Remember that medical tablet Panasonic revealed at IDF earlier this year? No? Well, it happened. Details were pretty hard to come by then, but the company’s officially announced the product as the H1 tablet. The fully ruggedized slate is built on familiar netbook internals with a 1.86 GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, an [...]
Termites be warned: Australian outfit Termicam is bringing the noise Predator-style with the Termibot, a dual-tread thermal imaging robot designed to eliminate insects. The bot scoots around inside walls and under houses relaying information from its thermal camera and moisture sensors back to an operator, and when termite (or other insect) activity is detected, it [...]
There’s already a bevy of devices out there designed to keep track and manage one’s diabetes and glucose levels, but Eli Lilly’s innocuous pen-like injector looks to make the process of taking insulin a bit less invasive. The Huma-Pen Memoir resembles your average ink pen and shouldn’t look too out of place holding it down [...]
This whole electrocardio business is all well and good, but we must confess our initial disappointment when we realized that the little display on the left palm rest of this laptop was no SideShow apparatus — though we suppose you already knew how we feel about that little bit of Vista goodness that is SideShow. [...]
If you’re the type who rocks latex gloves everywhere you go, or you’re just tired of toting around that messy liquid hand sanitizer, Hammacher Schlemmer has your solution. Posing as a flip-phone wannabe, this handheld germ-eliminating light reportedly eradicates “99.99-percent of E-Coli, staphylococcus, salmonella, and germs that cause the flu and the common cold.” Aside [...]
For around $5705, “The Cosmo†luxury tub boasts 7 Hydro massage jets; 9 bubble jets; 6 back massage jets, a built-in 8.5-inch LCD TV, and video inputs for connecting your DVD player. Product page here.
What, your bathtub doesn’t have a TV built into it? Shame. Keeping one tied up to the radiator above the tub [...]
Must say Sudoku is going places…places that you cannot even think it can go.
All sudoku addicts have a reason to smile as from now onwards they won’t have to take their newspaper in the toilet, for now their favorite game will be right their inside the toilet, 24X7.
Where? On the toilet tissue paper. Yes, these [...]
Boston has got the newest and the more energy efficient, third generation version of the solar trash compactor, The BigBelly to keep-away from the problem of overstuffed public trash cans. The self-compacting, solar-powered trashcan developed by a Jamaica Plain inventor is powered by photoelectric panels, which supply power to motor-driven compactors inside. The green-colored boxy [...]
As people age and develop ocular diseases such as glaucoma and retinitis pigmentosa, an unfortunate side effect is the gradual inability to locate and recognize objects not directly in front of them — a condition more commonly known as tunnel vision. Previous gadgets designed to combat this problem, such as so-called reverse binocular glasses, have [...]
The Standing Wheelchair concept design allows wheelchair users to stand upright in the wheelchair, allowing them to see the world as they did before. It looks similar to a Segway, but has more features to help the user keep upright and hold on to the wheelchair.
One of the many lifestyle adjustments paraplegic wheelchair users have [...]
In addition to being a mode of transportation, “The Treadmill Bike†by Bike Forest also functions as a calorie burning, exercise machine.
The Treadmill Bike’s hard wearing belt offers a sure grip while protecting your feet from dirt and other contaminants commonly found on the earth’s surface
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We always said those sophisticated tracking tags had to be good for something other than data processing and jazzing up passports, and as the list of applications continues to grow, a study at Stanford University is showing how RFID chips can be used to potentially save lives. 1 out of 10,000 surgery survivors will experience [...]
We’re looking for a way to put the hurt on clouds of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, something a mosquito-repelling T-shirt or necklace probably can’t do very well. Enter the Mega-Catch Ultra Trap, a serious-looking contraption that lures in the little buggers with a combination of flashing LEDs, an ultraviolet light and a strip of octenol. After attracting [...]
Motiva is a kind of backwards TiVo for the elderly. It transforms the TV into a way for nurses and doctors to monitor patient’s level of knowledge and track their lifestyle and medication habits. Then health care providers can give feedback to the user if there’s any changes to be made or reminders about future [...]
Dave of Dave’s Insanity Sauce fame has released a hot sauce that comes in an adjustable bottle. It actually works by having two compartments, one with hot sauce and one with mild sauce. Twist the nozzle at the top to determine what hot sauce mixture you want, kind of like a spicy fuel mechanic. Your [...]
When Philips was looking for medical applications for their flexible Ledfoil disks, they were probably hoping to find a market of more than 200 people, but luckily for sufferers of the rare Crigler-Najjar syndrome, they happened to come across Dutch student Philomeen Engels. Engels, a recent graduate of the Delft University of Technology, had the [...]
If your coworker in the next cube has an odor somewhere between a puddle of urine in the subway and the Antichrist, click on the link as fast as humanly possible. This USB powered air purifier provides a breath soothing freshness that’s so desperately missing from corporate America today. At a price of $20, it’s [...]
A radical new GPS-enabled wheelchair with fat tires and four-wheel drive may soon offer disabled individuals the ability to tool around almost any terrain while still being protected by a virtual “tether” to a remote command center. The Superfourin chair, as it’s known, is basically a modified ATV with a hybrid engine, on-board computer, and [...]
We’re not too fond of trips to the dentist, for all the obvious reasons (plus the fact that we still can’t get the image of Steve Martin as the sadistic tooth-ripper in “Little Shop of Horrors” out of our head). But if more tools like the VELscope come onto the market, we may just start [...]
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The future is now — sort of. We were just waiting for robots to start reproducing before we gave over the future of humanity to these beings, and while this might be a mere simulated pregnancy for med students to practice on, it seems close enough to us. The robot, named Noelle, is a life-sized [...]
