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"he takes a picture of his plate with his mobile phone, which then logs the calories" Is this real? Am I missing something? I can't imagine that there exists s
by spiralganglion 15y ago
"he takes a picture of his plate with his mobile phone, which then logs the calories"
Is this real? Am I missing something? I can't imagine that there exists some sort of app to automatically identify the caloric contents of food simply from a photo. But then, what sort of tool could he be using for this purpose? Is this just journalistic liberty being taken with the idea of keeping a food photo journal and manually-updated log of dietary data?
- smokinn 15y agoIt's called Meal Snap. I've never used it myself but mashable seems to think it works well. http://mashable.com/2011/04/06/meal-snap/ http://mashable.com/2011/04/06/meal-snap/
- harscoat 15y agoMealSnap uses MechanicalTurk to do the job http://dashdingo.org/post/4391031302/how-mealsnap-works http://dashdingo.org/post/4391031302/how-mealsnap-works
- alabut 15y agoI heard that's because MealSnap is a ripoff of another app that uses AI and applied to YC for this session, but didn't get in because a cofounder bailed. I wish I could remember the app's name - the main dude is still going and a super sharp German math whiz.
- taro 15y agoThe app is called Photato, it's not out yet but we have a new team and are building something that is accurate enough to be of use to the Quantified self community. If anyone here is interested in testing Photato, drop me a line at taro.franke (at) gmail (dot) com