Here's a gadget you probably don't want to hear about so soon after Thanksgiving: a belly fat measurer. Made by Tanita of Japan, all you have to do is relax for a while under the AB-101 while it scans for your abdominal circumference and visceral fat. Don't get too comfortable, though, it wants to tell you all about what kind of shape you're in and that sort of info usually leads to heavy sighs and plans to start jogging again.

The Tanita AB-101 will cost over $2,600 when it comes out in February of 2008 in Japan, though it'll probably never see American shores. But hey, it's not USB fodder, and it scores points with us for looking a bit like those scanning beds in the sickbay on Star Trek: The Next Generation

Impress Watch, via Tokyo Mango