These smart-chopsticks are able to detect contaminants in your food

Recently, Stephen Colbert lampooned gadgets that track what you drink and other seemingly inane metrics. But the trend may have just found its ideal market. The Chinese search giant Baidu just introduced a pair of “smart chopsticks” designed to alert users to the presence of “gutter oil,” or the illegal use of oil dredged up unsavory places. The utensils are called Baidu Kuaisou, and according to the Wall Street Journal, they can detect “oils containing unsanitary levels of contamination.”.