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A new easy-to-follow diet plan: just replace your silverware with the new “brambles and thorns” style!

Sep 30, 2024

Design, Diet & Food, Health, UI / UX

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The Issue: Modern food has been optimized for deliciousness and ease-of-eating. Unfortunately, this makes it easy to quickly devour an entire plate of food. This is bad news for dieting and portion control. Proposal: Dieting plans typically focus on the type and quantity of food being eaten. Strangely, these plans rarely look at the utensils…
Yet another incredible technological development in dining utensils, the “clockwork wind-up fork” is a practical diet aid and not just a bizarre steampunk-themed hallucination!

Apr 13, 2020

Diet & Food, Household, UI / UX

clockwork, Diet & Food, fad diet, fork, hallucination, kitchen, spoon, steampunk, wind-up fork, wind-up key, wind-up spoon

Background: Diet fads come and go, but most have at least one element in common: the requirement that individuals be deliberate about what they eat (rather than ravenously consuming everything like a starved beast). The issue: Unfortunately, it’s difficult to have self-control when food is delicious and plentiful. Thus, most people eat larger portions of…