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bibigo Just Made Chopsticks With Touchscreen Tips for Scroll-Eaters

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There’s a greasy phone screen somewhere in your immediate past. Maybe it was a dumpling, maybe it was a bowl of noodles, maybe it was something with a suspiciously orange sauce. Either way, you were eating and scrolling at the same time, and the evidence is still on the glass. Nobody’s proud of it, but according to a survey bibigo ran through Angus Reid, 96% of Americans have used their phone while eating, so at least you’re in excellent company.

bibigo, the Korean food brand behind what the internet has collectively decided are its favorite dumplings, decided to design for the habit instead of lecturing about it. ScrollSticks are dual-ended chopsticks with touchscreen tips, one end for picking up food and the other for tapping, swiping, and scrolling on a phone. The premise is simple: two dedicated ends for two different jobs, keeping the oil and sauce where they belong.

Designer: bibigo

The research behind the launch is basically a monument to relatable chaos. Beyond the 96% who’ve scrolled while eating, 66% do it often during at least one meal a day. Nearly three in four people report frustrations: 41% are frustrated by getting their hands or phones dirty, 30% struggle to hold a phone comfortably while eating, and 28% can’t keep their screen clean. ScrollSticks are bibigo’s answer to all of the above, which is either very clever or a sign of the times, possibly both.

The design logic is straightforward. You eat with the food end, then flip the chopsticks and use the touchscreen-compatible tips to tap and scroll without transferring dumpling residue onto the glass. The tips work with capacitive touchscreens, so it’s not just poking the screen with metal but actually registers as a touch. One tool, two dedicated functions, and your screen stays marginally more dignified.

The cleaning situation is also handled better than you’d expect from what sounds like a novelty item. The touchscreen tips unscrew from the chopsticks, so you can dishwasher or sink-wash the metal body just like any other silverware. That modularity is doing serious practical work here. A touchscreen-tipped chopstick that you can’t properly clean would be a different, worse product.

bibigo frames ScrollSticks as part of its “food-tainment” innovations, which is a word that exists now and apparently describes branded objects that blur eating and entertainment culture. The previous entry in that line was the bibigo Dashboard Kitchen. ScrollSticks are sillier and more useful, which is a hard combination to pull off.

The chopsticks are a limited-edition drop, and the window is short. That’s fitting for something that is partly a product and partly a cultural artifact: a small, polished admission that dinner and doomscrolling are now the same meal, and if the phone is staying at the table, at least the screen deserves better than a dumpling-flavored fingerprint in the corner.

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Chopstick-shaped tongs make cooking, serving, and eating a breeze

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Anyone who has cooked food will have come across a situation where they need to pick up a piece to either turn it over to cook the other side or to take it out of the pan or pot. Large portions are no problem for turners and tongs, but more delicate pieces can end up being an exercise in patience and dexterity. Smaller tongs aren’t always the answer because of the standard design of these tools and their wide, often spoon-shaped, heads that don’t afford precision and dexterity of movement. Some situations call for a radical change in that design, which is what these chopsticks-like pair try to offer, taking a page from one of the most precise utensils ever invented.

Designer: Isao Sekikawa

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Some ingredients or pieces of food are so delicate that they need to be handled with a bit more care than what large cooking tools often provide. That’s true whether you’re trying to flip thin strips of meat on a frying pan, taking out cooked flakes of fish, putting in ingredients in a hot pot, or even just creating a complex arrangement of small fruits. Some of these you can’t even do by hand, while others are possible but not ideal for safety and hygiene. These specially designed tongs solve that problem in a rather fun-looking way that makes you feel you’re really in control.

Unlike your typical tongs, these Chopsticks Tongs don’t have large or wide tips, so picking up and holding small, delicate pieces isn’t a chore. And while they may look like chopsticks from one angle, they don’t require as much dexterity any more than normal tongs. They’re still made from a single piece of metal bent in the middle, so you won’t have to worry about juggling sticks and accidentally dropping them into a pot. Unlike conventional chopsticks, the tips are flat and ridged, preventing food from escaping its grasp. The tongs have a slender form and a minimalist aesthetic that not only saves space but even gives it an elegant design that looks stunning whether it’s in your hand or hanging in your kitchen.

Of course, normal chopsticks aren’t made for use in high heat, so these lifestyle tongs use SUS821L1 two-phase stainless steel that is known to be stronger than the SUS304 variant that’s commonly used. More importantly, the steel used for these tongs is made from recycled offcuts and scraps, giving it a more sustainable and environment-friendly characteristic. What’s interesting about these tongs is that their black color doesn’t come from paint or similar coating materials. Instead, it’s the product of a special metal processing that ensures the color won’t scratch or peel over time. That black oxide coating also ensures the safety of the food you’re cooking or the tableware you put in your mouth.

Durable, precise, and elegant, these Chopstick-shaped Tongs give you the perfect tool for managing small and delicate pieces of food. And while the 275mm (10.8in) Chopstick Tongs are great for keeping your hand at a safe distance, the shorter 175mm (6.9in) Lifestyle Tongs are better for smaller and more precise movements. You might even want to use it for actually eating your food without having to worry about how to use chopsticks properly. Whether you’re frying strips of meat, preparing a hotpot, or simply enjoying a healthy salad, these handsome Chopstick Tongs add a whole new flavor to your culinary experience.

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Nendo’s redesigned chopsticks intertwine into each other to create a singular cohesive form

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Chopsticks are a 4000-year-old eating implement that has remained untouched. And, for almost four centuries, the quaint town of Obama in Fukui Prefecture, Japan has manufactured beautiful lacquered chopsticks. The lacquered chopsticks are considered the hardest and the most beautiful of the Japanese lacquer chopsticks, and they’ve been named ‘Wakasa-nuri’. Nendo teamed up with Hashikuru Matsukan – a manufacturer who has continued the Obama legacy. Nendo gave a contemporary and innovative twist to the age-old chopsticks!

Designer: Nendo

Called the Rassen or spiral chopsticks, these unique chopsticks merge fun and functionality to create a product that is quintessentially Japanese, yet quite contemporary. The Rassen chopsticks can be joined together to create one convenient single unit, and they can be detached or separated whenever you need to use them! Rather than having two separate pieces of tableware, you have a single unit in the shape of an elongated cone. When you pull both the chopsticks apart, you notice an interesting twist in their wooden handles.

The entire experience of bringing the chopsticks together and then separating them becomes a fun and amusing experience. It feels like you’re playing with a jigsaw puzzle! Using the chopsticks to eat your meals, brings joy and a certain sense of playfulness to your everyday ordinary meals. Putting them back together is really quite swift and easy too, and it eliminates the fear of losing one of them.

While designing the Rassen chopsticks Nendo had the intention of giving people a small ‘!’ moment. We often find many small ‘!’ moments in our day, and these tend to make our days brighter and richer. Nendo wanted to contribute and add a ‘!’ moment in people’s lives with their lovely chopsticks. These chopsticks are handmade by artisans, and Nendo also utilized a multi-axis CNC miller to build the unusual yet useful utensils.

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