Japanese women may soon be tapping on the hit Nintendo DS handheld game machine for beauty tips and don’t need to visit a beauty or fitness expert, such as taking extra fluids and monitoring skin tones. Their gaming device is guide enough to route them to get in shape and give them a glow. Well if you think I’m going bonkers or am super obsessed by the DS and thus am stating things like this then read on and I shall prove my sanity to you. The “beauty navigation software,” as the company describes it, asks questions that the player answers regarding criteria such as skin tone and smoothness, as well as exposure to sunlight and hours of sleep.
“Dream Skincare” was recently shown in Tokyo, part of recent efforts by Nintendo to attract newcomers to gaming. The software is supposed to give sound advice to female users about following a healthy regime, users input their daily body temperature and weight by marking a graph that shows up on the touch panel, according to Konami Corp, which made the software. As Corporate Officer of Konami Digital Entertainment (Konami’s game software unit), put it, the company has developed this software with the idea of ‘getting pretty while having fun’. Read more!