Want to impress your friends with your stories of your fabulous luxury vacation, but just don’t have the dosh? Well never fear, there’s a new website that’ll handle everything for you. Welcome to “Total Recall” (named after the famous Arnold Schwarzenegger movie). Starting at a mere US$75, you need merely upload a few photographs of yourself — a few of showing your profile, your portrait, and some full-body shots — and Total Recall will return to you a complete set of holiday photographs showing you enjoying the destination of your choice (created using a state-of-the-art, PhotoShop-like software, adjusting lighting, shadows, and other attributes to enhance realism), as well as flight ticket stubs, some memoriabilia (choose from refrigerator magnets, t-shirts and baseball caps), and, as necessary, a bottle of spray-on tanning lotion.
“Before Total Recall, I’d never, ever had a date,” said Morty Feinbacher, a 41-year-old accountant who lives with his mother in Lincoln, Nebraska. “But all I did was set up a digital camera with a tripod in my mom’s basement, shoot about 30 pictures of myself in various clothing and positions, then I uploaded the photos, and voila — 200 photos of me enjoying myself in the Pacific nation of Palau returned. There are even pictures of me diving — DIVING! And I’m allergic to kelp! I took the set to my local singles bar, and women haven’t stopped calling since.”
Destinations include hot spots from North America, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. Africa is destined to be included in the lineup in 2007.