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Our friends to the East have a new mobile services for those trying to keep an eye on their figure. In response to an alarming trend where Osaka official, Satomi Onishi, says “Japanese have been getting fatter, especially men in their 20s and 30s, and there is concern over what they learned about nutrition when they were younger,” the government has rolled out a cell phone diet program. No, it’s not a diet consisting of mobile phones. The service allows the calorically curious to snap a mobile picture of their impending meal and get nutrition information texted back to them. The image of, say a bowl of noodles, is sent to a nutritional professional who analyzes the meal and texts nutritional information (like calorie content) back to the user. Onishi says, “We’re hoping that this program can help us to get a handle on the problem.”
via: yahoo
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
