Does your child swallow his or her food whole? Do you have to be careful that utensils don’t get  in the way when your child is seated and eating at the dining room table?

If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then you will benefit from the Kami Kami (means chew in Japanese) Bite Sensor Counter for kids.

Japanese gadgetry is running amuck (or at least some of the companies behind the gadgets are), and the Kami Kami Bite Counter, from Nitto Kagaku, doesn’t disappoint.

This gadget attempts to make sure children fit into society properly, exhibiting good eating etiquette and manners at all times, but the question is: did it go too far?

How can a child avoid becoming neurotic if forced to don this headgear every time he or she sits down to eat? It’s enough to ruin anyone’s appetite.

Eating slowly and taking smaller bites are good things to teach a child as so many of are in a hurry when we eat and don’t really enjoy our meals. Chewing one’s food the right number of times, however, can be a senselessly exhausting task to keep track of as one goes through life.

This gadget throws off forever the old adage about “biting off more than you can chew.” Perhaps it’s good training for counting raindrops and snowflakes so that calculations for blizzards and floods can be accurately noted?

What do YOU think about this?

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By MDeeDubroff on 25-09-2009