From France comes DietSensor, a sensor that uses Bluetooth technology and, when brought close to food and drinks, analyzes their nutritional values.
Eating disorders, metabolic problems, intolerances, and diabetes now have a new tool to help manage them.
Born from an idea by Remy and Astrid Bonnasse, a husband and wife who share not only their faith, but also a passion for technology!
As often happens, the idea arose from a direct need of the creators of this powerful tool; unfortunately, the couple's nine-year-old daughter – both startup founders – suffers from type 1 diabetes, which requires careful attention to carbohydrate intake and blood insulin levels.
The ingenuity is there, the motivation too; all that was needed was Kickstarter, which, thanks to the 2 million dollars requested (and surpassed), enabled the creation of SCiO, the Bluetooth sensor that, connected to a smartphone, detects the molecular composition of objects held at close range using infrared spectrometry.
SCiO was a success and a collaboration began with Consumer Physics, an Israeli company that decided to bet on the technology by creating a product specifically for foodtech: DietSensor, capable of pairing with both iOS and Android apps.
The goal is now not only fighting diabetes, but obesity as well.
Calorie and composition detection, a device weighing just 35 grams, tiny yet capable of detecting food at a distance of 0.5 cm in 1.5 seconds.
The cost? $249 paired with a free app but with a monthly subscription of $10. Everything will be available on the market in the USA and Canada by mid-2016, with the ambitious plan of making it available worldwide by the end of the year! Would you use it?
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