blowing out the candles

Big in Japan

Users in Japan are buying products and losing weight with their built in camera phones

Cellphone cameras are kind of an afterthought in the U.S., fun for snapping off a picture of Great Uncle Harold blowing out the candles at his 93rd birthday party, or occasionally handy for a few seconds of grainy Zapruder-esque amateur news video. But thats hardly the case in Japan, where cell cameras are like an extra appendage used for a host of applications not available in the West.

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