Okay this is interesting:

"World's first weight loss device"?

Okay, sure, I'll bite.

Or maybe I won't bite.

BECAUSE THIS DEVICE DOESN'T ALLOW ME TO!!

Dude, that's not a weight loss device.

It's a lock for your jaw!!!!

That's like saying you've developed the world's first anti-aging device and it's just an electric chair.

Here, you tell me what you think:

University of Otago and UK researchers have developed a world-first weight-loss device to help fight the global obesity epidemic.

DentalSlim Diet Control is an intra-oral device fitted by a dental professional to the upper and lower back teeth. It uses magnetic devices with unique custom-manufactured locking bolts. It allows the wearer to open their mouths only about 2mm, restricting them to a liquid diet, but it allows free speech and doesn't restrict breathing.

That's messed up, right?

You're limited to a liquid diet.

[insert boomer-level alcohol joke here]

But I seriously cannot understand how this is a thing.

And speaking of having your jaw locked shut, can we also say that this is the world's first device that will get that one friend who always talks—even when the silence is so perfect and enjoyable you'd think no soul in the world would dare to interrupt it—to finally just shut up?

We all have that friend.

And maybe he could lose a little weight, too...

You should get him one of these devices.