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October 3, 2007

Fitness Phone fights fat and bad breath

Reuters reports that NTT DoCoMo has come out with a "Fitness Phone" that "can measure your pulse or the amount of steps you've taken in a day, dispenses heath advice after you've punched in statistics such as gender, age and weight.

And you can also exhale into the phone and it will tell you whether its time to reach for the breath mints."

Their target audience? According to Kentaro Endo, spokesman for NTT DoCoMo. "Our primary target groups would be fat-fighting middle-aged businessmen and young women on diets."

Other mobile breath analyzers:

-- LG’s Cellphone Prevents Drunk Dialing

-- DoCoMo Cell Phone Can Test Whether Drivers Have Been Drinking

-- Siemens working on breathalyzer cellphone (2004)

-- German Mobile Phone to Detect Bad Breath

Other diet phone schemes:

-- Personal Dietician by cell phone

-- Mobile technology Joins The Battle Against The Bulge

-- Use your mobile to lose weight with "Beauty Walker"

-- 3 launch Atkins calorie counter for mobile phones

-- Atkins to count carbs on cell phones

-- 'Well-Being' Fad Hits Cell Phone Market, Too