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On the first dark of CES 2025 , Kirin Holdings , a Japanese fellowship have it away for its beer and drinkable , show offits raw electronic spoonthat micturate your intellectual nourishment taste saltier . The party says its spoonful uses a weak electric stream to centralise sodium ion speck in your food for thought , adding a warm umami and salt flavor to broken - Na food .
A limited supply of the Electronic Salt Spoon went on sale in Japan in 2024 for just about $ 127 in American dollars , but Kirin hopes to trade the gimmick around the ball in the coming days . The company claims this gimmick can perceptibly increase the “ salt ” of your intellectual nourishment , without adding any extra sodium .
A crowd of people try some soup using Kirin ’s spoon at CES Unveiled in Las Vegas . TechCrunch did not try it ourselves , because there ’s something about a communal tech conference spoonful that just is n’t that appetising .
While the spoon seems too good to be dead on target , there ’s some convincing enquiry behind it that suggests it may be legit . The ware launching of Kirin ’s spoon marked the first commercialization of applied science thatwon the 2023 Ig Nobel prize , a satiric award for unusual scientific research . The researchers behind it first published their thesis in 2011 , but have since made spoonful , fork , and chopsticks that pass electric current into food for thought .
Kirin allege it create the spoon to serve masses wipe out less salinity . This job is particularly relevant in Japan , where the country ’s grownup universe wipe out more than double the World Health Organization ’s recommended intake .
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