Cutleware | Marc Pous, Javier García, Spain
from IDAT bcn 3 years ago
Intelligent cuttlery for a healthy diet.
Nowadays many countries are investing in the development of e-health applications and services that help governments to reduce their expense in healthcare systems. Most developed countries are facing two major problems with the health of their citizens, the aging of population and health problems due to a bad nutrition (excess of an unbalanced diet). People have enough food, but they do not know how to eat in a healthier way.
Nevertheless many of the technologies needed to help people eat in a better way exists, while assuring the the information gathered for each person will be supervised by a health system and in a ultimate instance by a medical professional if necessary.
The introduction of intelligent technologies into society will contribute to improve our daily life. The design of new products and services in the Internet of Things should have the purpose of creating objects for better living. Everyday objects such as forks, knives, spoons, plates, and tablecloths are not seen as intelligent objects at all, but these objects are being used everyday once or twice (at least) for feeding us. For these reasons, the connection of these everyday objects to Internet would improve our diet and our health.
Imagine for a moment that a fork could analyze how much carbohydrates are you eating in every bite, or the dishwater could calculate the weight of the soup and how fast are you eating. Envision a knife which could extract if theres is any trace of food that you are now allowed to eat because of your celiac diet, or a spoon which calculates the temperature of the ice-cream and propose you to wait a couple of minutes to have a better digestion.
All of these objects connected wirelessly with your mobile device (phone, ipad or tv set), using existent communication technologies such as bluetooth, wi-fi or rfif, in order to monitor your diet, suggest what to eat with the goal of improving our daily diet and life.
