Michael Wolf

Over the past decade, millions of Americans, myself included, have started quantifying our daily activity and biomarkers using wearables such as smartwatches and rings. First, it was activity tracking, then heart rate, and then sleep. More recently, over-the-counter continuous glucose monitors became widely available, giving broad access to real-time insights into the state of our metabolism. What’s the next stop?

When Brava shut down earlier this year, it marked the end of one of the more ambitious experiments in cooking technology of the past decade. For nearly nine years, Travis Rea helped build the company from an ambitious startup with a novel idea—using high-powered light instead of traditional heating elements to cook food—to a respected innovator whose countertop oven developed an unusually passionate following.

If your still waiting to get going on that New Year’s resolution to figure out how to use AI to build an app or some other cool idea, it’s not too late. In fact, a good starting point is to watch the replay of our online Food AI Co-Lab from yesterday, where a friend of the Spoon (and Spoon Podcast Network podcaster), Mike Lee.