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Design
Tough Times Belt Puncher: Try the Recession Diet
2:00AM Sean Fallon | Taken literally, the idiom “tighten you belt” means it’s time to cut back on your strict bacon diet in lean economic times. A recession diet calls for sacrifice—and this belt puncher can help. More »
Gadgets
Weight Loss Sunglasses Make Your Food Look Gross so You Won’t
7:10AM Adam Frucci | 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] More »
Design
Asimov’s Law Weighing Machines: Scales That Lie
1:51AM Gizmodo US Edition | 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.
Gadgets
Talking Floor Helps Your Diet, Calls You Lazy Fatso
3:45AM Jesus Diaz | 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. More »
Gadgets
Wonder Sauna Hot Pants Are the Most Shameful Products Ever
1:58AM Adam Frucci | 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. [Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
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Weight Loss Robot Will Shame You Into Eating Less
9:40AM Seamus Byrne | Hey, chubster. Do you have trouble keeping a healthy diet? Would having a friendly, diet-focused robot in your kitchen help? No? Well, don’t tell the guys at the MIT Media Lab that, because that’s exactly what they’ve been cooking up. It’s an in-home robot that’ll make eye contact with you while it tracks your eating habits and shuns you for constantly nibbling on Doritos rather than carrot sticks. It’s like a nagging spouse, but it doesn’t have the personal investment of having to see you naked. I’m not sure if that’s a plus or a minus in its favor. [MIT Media Lab via Crave] More »
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Hello Kitty Health System Cutely Calls You a Fatty Boombatty
2:20AM Seamus Byrne | 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?) camera phone diet assessment making the rounds in Japan, but the results are more immediate. Besides, hello, Hello Kitty sticker—it’s never too early for young girls to obsess over what they eat. – Matt Buchanan Hello Kitty Body Fat Meter [Gizmodiva via Ubergizmo] More »
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