(Photo: Mashable)
Do you need to loosen your belt after a big meal? Or cut another hole after the holiday season? That's extra work and an unnecessary expenditure of calories that you've acquired into your portable fuel reserves. Instead, try a Belty: a new belt that automatically adjusts as your waist expands.
Note that it's not actually designed to help you keep eating without consequenes. The French company Emiota made Belty to help people track their fitness. Samantha Murphy Kelly writes for Mashable:
Given that the size of your waistline is a key indicator of health, the Belty — which comes equipped with small sensors, an accelerator and gyroscope — knows just how much you've been moving and whether you need to be more active.
The belt connects with an app that charts the data it collects throughout the day. It pushes out feedback and suggestions that correspond to how the belt adjusts in real time.
Inside the Belty is a collection of motors that expand and retract based on waist size — so it's also something you could buy once and keep over the years.
So it's a machine that nags you about your weight. But there's more! It's also an expensive machine that nags you about your weight:
The price point is still in question, too. A Belty representative told Mashable it is a "high-end product" with likely a luxury price tag.
-via Stuff
Comments (3)
I bought my first typewriter, a Royal Royalite 64 at California Typewriter. They were really friendly there, luckily for me its a quick bus ride from the UC Berkeley campus.
The first guy that invents a ribbon re-inker will make millions. Or go broke.
(maybe the ribbon companies will murder him)
...But that was way before "DOS" or "Windows" - Géé I'm getting óld...!
:-D
I don't remember inking typewriter ribbons. I did ink printer ribbons though. I remember dipping a fountain pen in the ink bottle and pulling the lever down to fill up the rubber bladder with ink. One brand of ink even had bottles with a small reservoir of ink near the lid so you wouldn't need to dip the pen way down into bottles that were nearly empty.
Remember when a bottle of ink and ribbons were really inexpensive? Now you almost have to mortgage the house to afford printer ink.
Then came Teletype printers but that's a story all by itself. GGG
(we all know why printers are so cheap)