Want to exercise? You could as well use an animated gym for those body movement prompts. A new-age `Gym’ from Takara Tomy named the Minutes Gym, a concise white box, can be plugged to your television though composite connection, and best of all, carry it anywhere you go.

If you are a fitness freak with no guidance, this is just the thing for you. All you need to do is, to enter in your personal details such as your height, weight, gender etc, and hold the two contact points that come with it.

It gives the Takara Tomy’s Minutes Gym time to work out your body fat percentage. A custom exercise routine is figured out from the details that emerge. Guess who leads the exercises? A bunch of six animated characters – neither fitness aces nor celebrities.

The Minutes Gym consists of a whole lot of guided work-outs, that last three minutes each. The Gym can keep in its memory , display of a maximum of three months of your workout history. And has, 100,000,000 different workouts. For all its volumes, the Gym is hardly 10 grams in weight, and measures 48 x 120 x 24mm. It costs only $ 73, but can run on three AAA batteries.

Via: Slashgear, Japan Trends Shop