How NOT to help overeaters

Of all the DUMB things I've heard about.  I can't believe anyone would think this is a good idea.  Or at all useful.

Inventors have created a device that lets people eat as much as they want, regardless of the calories, and then have one third of those calories sucked out of their stomach with a pump device called "AspireAssist".

Its basically a D.I.Y. invitation to overeating, in my opinion.  The "clean" alternative to bulimia even.

How does enabling an overweight person to eat their regular intake, but only absorb 2/3rds of the calories constitute progress?  How does it enable them to make permanent change to the causes of overeating?

And the sad thing is that people are so desperate that they'll do it.