Yep! Just when you thought you’d seen everything, and all the fanciest cellular phones that will do everything but make you a pot of coffee, there is now a state of the art phone that is purporting to act as your personal trainer, wherever you go, whether you want it to or not! It sounds almost like your very own little mini drill sergeant to me!

It’s called the “Wellness” mobile phone, and it is to be made by a Japanese firm, so far just the prototype is out. Just a few of the phones neat butt kicking abilities (kicking your butt, that is, and acting as a willpower summoner) are motion sensors that can tell when the person with the phone is moving, in turn counting calories burned during that time, a sensor on it that you can position a certain way to read your body fat, a built in mp3 player, and even a bad breath detector!

Talk about an all in one phone. It also has built in sayings that address whether you’re stressed, tired, anxious, and other things and has the best things to say as a pep talk to get you to get up and move around and just get through it. So in essence, it is like a personal trainer who coaxes, congratulates and encourages you to get off your butt and start working out.

Sometimes I think I could use a device like that – I think we could all relate to those periods of time when we just want to do nothing but watch tv, lay on the couch and bake cookies. But the downside to that is of course the it makes our backside inflate very quickly, especially the older we get! The Wellness phone should be available to the public soon, it was just unveiled at a trade show as a prototype recently.

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