The future is now!
First we had spoons that could merely scoop. Then came spoons that were also forks. Then spoons that doubled as straws. And now? Our spoons can take pictures!
I doubt that the first neanderthal who decided to use a Tyrannosaurus femur to dish out a bowl of primordial soup to his kids ever thought his invention would come this far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg_K5j7_Bao
When Cinnamon Toast Crunch announced last week (video credit goes to them) that they would be sending out their snapping and scooping innovations to cereal eaters everywhere—and all for free, too (not including shipping and handling)—via the Selfie Spoon website, the web exploded, with every Buzzfeed writer in the world trying to think of crappy gifs and lists they could make out of it.
As part of our commitment to hard-hitting cereal journalism, we here at Cerealously made sure were amongst the first to send out an order. And as of today, it’s finally arrived! Even for someone as un-photogenic as me, I had to make an exception for this. Let’s take a look.
This utensil parody of the infamous Selfie Stick has a happy purple handle and shines like reflective chrome. I certainly hope that if aliens ever visit the ruins of human civilization, they’ll find one of these. Gotta make a good first impression with martians, of course.
The Selfie Spoon extends to an impressive 30 inches in length, so if you ever need it to double as a shower curtain rod or burglar-foiling bludgeon, Cinnamon Toast Crunch has your back there, too (quite literally, actually: this thing would make a great backscratcher).
By using the nifty bluetooth remote included with the spoon, you can activate your phone’s camera from far away. While it’s super convenient for selfies, I’m thinking of many other uses for this remote, too. I mean, now I can put my phone inside my pantry and catch any cereal-thieving roommates redhanded (and I mean this quite literally again: I can see the Franken Berry crumbs on your hands, Jeff!)
But of course, the main draw here is that every cereal experience you have no longer needs to be isolated. Now the world can know when you’re gulping down some French Toast Crunch end milk for breakfast, and can retweet you when you’re (for some reason) eating an entire box of Lucky Charms at 2:09am.
The camera rotation can be adjusted and tightened, and the spoon head itself is bendy, too, for maximum photo angle manipulation. I found the Selfie Spoon to be easy to use, and the delighted (and more than slightly confused) faces of my Snapchat friends alone was worth the $7 I paid for shipping.
So I invite all selfie artists to take their game to the next level. Visit selfiespoon.com to get yours (if they haven’t sold out for the day, yet!). Send ’em to us at @cerealouslynet on Twitter, too so we can share.
But for now I ask: what’s next in the evolution of spoons? A cereal box with a spoon already attached? A spoon with a fully programmable coffee maker built into the handle? A new self-feeding spoon from Google? The sky’s the limit!
Speaking of the sky, maybe NASA could put a spoon on the moon?