Friday, November 18, 2011

French Digital Kitchen is a Recipe for Success

BY DAVID DUNCAN


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111024084239.htm

Students using the French Digitial Kitchen at Newcastle University. 
(Credit: Image courtesy of Newcastle University)

5 comments:

Nate said...

Wow! That was amazing! It must cost a lot though. Do you insert the censors in your own ingredients, or does the kit come with ingredients with the censors in them? I wonder if the censors usually work. I also can't figure out how it can tell if you put the right amount of an ingredient in. If it can and works, that would be really cool! I like how it can help yo learn a language through cooking. That is a great idea.I also wonder how many recipes it has. It sounds really cool.

Anthony the Chef said...

Cool! I wish I had that! They should start making it for Latin, though. Like Nate said, I wonder if you put the censors in your own silverware, or does it come with the utensils. It would be amazing to try to test it out and see how it works! I wonder how precise it would be, like if it knew exactly how much ingredient you put in. It would be a fun way to learn a language, and you get to eat your own food afterwards. All in all this seems like an amazing breakthrough and now I really want to test it out.

Caroline said...

This is so cool, it is amazing what people can do with technology! That looks like a great way to learn a language, it seems effective and fun. I wonder if it works very well. Often things like that will only work half of the time. It is hard to get things like that to work. I wonder if it will get more well known. A lot of things like this most people don't find out about even though they seem so cool if you find out about them. It would be pretty cool to test it out and see how it works and see how well it works. Like Nate said it must cost a lot so it is probably very unusual.

David said...

The French Digital Kitchen is an interesting way to learn a new language. The main idea is that it’s easier to learn a new language if you’re doing a real-life activity at the same time, like cooking. You are learning about a country’s language at the same time that you are learning about a country’s food. The kitchen uses motion sensor-technology. Digital sensors are built into the utensils, ingredient containers, and other kitchen equipment that are hooked up to a computer. The computer lets you know if you are following the instructions correctly or making mistakes. You can also ask the computer for help. This technology was originally designed to help people with dementia. I think it could be used by people with other disabilities too.

Luca said...

This is an amazing new invention, but how will it measure how much let's say, flour you pour in. flour is not a solid ingredient, it is comprised of many smaller particles. How would the computer measure it then?