You grab a stack of chocolate chip cookies on your way out of the office potluck party.  You also grab a quick photo of your snack with your iPhone.

If you were using PhotoCalorie, the free iPhone application could generate some feedback, letting you know how each cookie had roughly 100 calories – so your snack ran you around 400 calories in total.  (Bummer! I guess it might be a salad for dinner.) PhotoCalorie would also log your snack in a food journal, helping you track your meals day by day.

I’m sold! When they get the iPhone on Verizon, guess what the first app I download will be.  And as a new Boston girl, the project is particularly close to my heart, as it was developed by a group of researchers from MIT, Boston University and Harvard. Boston is so smart.

Learn more about PhotoCalorie in this Boston Globe article, also, follow them on Twitter @PhotoCalorie.