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Published 17:30 17 Apr 2013 BST
Updated 07:33 18 Dec 2014 GMT
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If you’re the kind of person who inhales their food in one breath, furiously shoving it into your mouth until your plate is empty, you will probably be looking to invest in this fork.
Yes, it’s a fork, but it’s so much more than a fork.
This fork looks and feels a bit like an electric toothbrush and is designed to start vibrating in your mouth if you’re eating too fast.
And that’s not all…
The fork also uploads its information about your eating habits to an app via Bluetooth or to your laptop via USB, giving you a handy graph of the number of bites you took over time during each meal.

The fork and the graph presented on your phone or laptop.
Is it necessary? Not wholly, but it is important to remember that slow eating is smart eating.
An increasing number of studies report that the slower and the more mindfully you eat, the better for your digestive health, your weight and your metabolism.
According to Mashable.com, the HAPIfork won an innovation award at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year and it’s available to order online at Kickstarter.com.
Mashable tried the fork out and discovered that the default time between bites is 10 seconds. Anything less than a 10 second break in between your bites and you’re alerted by a vibration.

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