Deliciously Stephy

Anti-fat weaponry - from the same inventor as musical condom

December 12th, 2006

So here are 5 inventions by Dr Hryhory Chausovsky, a well-known Ukrainian scientist, that help you keep your New Year’s resolution. Which is your favourite?

I’d love a talking plate, a musical plate, a sensitive belt, and a smart-fridge.

1. The talking plate

It is 15 centimetres in diameter and connected to a palm-sized computer.

Weight sensors allow the diner to load up his plate with a fixed volume of food, and

if he piles on more, a recording informs the diner of his impending sin.

“Where’s your willpower?” demands the plate.

2. The sensitive belt

It monitors expansion of the wearer’s stomach as the meal proceeds,

and peeps a discreet alarm when maximum allowable extension has been reached.

The idea behind this device is that we only start feeling we are full twenty minutes or more after we start eating,

and in that time period it’s time enough to eat two or three times the proper amount of food.

The belt tells the wearer he has reached ‘fullness’ before the person’s own body will tell him he is full.

3. The musical plate

Equipped with a contact sensor built in the food containment area, and a mini-synthesiser,

it plays music each time the diner’s fork or spoon strikes the plate.

If the utensil strikes are too rapid, the plate will play fast and aggressive music

while if the person eats more slowly, the music will be calmer and less stressful.

The natural human tendency to avoid stress and find calm will therefore slow down the eating process.

3. A lightweight arm band

A motion detector on the arm-band counts calories by the individual bite.

It is especially suitable for the really enthusiastic gourmand who are unable to limit himself.

4. The smart fridge

A simple contact magnet and recorder are connected to the refrigerator door, and

it demands of the user every time the door is opened

“Are you here because you are really hungry, or is it just your emotions?”

5. Scent-ring

The wearer puts on the jewellery, “scent-ring”, which emits a strong perfume partially masking the smell of food,

and so reducing the desire to overeat.

6. Food spectacles

It is a pair of tinted glasses which turns the sight of even the most appetising goody, visually anyway, into something quite possibly inedible.

Source: iol

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