Apple has been granted a patent for technology that has the iPhone hear chewing, prompt you to photograph your food, and could then criticize your food choices.Apple’s newly-granted “Augmented Reality Calorie Counter” patent is split between detection of chewing, and then determination of what is being eaten. The patent doesn’t really explicitly say Apple will complain at you for snacking. But that’s only because patents are concerned with how something is determined, not what is then done with the information.Even so, this is clearly another avenue for Apple’s ever-expanding health services. But in this case the company says it’s needed because of our ever-expanding waistlines — and the perhaps surprising difficulties in counting calories. Read more…
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