From General Tso’s on the go to Colonel Sanders at your office desk, forward-thinking designers are devising novel ideas to ensure that you’ll never miss a bite. Roll n Roll is an unfortunately named but nonetheless stylish set of portable chopsticks. Winning a bronze medal in the 2007 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), the set of hollow chopsticks can be rolled open and then rolled up to make an attractive metal cuff-like bracelet. Din-Ink cutlery caps transform everyday ballpoint pens into implements of consumption. The three-piece set, a first-prize winner in Design Boom’s Dining in 2015 competition, includes a fork-, knife- and spoon-cap made out of biodegradable materials for environmentally conscious desktop dining. While neither of these designs appear to...
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There are only so many ways you can eat food. Ancient China gave us chopsticks (which, everyone knows, are also great for catching flies), and sometime before 1000 A.D. the Middle East gave us the fork, which was apparently met with resistance in 12th century Europe ("God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks—his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to Him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them when eating.") Since then there's been little innovation. And when you look at something like this contraption, you see why. Fun to look at as a novelty but impossible to eat with, I'm sure. $25 for six, from Charles & Marie. (See also: Chindogu)...
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