One rarely realizes that one’s kitchen is running short of something until they are busy cooking — and then, inevitably, the pencil for the shopping list is fond to be missing. Luckily, there’s a gadget that will let you dictate it.

All one needs to do is tap a button on the SmartShopper, state their needs to its built-in microphone, and speech-recognition software turns them into text. SmartShopper recognizes 2,500 item names and common errands (”dry cleaners,” say, or “napkins”), and lets you add items of your own. It also displays each new entry so you can correct it. When you’re going out to shop, it prints out the list, alphabetized, with errands followed by your list of things to get.

SmartShopper costs $149.95 and comes with three rolls of thermal paper.

It can be set on a counter, hung on the wall or one can simply, magnetically attach it to a refrigerator - wherever one is most likely to be when one realize something’s running low.