You might be tempted to call it FatNav: smartphone software is set to guide dieters to places selling low-calorie foods in their locality. Once users have entered their target calorific intake for the day, the WebDiet software correlates GPS position with the fare on offer at local restaurants and grocery shops to help people avoid fast-food outlets. Users can also count calories at home by scanning the barcodes on food packaging.
A bendable, A4-size 鈥渆-paper鈥� reader will be available by mid-2009, according to Plastic Logic of Cambridge, UK 鈥� up to six months later than originally planned (New 杏吧原创, 27 January 2007, p 24). The device, which will use a wireless internet connection to update content continuously, is designed for magazine and newspaper pages, unlike its paperback-sized rivals, the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader.
