When it comes to cooking you need to be prepared for one thing.  You’re going to be measuring a lot.  Any recipe, any serving size, any food activity means you’re going to have to scoop, spread, spoon, and sort a wide variety of ingredients.  A cup of this, a tablespoon of that, a half-cup of whatever… it’s pretty complicated, even if you’re following a recipe.  Plus, there’s always the complication of needing a dozen different scoopers and hoping they are actually accurate.  Fortunately, there’s help on the way.  The Smoon is a self-measuring digital spoon that follows recipes as you scoop out your ingredients.

Feast your eyes (see what I did there?) on this informative video!

Okay, so you can’t exactly buy a smoon right now, but the fact that there’s a working prototype suggests that there may be a future in the smoon after all.  The fact that it can sync up to a recipe as you go through the measurements is very impressive, as is its ease of scooping and leveling.  I really love that design of scoop, though if I were changing it, I’d make it so the smoon would also self-scrape with the push of a button.  If I want a half-cup of peanut butter, the smoon should make that happen as precisely as possible.

Visit the smoon’s website for more videos.