Dinner Plate Which Lets You Know How Much Calorie You Are About To Consume

SmartPlate is hardware in a form of a plate which analyzes whatever the food that is put on it.  It is invented by a Philadelphia-based startup Fitly and it is currently being crowd funded in Kickstarter. The goal is to collect a funding of $100,000 before it is released to the market. You can pledge a piece for $149 whereas the retail price will be $229. If everything is going as per plan, it will start shipping in summer 2016.

The device comes with three digital cameras and image recognition technology which is able to identify the object which is placed on top of it. Furthermore, it transmits data to the corresponding apps installed in the Android OS or iOS. The data is transmitted by using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.

The difference of this product with the available apps in the market today such as MyFitnessPal is that this product collects the data automatically and accurately too. For example, when an apple is placed on top of SmartPlate, the details were shown on the apps almost automatically, including the weight and the ingredients inside the apple. It is displayed that the apple weighs 7.16oz, 21 grams of sugar, 106 calories and 28 carbs. Therefore, as a comparison, somebody weighs an apple on a weighing machine separately and it is shown as 7.2 oz.

The SmartPlate is coming with a variety of colors such as purple, fuschia and teal.

Dinner Plate Which Lets You Know How Much Calorie You Are About To Consume

Android L: "Material Design", Project Volta, Improved Battery Life, and More

This year’s Google I/O conference closed yesterday and as always, had shown us myriads of new products, innovations and announcements from the search giant as well as its partners.

One of the biggest announcements that caught many people’s attentions was that of the new Android operating system called the Android L, which was announced on the first day at the conference by Google’s Sundar Pichai.

All-encompassing updates has been made to the operating system with bunches of new features added and lots of changes made. Out of which, The Android L introduced a simplified ‘Material Design’ interface, which is flatter and more colorful.

According to an in-depth review by PhoneArea, “Put in most simple terms — no design element has been spared, and even the software navigation keys have gone through a redesign (now a triangle, circle, and square). What’s more, the new look, apart from being seamless across all Google platforms, has also been simplified down to the basics, and is now flatter, more colorful, and quite a bit more likable.”

Aside from that, the OS also introduced improved search functionality, improved battery life or ‘Project Volta’ and animated actions.

“That last bit is, in a big way, a feeling influenced by the the inclusion of rich animation feedback to actions, which, in plain speak, means that essential operations, like clicking a button, switching a tab, flipping through recents, etc, will all be animated. Thankfully, all of this has been done tastefully from what we’ve seen so far, and is not overwhelming or overly flashy.” wrote PhoneArea.

Preview is available for developers with Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 smart phones.

Android L: "Material Design", Project Volta, Improved Battery Life, and More