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Weight Loss Sunglasses Make Your Food Look Gross so You Won't
Posted by Adam Frucci at 7:10 AM on March 25, 2008
If diets have just never worked for you due to your lack of self-control and your love of all things buttery, maybe it's time for some stupider methods of weight loss. Enter the Weight Loss Sunglasses. Yep, these guys are tinted blue, the "least appetizing colour of the spectrum," sure to make that ice cream sundae sitting in front of you look downright disgusting. For only US$18.75, I don't know how you can say no. [Product Page via Book of Joe]
No one likes learning their weight from a set of scales, so Alice Wang's new concept devices take inspiration from Asimov's First Law of Robotics to protect you from the cruel truth. Her three scales are designed to not "harm a human being " (i.e. you) by either requiring another person to read them or just flat-out lying to you. Dieting would never feel the same again.
Diet Floor is a "smart" talking ceramic floor that will talk to you whenever you spend too much time on top of it at the wrong times. In other words: you go to the kitchen in between meals, stop in front of the the refrigerator to see what you can nib on and it will shout something like "Watch out for those extra pounds!" or "Beware of the cold pizza monster!" or something like that. And it gets even better when you install them in an office environment.
These Wonder Sauna (Long) Hot Pants are the kind of product you find in the back of your grandparents closet that make you rethink everything you thought you knew about them. Namely, that they aren't retarded enough to buy a product called Wonder Sauna (Long) Hot Pants in the first place. Sucks for you, dude. The apple doesn't fall far from the idiotic grandparents. [
Really, this is just a standard body fat meter with a Hello Kitty sticker slapped on the front of it. But it also comes with a numeric health meter and a cooking scale, so you know what'll expand your waistline before shove it in your face.
At $50, it's not as cheap as the (free?) 
There are a few things weird about this phone. First, if we were to design a cellphone to smell foods and keep track of your diet, we probably wouldn't design it like an avocado. Second, on the off chance that we were to design it like an avocado, we probably wouldn't make it an avocado with a bite taken out of it. But that's just us.
The idea itself—keeping track of what types of foods you've eaten by its chemical signature and telling you what foods you're lacking—is pretty sound. Why not just integrate it into a regular-looking phone? 
