In Tokyo, there are goggles that trick the wearer into thinking the plain snack in their hand is a chocolate cookie, or make biscuits appear larger, which offer hope to weak-willed dieters everywhere.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed devices that use computer wizardry and augmented reality to fool the senses and make sure users feel more satisfied with smaller or less appealing treats.
On one device goggle-mounted cameras send images to a computer, which magnifies the apparent size of the cookie in the image it displays to the wearer while keeping his hand the same size, making the snack appear larger than it actually is. In the experiments, volunteers consumed nearly 10 per cent less when the biscuits they were eating appeared 50 per cent bigger. In addition, they (volunteers) ate 15 per cent more when cookies were manipulated to look two-thirds of their real size.
Professor Michitaka Hirose at the university's graduate school of information science and technology said he was interested i how computers can be used to trick the human mind. He says experiment so far have shown 80 per cent of subject are fooled. The team has no plans as yet to commercialize their invention, but would like to investigate whether people want to lose weight can use the device.
In my point of view, I think Japanese are really creative by coming out with the idea of helping people to loss weight by fooling our sense of sight. With this technology, girls and people who suffer from obesity will really benefit from it and will be able to loss their weights rather than going under surgeries.
Even though this invention helps people to loss weight, it still take a longer time to allow the people to succeed in weight losing compared to exercising. Therefore, i think if people who is on diet wants to loss weight more quickly and in a healthier way, using this invention and exercise more regularly will be the best way.
However the technology also insulted the human intelligent. This is because just by using technology, our sense of sight will be fooled and it indirectly tells us that the machinery are getting smarter than our human brain. I will not buy this invention because I think only by exercising and having a healthy diet will already help to loss weight. Having this creation only help the people to resist the urge to have high in-take of foods like junk foods. People who are determine to go for a diet should have self-control and personally resist themselves form eating too much.
In conclusion, it is really creative for the Japanese to come out with this interesting ideas and hope that they will continue to work hard and create better invention.
http://www.yourhealth.com.sg/content/japan-diet-glasses-fool-wearers-eating-less
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