cutting scale

This one's for all you foodies out there... this design concept by Jess Griffin and Jim Termeer is a cutting board with an embedded scale in a circular area on its right half, telling you the exact weight of those ingredients you're about to place into your recipe or on your plate. The 10"x15" cutting board is designed to use electronic ink to display weight, with embedded sensor grids underneath the surface to determine the downward force of objects placed on it.

You're gonna havta wait a bit till you can buy it though... the technology to build the thing is still between one and five years away. The electronic ink display technology will be possible between one and five years from now, the low-current photovoltaics specified as its power source will be practical in one to three years, and the embedded sensor grids are also one to three years away.

Hmmm... I'd cop me one of those, but I hope when they do manufacture it, they make the cutting area a bit larger because as it stands, it looks a bit too small for any serious dicin'...