Category: Cutlery in the news

Spün Utensils – Calorie Counting Cutlery for your Phone

Another interesting Kickstarter from the company Spün who has created smart cutlery used with a phone app which will measure the weight and type of food you are eating to provide instantaneous information for healthy eating. The data is stored on your phone where you can match your calorie and nutritional intake against your daily goals.

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You must first take a photo of the food you are about to eat via the phone app and from there the technology analyzes what you are eating, and how much, with each mouthful you take. The cutlery looks like an everyday spoon or fork, there are interchangeable stainless steel heads, and it will warn you when you have met your target for a meal. It also vibrates when it senses you are eating too quickly.

While eating you can watch the Spün app to see real-time stats on your current meal and for the day, including how many calories you’ve had, how fast you are eating, and more. Over time, Spün will give you food recommendations.

Visit their site here @ Spün

 

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Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table by Ellen Wayland-Smith – Sex & Cutlery

Sex and CutleryWe have covered a lot of products by Oneida on this site. And we’ve always known there is a interesting backstory to one of the oldest and most famous flatware companies.

At the Guardian there is a great book review of Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table by Ellen Wayland-Smith. Here’s a snippet:

“Ellen Wayland-Smith is a descendant of members of the Oneida community, and in her book she details the travails of her ancestors. In the 1840s, Noyes and his followers set up the Oneida Reserve, buying land that had been confiscated from Native Americans, determined to be able to practise their communistic Christianity (in which claiming a single person as one’s own was seen as antithetical to the group’s wellbeing). By the 1940s, Oneida had become among the most prestigious brands of silverware and cutlery, and its owners were mortified that the public might find out about the company’s free love beginnings.”

Check out the book review at the Guardian or even better you can buy the book at the link below.

Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table

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Bottega Veneta Sterling Silver Flatware – You can’t buy this.

Bottega Veneta Sterling Silver FlatwareBack in April of 2014 the fashion company Bottega Veneta offered a  preview of its latest home collection. And featured in that collection was the Bottega Veneta Sterling Silver Flatware which is pictured above.

The Italian studio unveiled its tableware line, including its sterling silver cutlery featuring the brand’s geometric ‘intrecciato’ engraving and the new ‘brunito’ finish. And now when I look for anyone selling it, it’s gone. You can’t buy this. It’s wonderful and I love the ‘brunito’ finish (which means burnished) but it’s gone. Where did it go? Did they every release it? The Bottegaveneta.com website features not a single spoon, fork or knife.

I did find an amazing collection of cutlery available at Neiman Marcus, so I got that going for me. Still would like to see how much the Bottega Veneta Sterling Silver Flatware cost though.

Check out an amazing cutlery selection at Neiman Marcus

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Rich Forks – Stolen Cutlery from the Rich and Famous

Prince Harry Used Fork“The Rich Forks” is an interesting art project by Australian artist Van Thanh Rudd. For fifteen years he has been stealing cutlery from the rich and famous.  To quote from his website:

“Endless high quality food and drink, silver service and luxury hotel rooms adorn the daily routines of the idle rich these days more than ever. It’s no surprise that this occurs when only 62 people own as much wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion people on this planet. Luxury items including 5/6 star hotel food and wine is always at the finger tips of the extremely wealthy. And they don’t lift a finger when it comes to washing the silverware, setting the tables or cooking the exorbitantly priced food.”

So he successfully stole flatware from rich people to make a pretty serious point. He had access I think because he is the nephew of the former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd. And he stole from a interesting list of people like Prince Harry, Hillary Clinton, Rupert Murdoch and others.

Visit VTR’s website to see more

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