Gadgetory

the New Year may begin with the best intentions to eat healthier but old habits die hard and a few weeks in you may need some tech to help you stick to your goals a scale is one way to control portions but a new gadget takes that idea a step further for the home chef who doesn't follow recipes ingredient for ingredient the prep pad and countertop app gives you a way to still find out the exact nutritional information of the dish you're preparing to use the prep pad place an empty dish on the scale then enter each ingredient of your meal into the countertop app before adding it to your dish we're kind of first in terms of giving you the visual breakdown of every ingredient you know your completed meal everything that you're that you're preparing in the kitchen when it comes to eating health experts say what's the rush the happy fork reminds you to slow down your dining the electronic utensil times the intervals between your bites and tells you when you're gobbling your meal too quickly by vibrating and sending an alert to your smartphone you'll have to charge up the device every few hours and currently there are no happy spoons so you're out of luck if soup's on the menu but happy fork is dishwasher safe just pull it apart to keep your electronics nice and dry another proven way to trim the fat a food diary the MyFitnessPal app tracks what you eat and your exercise down to the last calorie thanks to a barcode scanning feature and a massive database of workouts and food part of the database is entered by us part of it is entered by our community so it's a lot like Wikipedia where people will contribute foods people can edit foods you know you can think of it as having millions of people who are constantly quality checking our database and because people often eat the same meals the app will soon roll out a feature that remembers foods eaten together if you just tap on the hotdog what you'll see is will show you all the things that you've logged with that hot dog before so you can easily check them off so the mustard the ketchup the relish will all be there for you makes it really simple to log the whole group of foods together with some tech on your side maybe you'll keep that New Year's resolution after all at least april fools in San Francisco I'm suma das Cena for CBS News