07-11-2017 13:00 via theverge.com

Now there’s a smart fork that cancels out noodle slurps

Do you enjoy your noodles or ramen so much you slurp them loudly? Do strangers give you death stares while friends just pretend they don't know you? Apparently, enough people feel your pain that a company called Nissin created the battery-powered Otohiko fork that claims to detect those huge slurps and then masks the racket using noise cancellation technology.
The company claims to have collected "enormous" amounts of the slurps in order to data mine the "character of the sound.” In practi
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