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Obvious question time: how soon will health insurance companies require the overweight to wear one of these?
The fight against fat is going high-tech. To get an inside look at eating and exercise habits, scientists are developing wearable wireless sensors to monitor overweight and obese people as they go about their daily lives.
The experimental devices are designed to keep track of how many minutes they work out, how much food they consume and even whether they are at a fast-food joint when they should be in the park. The goal is to cut down on self-reported answers that often cover up what’s really happening.
In a lab in this Los Angeles suburb, two overweight teenagers help test the devices by taking turns sitting, standing, lying down, running on a treadmill and playing Wii. As music thumps in the background, wireless sensors on their chests record their heart rates, stress levels and amount of physical activity. The information is sent to a cell phone.
I think I am going to register the domain “grossphotosthatdontworkonwebsites.com” and “thankgodforadblockplus.com” in response to this gross insult on my photographic memory.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Great, another whale story. Why not harpoon these things?
Internet monitored and triggered shock collars plz.
“Obvious question time: how soon will health insurance companies require the overweight to wear one of these?” Insurance companies? How about countries with nationalized health care?
I already have one of these in my house – my wife, she watches me like a hawk.
Having a genetic predisposition is not an illness. Hundreds of thousands of generations of evolution have proved that. When the big famine arrives and there isn’t enough food for everybody, I’ll still be living off my own tissue while those calvin klein models are feeding the vultures.
Where’s the bottle of Jack Daniels? To allow something like this on top of you there must be liquor involved.
Poor guy. You hate to see it when even cutting off your arm is not enough for an early morning escape.
#5 LOL
..having a genetic predisposition is not an illness. Hundreds of thousands of generations of evolution have proved that.
What is proved is that chasing and beating with a stick early prey required a lot more energy that chasing that pint of Haggen Daz Cherry Garcia on aisle 7.
You guys need to start putting a NSFViewing alert over these pictures.
#8 – Why is this not safe? Other then the possibility of getting your ass smashed.
#7 dullass – My ancestors kept busy trying to satisfy a need and were successful to the point of excess. Same goes for me. At 1.89 mts. I weigh 140 kilos, up from 85 kilos at a time when I was homeless. So far heart, lungs, blood pressure and cholesterol all good. I’m cook in my house and have little need for junk food. Most fat people are compelled to eat the same way a control freak is compelled to control, or a disciplined person is compelled to act responsibly. Problem is narcissistic people think they’re just wonderful and it’s all thanks to their own efforts. So anybody that’s not beautiful like them has a psychological or medical problem.
He should have ran when she said “I like to be on top”.
This blog is a device that monitors how corrupt you are.
The lede image: Self-evident proof.
#10 Good for you. The ancestral timeframe I was referring to went back a whole lot further than the 1900’s.
How did you rationalize that being fit equates to being narcissistic?
I always liked a bit of ballast to keep from scooting up against the headboard, but that’s a bit much.
#13, Because if you are fit, you obviously care about yourself.
I guess that makes me narcissistic, too.
#15 If, as you say you are ‘fit’, it’s thanks to genetic predisposition. If you think it’s because you care about yourself, then it’s genetic predisposition and narcissism. Trying to apply rigid rules to the human gene pool is what the Nazi’s were all about, They were the biggest narcissists ever.
#16 So being fit is not so cool because it makes you a narcissist ? Is this what they taught you at Burger King University?
Alrighty then.
If you think working out, eating right, and staying off drugs doesn’t affect your physical well being (and thus your emotional well being), then you are justifying your couch potato lifestyle.
However, if that is what gets you through life, I am happy for you. Different strokes.
#18,
No, Dallas challenged that being fit made a person narcissistic. Since narcissism isn’t necessarily a good trait, even though it is quite common among the selfish, Dallas is quite right not to want to be labeled as such.
I am required to be fit for my job. I even have yearly medicals to prove I’m fit. But narcissistic? Damn!, I sure hope not.
#19, I believe people are confusing narcissism with conceit. Granted, there are levels to everything, but a blanket statement that being fit makes one narcissistic is wrong (i.e., I agree with you).
A little narcissism is actually a good thing. For instance, in the book, “Shame: The Underside of Narcissism (Paperback),” Morrison shows that it is needed as a balance between what you want and what you need. If you ever find yourself being ashamed of some action, then you have a bit of narcissistic in you.
I was making the assumption that everyone knew a little narcissism was ok. My bad.
#20,
nar·cis·sism (närs-szm) also nar·cism (-szm)
n.
1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself. See Synonyms at conceit.
2. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.
3. Erotic pleasure derived from contemplation or admiration of one’s own body or self, especially as a fixation on or a regression to an infantile stage of development.
4. The attribute of the human psyche charactized by admiration of oneself but within normal limits.
About devices, we do need some more geniuses working on them. Here’s an example,
http://www.cracked.com/funny-2133-kitchen-gadgets/
Kitchen is heaven now that these geniuses have given us these.
There can be too much of a good thing.
#21, And this disputes me how?
I believe you are being narcissistic now. You want to be right 🙂
#24,
And you’re being selfish. Still. You want it to be all about you.
A little narcissism is actually a good thing. @ #20
Only to the selfish.