Hasta La Gadget!

The bossy utensil that got the mainstream media all worked up at CES will be available for purchase for $99 starting October 18th at the premiere purveyor of all things you didn’t know you needed: Brookstone. HAPIfork, a Bluetooth-enabled fork that vibrates when you shovel food into your mouth at a pace that exceeds pre-programmed intervals, is already shipping to Kickstarter backers. Pre-orders start today, with direct purchases available exclusively from Brookstone online and in-store starting the 18th. If you’re having trouble measuring your mastication, check out the press release after the break.

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We’ve talked about the HAPIfork project during CES 2013, and it seems like it is ready for the next step since its team has started seeking funding through Kickstarter after a rather successful awareness campaign. Hapilabs, the company behind this concept is seeing $100,000 from the public, which represents about 1000 prospect customers for this smart fork. Given that contributions range from $89 (the minimum to receive the product) to $1500, this looks very doable, but this will be the ultimate test which shows if the initial impression can now be converted to real user intent.

If you are not familiar with HAPIfork, it is a fork equipped with a capacitive sensor. It can tell how fast you’re eating since each bite would trigger a contact between your lip skin and the sensor. (more…)

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On a diet? Need to lose a few pounds within the next few weeks? Then you need the HAPIfork. It’s a ‘smart’ fork that comes equipped with a sensor that keeps track of how fast you’re eating and how many times you’ve used it to stuff food into your mouth.

Once it detects that you’re eating way too much or way too fast, it’ll vibrate gently to remind you to stop or at least slow down so you won’t eat more than you should. HAPIfork also takes note of the time you began and finished eating, and how long it takes for you to eat a meal so that you can check out your eating stats later and evaluate it accordingly.

The HAPIfork is currently being demonstrated at CES 2013, where it’s delighting dieters and weight watchers at the show and the world over.

HAPIfork will be launching on Kickstarter this March.

[via Mashable]

You never know when you might need a fork, so during times of need, you’ll be very thankful to have this Credit Card Cutlery in your wallet. We can’t all be carrying utensils in our pockets, so these flat-pack forks definitely seem like a novel idea.

These were designed by Devon Briggs, who probably got tired of having to ask for forks where there were none (or worse, eating using only his bare hands.) So what’s a lad to do? Come up with a way to bring forks wherever, so they can be used whenever you need them.

They may not seem like a such a practical way to eat, but when you’re strapped for a fork, then you’ll realize just how much you need one of these credit card-sized babies. I’m not sure how easy it would be to make a spoon using the same approach though.

[via Yanko Design]