork. "And what's with you British? The BBC have interviewed us five times. We couldn't get rid of them."
The company, founded by Fabrice Boutain (a svelte Frenchman in no apparent need of vibrating cutlery) is based in Hong Kong and Miami. It has made just a handful of prototypes but hopes, with the help of Kickstarter funding, to have the Chinese-made forks on the US market by April. "After that, spoons," beamed Blodgett.
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