The Knight Rider of Weight Loss

Every now and again it's nice to come across something that is quite humorous, in relation to weight loss, I was looking at various news articles and stories, and this article really caught my eye. A Russian inventor has come up with a novel idea to help you with your weight loss, you have a system that is installed within your car and it acts like a personal coach, when you get in the car there are sensors in the doors and seats.

It seems to have personality as well it will be very frank and honest with you about your efforts, if you're not doing very well it will sound an alarm or display admonishments to you. The inventor said:

''I wanted to put in a warning and a message,'' Mr. Kriger said of the alerts that the system's microcomputer can issue on its touch-screen display. '''You ate too much! Don't do it next time!' It will tell you in a friendly way, 'Oh, you're overweight! What happened?"

Mr Kriger, who invented the device who was brought up in Russia, decided to invent the device after pondering ways of preventing obesity, his ideas were based on a system that would give feedback to people so they wouldn't have to think about it, the system tells you how much you will weigh in three weeks or three months, if you visit somewhere for lunch you can input that information into the device, and the can tell you how much you can eat there.

If by unfortunate circumstances you have either gained weight or on the flipside lost weight the computer will adjust itself to give you better options.

When you first set the system up you can input your doctor's phone number or e-mail address, so it can notify them when you're overweight. It can be fitted to other vehicles as well such as boats or vans. Thinking about it what would happen, if say this technology became so advanced in the future, that say for instance you went to a McDonalds drive-in and because it knew you were there, it would drive the car to a healthier eating establishment. Wouldn't that be the ultimate thing surely.

Via http://query.nytimes.com