We’ve seen a lot of products and services targeting “metabo” fighters—those typically middle-aged salarymen trying to rid themselves of the few extra inches around the mid-section associated with the dreaded metabolic syndrome. Of those, the “Virtual Wife” service from Metaboinfo.com has to be one of the best.
Subscribers to the free service can choose from one of four virtual wives, who include a cute maid café waitress, a cool domineering analyst, a motherly nurse, and a fashionable nail artist, and even pick her name. Users then input their height, weight, and lifestyle habits.
In return, they receive 4 emails daily from their virtual wife that include nagging reminders not to engage in unhealthy habits and suggestions for reaching their ideal body weight—all in a tone of voice appropriate to the chosen character.
The service also includes a “meal management tool” with a space to input a menu and find out how many calories are likely involved. We’ve featured coverage before of how mobile phones are being used as health aids, and while this example is less serious, it does fit the trend and furthermore, shows how these services are increasingly not only accessible from mobiles but instructive and communicative as well.
They have everything for everyone in Japan! Yikes, this feels like a creepy extrapolation of a blow up doll.
there’s a virtual Japanese boyfriend too.. what’s up with Japanese people?
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