I never believed one day I would pick up my pen, or my computer to write an article like this. But here we are in 2014, and the world is changing faster than we all imagined. Some say it is for the better, some say it is for the worse. Whatever your opinion you have to agree with me that chopsticks that can actually save your life by testing your food is definitely new.

I previously wrote about some unusual things that have been given the smart prefix (click here to read). A Chinese company (obviously) Baidu have designed what is now known as smart chopsticks. These chopsticks check the food for anything toxic when it touches it. As the world is trying to save money, restaurants reuse cooking oils and add cheap, badly made or sometimes artificial food condiments to food to make it as cheap and as delicious as possible. This has led to seeing more dangerous and toxic ingredients in our eat out food. These chopsticks will also check for things like the salinity and acidity. It can do this because it has indicators on it that will tell you if the food is bad (red) or good enough to eat (blue). It can also connect to your smart mobile phone and give you a detailed information about the results of the test.

Conclusion: This is a very using and lifesaving tool that can gain ground if more companies get hold of the technology and research into it. It is said in the future there will be more devices that will be able to instantly test food for calories and even more. I for one am looking forward to the common use of these devices, as I have been sick from eating out a too many times.

Everywhere you look now you see a smart phone. The chances are you are using one to read this post right now. You must have wondered what it means for lifeless devices to be smart. Well when devices take on the smart prefix, it means they are networked (mostly to the internet).

As humans we are insatiable, we want more all the time. Hence, we keep thinking of new ways to make our everyday lives easier. With years or hard work, research and experiments of thousands of people, we came up with the computer and then networked it which made it smarter because they shared even more information. Since then, computers have been made smaller and smaller and now they can even fit on a bracelet like the smart watches (Click to read).

Again being humans we are still experimenting and advancing and we have made more things smarter.  I have put together a list of uncommon things that will soon be “smarter”!

Smart Clothes: Many companies have been working on these. There are numerous uses for them. Some shirts now store charge while you walk from your motions and then in turn charges your phone. Some are even being designed to monitor your body and share information with your devices.

Smart Shoes: Yes, Adidas made a running shoe that constantly adapts its shock-absorbing characteristics to customize its value to the individual runner, depending on running style, pace, body weight, and running surface. Apple also is said to have patented a shoe that measures how much you walked or ran and other information. These will be able to connect to your devices and give you real time information in the future!

Smart Kitchen Appliances: Many devices are being connected now to make cooking more interesting and easier! You got smart cookers, smart microwaves, smart fridges and even smart washing machines. Yes, you read that right!

All these devices we never thought will get smarter but today more research is being put in and companies vying to be the first. This is really getting us ready for the “Internet Of Things” (Click to read). This really makes you wonder what next will be getting “smarter”. Spoons? You might not be far from the truth!