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Google purchases Smart Spoon

Graham Templeton – Geek: “Google’s new spoon is technically called a “tremor-canceling” invention, which means that it reads incoming movement and uses onboard motors to offset that movement and keep the bowl of the spoon as stationary as possible. It has to do more than just mechanical shock-absorbing, as it must dynamically undo the movement caused by random nerve firing, while also identifying and not trying to offset the user’s attempts to move the spoon toward the mouth. I can only imagine the frustration a person must feel when having such trouble merely eating cereal, and conceptually simple innovations like this are a great use of Google’s seemingly unlimited acquisitions budget.”

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