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We've seen phones with lots of crazy features, but in my opinion BenQ's fat-measuring phone beats them all. The alleged phone keeps track of your pudge by shooting out a micro-current that travels through your body.
When you touch two separate electrodes on the phone, a special chip will measure the electrical signal and before you know it, you'll be dropping those Twinkies in no time flat. I think the idea is pretty far-fetched—the last thing anyone wants is a phone telling them when they've had one too many Doritos.
Body Fat Measuring Phone from BenQ [Unwired View]
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I have a bathroom scale that does a similar thing, except that if your BMI is over 25% then it flashes "OBESE" along with your weight. This slight humiliation is actually a decent motivator to get some exercise.
Maybe the phone could shout out a motivational phrase everytime you pick it up with your pudgy little hands.
motivational phrases:
Get your fat @$$ outside and walk.
or it will just dial 2456-OBESE or something like that..
Btw the accuracy of fat meeters lowers when the areas transfering the electric current is smaller, proved by the leading manufacturers OMRON in Japan.
I can see a new Healthy Promotion...for every pound you loose you get 5 extra anytime minutes.
I can't believe that this phone comes out just when I post to my blog my next book, "mypetfat's - The Cell Phone Diet". I went to BenQ's site I but couldn't find a posting about the phone. Any chance you guys could email me a link.
Thanks,
Jay
creator of mypetfat
"helping fight the global battle of the bulge 1LB at a time"
level of accuracy for this technology is something in the range of +/- 30% which makes it entirely useless IMO
banmojo:
ya for usd1 products, stop using them, it´s utterly stupid, use the pro one´s instead that work.
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