Gadget: The TellSpec Device- What's In Your Food?

The TellSpec is smaller than your phone, but this device could keep you healthy. TellSpec is a spectrometer that can parse the ingredients of whatever you point it at and beam this information to an accompanying smartphone app.

TellSpec  is a light, portable, convenient, and fast, wireless device that connects with your smart phone to tell you the allergens, chemicals, nutrients, calories, and ingredients in any food. Just aim it at the food and press the button until it beeps. You can scan directly or through plastic or glass. It is an inexpensive, simple, and easy to use way to learn what's in your food.

TellSpec is also very useful for people with allergies to things like soy or nuts — they can double-check that there's no allergens in their food. It's also a helpful tool for diabetics, since TellSpec can tell you calories per gram and outline how much fat, sodium and sugar are in a particular item you scan. Down the road,
TellSpec will contain a camera so the device knows the volume of what you're eating, too, and it can accurately indicate that you consumed 67 grams of sugar and 16 grams of fat in a given food. That data is powerful for people who need to be cognizant of what they're putting in their bodies.

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