Smart Plate

Amalthea8284

Has anyone heard about this?

http://www.getsmartplate.com/

It is a plate that can "automatically identify, weigh, and analyze your food intake".

It looks like it might not be available yet, you can pre-order on their website. Has anyone used this? What do you all think about this?

Please discuss.

seska422

It's $149 "retail" and $99 after the rebate.

It uses cameras to identify food from a picture database (which doesn't tell things like how much butter it has) and has weight sensors. Yet, somehow, is dishwasher safe.

I'm skeptical. It sounds like it's just cheaper, easier, and more accurate to use a $20 food scale and the freely available nutritional information for foods from their packages or the internet.

Amalthea8284

Wow! I didn't know the price! And you have to take a picture? I won't be getting it!

seska422

From the FAQ:

SmartPlate is equipped with 3 mini-cameras (e.g. like the ones currently used in smartphones) and uses advanced object recognition to identify everything sitting on its surface. It also comes with super accurate weight sensors which enable it to weigh up to three pounds of food at once. It then combines both the image and the weight, and sends this information to the USDA's database of over 8,000 household foods (plus another database where we host over 300,000 sku's and over 100,000 restaurant meals) for analysis. It does all this in less than a few seconds.

kwtilbury

I'm sorry, but if you haul that thing into a restaurant, you've got bigger issues than portion control.