The Pandora for food? Lighter wants to help you make good eating decisions
Meet Lighter, the healthful new company that co-founder Alexis Fox calls the "Pandora for food."
It's official: Nation's top scientific consortium declares GMOs safe and healthy
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have officially declared GMOs are safe, good for you, and good for the environment.
No salt, no problem: Electric fork simulates salty flavors with electric currents
Who needs salt when you have electricity? That’s the proposition of the “electric flavoring fork” created by a researcher in Japan.
This automated store in Sweden doesn’t have any human employees — only a smartphone app
This automated store in Viken, Sweden, is entirely unmanned. Patrons must use a smarphone or tablet to enter and purchase goods from it.
Love taking pictures of your food? Then you’ll love the new app Foodie
The LINE Corporation has released a new camera app called "Foodie," dedicated to taking delicious photos of food.
China is building a controversial animal cloning facility to satisfy rising meat demands
Sometime in 2016, the world's largest animal cloning facility will open in China and intends to provide roughly 5 percent of the meat eaten in the country.
‘Artificial nose’ sensors can sniff gases to identify ripe foods before they go bad
Tiny artificial nose sensors can sniff out gases to tell when food is ripe or going bad. They could put an end to global food waste by detecting ethylene.
Got allergies? On a diet? Ipiit scans food barcodes to tell you what products to avoid
The ipiit app learns your dietary needs to become a food ambassador. Anytime you scan a barcode, it makes suggestions based on your food preferences.
This app tracks overeating habits and may be the key to weight loss
myCircadianclock is a new app that tracks when and what you eat to help you lose weight.
New hires suggest Amazon is getting serious about meal delivery
Before long, there might not be very much that Amazon doesn't deliver — the retail giant is expanding its meal delivery service to more cities.
Meal-replacement Soylent shakes now come bottled and pre-mixed
Soylent 2.0 provides all the vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates, and protein that your body needs, pre-mixed and ready to drink in a 16-ounce bottle
This is the world’s first 3D printed smart oven, and it’s pretty cool
The 3D printed oven Pyra is a self-proclaimed "innovative new take on the modern convection oven"
John Oliver would probably approve of this 3D-printed milk cap that detects spoilage
UC Berkeley researchers have made a 3D-printed cap that detects when milk has gone bad, rendering the old sniff test obsolete.
OSU biologists have successfully cultivated a new kind of seaweed that tastes like bacon
Researchers from Oregon State University just patented a special type of seaweed that possesses one seriously amazing quality; it tastes just like bacon.
Handpick helps you pick recipes from Instagram and match them to your ingredients
Handpick has added new functions to their Android and iPhone apps that dig up the recipes missing from those drool-worthy Instagram food photos.
SmartPlate uses cameras and sensors to determine your dinner’s nutritional value
SmartPlate uses cameras and sensors to tell you the calorie count of your meal, even that homemade lasagna in the fridge.
Doughnut compute: A cookbook by Watson, IBM’s AI machine
On April 8, it was reported that IBM had teamed up with the Institute of Culinary Education to create the first-ever cookbook co-created by algorithms.
This pocket-sized sensor could help detect gluten in your food
San Francisco-based startup 6SensorLabs is currently in the process of developing a handheld food testing device that can detect the presence of gluten
Bio-reactive expiration labels could spell the end of spoiled food
Bump Mark, winner of the UK regional James Dyson Award, is a clever new expiration label that decays at the same rate as the food inside the package
Finally, a dinner plate that cleans itself
Dishwashers - with all their nozzles and jets and grease-fighting detergents - may very well be obsolete in the future if these hydrophobic dishes catch on
