SmartMeasure Kitchen Measuring Cup Takes Some Work Out of Baking

While cooking is simply a matter of throwing in pinches and handfuls of your favorite ingredients until your concoction tastes palatable, baking requires tediously-precise measurements. Since countertops are at hand level and not eye level, an ordinary measuring cup requires that you wait for your liquid to stop sloshing around, bend down, read the measurement, fill a bit more, lean back on your heels as far as you can and view the cup down your nose, dump a bit out, repeat, and so on. Ryan Eder & Chris Daniels of Priority Designs provide a refreshing simplification in the SmartMeasure Kitchen Measuring Cup: a backlit LCD on the handle that provides you with a readout of the measurement as you stand and continue to whip your other ingredients. The SmartMeasure can even convert units. Brilliant. This is usually the sad part of the post where you turn away thinking ‘Awww shucks, I wish they’d actually make some of these designs’ ; however, according to Yanko, this one has been picked up by Taylor Kitchenware and should be hitting stores in the near future. [via Yanko]