It’s true; I couldn’t make this up. A friend and I were discussing how CBS had used some kind of photographic technology to slim down Katie Couric to promote her debut as the first female anchor of the evening news.

Well, it turns out that you, too, can instantly lose weight and appear slimmer in a photograph. On Hewlett Packard’s shopping web site, there are a slew of digital cameras that take off those extra ten pounds and instantly slim you down.

Underneath the seductive words, “Slimming photos with HP digital cameras,” appears this teaser: “They say cameras add ten pounds, but HP digital cameras can help reverse that effect. The slimming feature, available on select HP digital camera models, is a subtle effect that can instantly trim off pounds from the subjects in your photos!”

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