Fitness Phone Fights Fat and Bad Breath

[Jerry Raia]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2007/10/017513.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2007/10/017513.htm</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>&quot;Reuters reports that NTT DoCoMo has come out with a &quot;Fitness Phone&quot; that &quot;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. &quot;And you can also exhale into the phone and it will tell you whether its time to reach for the breath mints.&quot;&quot;</em></p><p>Is it just me or are things getting a little silly on the fringes here? I don't think this is a WM Standard device in the works, at least I hope not. It might be a good add on for the iPhone however.&nbsp;If I ever see someone blowing into their phone I might conclude they have more to worry about than their breath.</p>

[Mike Temporale]

It's interesting what they'll jam into a phone now-a-days, eh? Everyone thought a camera was silly at first, but it grow on people and now it's pretty much standard. While I don't want to see these things in my phone, I won't be surprised to see this in more phones in the future.