A whole new way of forking

So you're tracking your heartrate with a chest-strap monitor, you're logging your energy intake with an online food diary, you wear a pedometer to work... what more is there for the metric-loving dieter? Well, there's a bit of buzz building about a fork that will track your mouthfuls, perhaps acting as a pedometer for your meals. It's an interesting idea. Because it tracks the rate you take forkfuls, and can vibrate if you go too fast, the Hapifork provides excellent feedback to fast eaters, and I think it has a real chance of improving thier habits. For those of us who eat mindlessly or just eat stuff we shouldn't, the fork has yet to prove that it's worth $99. When it comes to weightloss, persuading people to buy more stuff has never been hard. When this product goes on the market later in 2013 I look forward to hearing if it really makes a difference, or if it's just another gadget.