Wellness Navigator cell phone

If you've ever enjoyed a garlicky meal, you may have followed it with a quick breath check by cupping your hands to your face and huffing. At times like this, a personal stink sensor could come in handy.

With that in mind, a Japanese company has unveiled a prototype cell phone with a built-in bad-breath meter that will let you know if you need to reach for a mint. It also keeps track of your activity level, your pulse, and your paunch, thanks to a built-in pedometer, a pulse meter, and a body-fat analyzer, which sends a small electrical signal through your body to assess its composition.

The prototype Wellness Navigator--a slider phone with a touch screen, manufactured by Mitsubishi--was shown off last week at the Ceatec 2007 exhibition in Tokyo by Japan's NTT DoCoMo, one of the world's leading mobile providers. It has all the standard features of a cell phone but also includes a heart rate monitor, bad reath analyzer, burned calorie counter, and body fat calculator, and pedometer application.

 DoCoMo have just launch the world’s first ever health conscious phone that comes with a Wellness Navigator. Launched at the ongoing Mobile World Congress, the stunning phone tells you your exact body fat percentage if you place your thumbs on the sensors while blowing into your blower can have the halitosis monitor tell you if your breath smells bad. And for the real fitness-freaks, the phone has a pedometer, heart rate monitor, time distance and calorie burning calculator that monitors your vitals while you workout with tunes from the set’s music player. And that’s not all. This amazing phone can also record your daily calorie intake by managing you’re eating and drink habits. DoCoMo reason that the Wellness Navigator is a “fun way to reinforce good health anytime, using your mobile phone. You too can have the perfect body.”