Berlin: Food checker
Today’s Wall Street Journal brings a story of a nice gadget from Japan: the calorie counter for your cellphone. The gizmo comes from the giant Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. “The company and two other Japanese firms said this week that they will together launch what they say is the world’s first Internet-based mobile phone application designed to help users maintain good eating and exercise habits by analyzing the photos of the food they eat.
All you have to do is take a picture of every meal with your mobile phone, before taking the first bite. Then you access the Web-based application, tentatively called “Health Enhancement Assist Service”, and drop off the picture you just took — just like when you post your photos on Facebook.”
Comes in handy when you don’t want to get fat and live healthy, but what if you make a picture of your delicious meal and it turns out to be extremely fat? I don’t think people will pay it and go for a salad instead… Japanese inventions…
