For the tech conscious amongst us who count calories of what they eat, image recognition to count calories is so passe.
 
Researchers at the University of Buffalo, have created an AutoDietary wearable device that deciphers the calorie count of what you are eating depending on the sounds that you are making. Their AutoDietary device listens to the sounds that you make while chewing and swallowing different kinds of food.
 
For example, the sounds that you make while crunching an apple differs from that of a cookie – right? Their AutoDietary device, in the form of a necklace, can detect that and sends the data to an app in your smartphone which then provides recommendations for cutting back or improving on your snacking and dietary needs. It can even tell you to slow down, if you rush through your dinner.
 
The current model isn’t foolproof, yet. The existing implementation can correctly detect the food that you are consuming by 85%. It can’t detect yet whether the food that you are consuming is a ‘junkiefied’ version or a healthy version, a common problem with cereals.
 
Researchers believe they can surmount this obstacle by adding a biomonitor to the device which will monitor blood sugar levels and other meal specific telltale signs.
 
This technology has the latent potential to revolutionize the management of healthcare, including obesity, diabetes and related conditions.
 
 
 

Aficionados of high-end watches perk up and take note. If you are looking to stand out from the crowd, take a look at HYT's H series.

Instead of relying on the usage of time tested spinning hands to tell you the time, which is so passé, HYT’s H series makes use of the novel concept of hydro-mechanical system that fills capillaries with fluids. Although it certainly is niche, it won’t be for much longer though. It now has a competitor from its sister brand Preciflex.

Preciflex has already received $23 million in funding to create a "new type of fluidic jewelery." Fortunately for most of us who aren’t inclined in selling one of their kidneys for a watch, these liquid based watches are going to have a price which is "different," (read more affordable) from the HYT’s H series.  Already, Preciflex has made in-roads with its microfluid technology in the medical and automotive sectors, thus increasing the footprint of this technology.

HYT, as of now, is keeping its cards close to its chest. All it has disclosed about the watches is that within the next 3 years it is likely to team up with a few "strategic players" to get its watches off the ground, so expect them to be on sale within the next three years.

It turns out, Kickstarter has made individuals as powerful as the chairman of a Fortune 500 company: although their individual investment may be puny in comparison, it is in the process of providing a luxurious rarity affordable to the common man.