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by tgvaughan 1516 days ago
> The chopsticks work by using ... a mini-computer worn on the eater’s wristband.

Impressive, most minicomputers would probably break your arm if you tried to wear them on your wrist.

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Never seen a fitness tracker?
> In a 1970 survey, The New York Times suggested a consensus definition of a minicomputer as a machine costing less than US$25,000 (equivalent to $174,000 in 2021), with an input-output device such as a teleprinter and at least four thousand words of memory, that is capable of running programs in a higher level language, such as Fortran or BASIC.

i think your regular off the shelf fitbit could fit this description... maybe you'd have to stretch the definition of input-output device, but otherwise it makes sense