Meet Your New Personal Trainer: Your Cellphone
A prototype Wellness mobile phone from Japan’s NTT DoCoMo Inc. targets users with busy lives who want a hassle-free way of keeping track of their health.
Like Nike Inc.’s +Nike technology, the handset also keeps track of jogs, letting users set targets and keep track of time, distance and calories burned—while listening to music through headphones. Hold the phone with outstretched arms, and it turns into a mini body-fat calculator. A sensor at the top of the phone takes your pulse from your fingertip. The Wellness phone, developed by NTT DoCoMo and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., also asks questions to assess stress levels—and offers advice. NTT DoCoMo is still testing some of the phone’s other technology, including a function to keep track of meals and calculate calorific intake, as well as a networking capacity to let users share data. [Via]
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