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‘Smart’ chopsticks detect bad oil
Chinese software giant Baidu has unveiled a pair of chopsticks with sensors that can determine the quality of cooking oil. A video for the chopsticks shows the eating utensil being dipped into three different oils—olive oil, cooking oil, and “gutter” oil (black market oil recycled from waste or discarded oil).

An accompanying app provides the results—positive (good) for the olive and cooking oil and negative (bad) for the gutte…