Pedometer Phone

TechRadar: Japanese mobile phones are very hit and miss – some have fantastic (mostly network-related) services, yet are ugly as sin, while others look great but offer very little else. Now, however, a new category is becoming apparent, as the number of simple-to-use handsets from major manufacturers is increasing, while included functions aimed at their elderly users become more useful than the music and video players found on normal models.
A perfect example is the new F884iES, a mobile made by Fujitsu for market-leader NTT DoCoMo’s Raku Raku (Easy Peasy) range of phones for OAPs.
The new handset creates a daily health diary for its owner by combining information gathered from two sources built into the phone.
A pedometer measures how far the user walks each day – the Japanese government recommends 10,000 paces daily for retired people, who can often be seen clutching dedicated pedometers in the street, incidentally – and adds it to data from an ingenious bit of camera trickery.
BPM phone uses camera to measure heart rate [TechRadar]