Health and Hygiene Category - Page 8

No, you read that headline correctly–Qualcomm is working on a line of bandaids with some serious information capability behind them. Indeed, the Piix Smart Bandaid is as smart as the name implies.

If you’re anything like me, then a kitchen countertop to you is just a handy place to put stuff. But now, it’s about to be a whole lot more than that thanks to the Oasis Smart Kitchen Countertop, a device that turns your countertop into a gigantic source of information.

It’s been a good while since we talked about vacuum cleaners here–and why not? They’re boring, right? No one cares about vacuum cleaners!–but there’s a good reason to change that perspective. His name is Hibiki Kono, and he’s the Japanese Spider-Man…thanks to his amazing vacuum grapples.

This is patently incredible news, folks–apparently, doctors out at Rice University managed to take a commercially-available Olympus E-330 and soup it up sufficiently to give it enough zoom to see oral cancer cells, on the camera’s LCD monitor.

Hilarious as it may seem, you will agree that at one point in your life you would be begging for toilet paper availability at home or at public places. While before people really had no choice but to make do with what they had, here is a funny but effective [...]

Polar has officially announced their WearLink+ heart rate monitor, which is compatible with Nike+ devices. But perhaps a little more important is that this also means Nike+ users will now be able to monitor and track their heart rate during a workout.

Will a machine that remembers your weight be popular? For some audiences, it already is. Tanita Corp has developed a body composition meter-integrated scale that remembers your weight. But that’s not all it does. It also helps users measure their internal body fat ratio and internal age using (an industry [...]

While they’re not sitting on pink with dreary sales leading to slashed profits, Nintendo have officially unveiled today the new DSi LL with availability starting from November 21, in Japan, and are all geared up to release the new Nintendo Wii Fit Plus, tomorrow.

How many hours do you spend in front of the computer? Does your back hurt? What about your joints and in particular your knees? There’s no point in denying it, the more time you spend at your desk whether at work or at home, the more likely to visit the [...]

After spending hours and hours writing about seemingly random and utterly useless USB-powered devices (you know what they are, so I won’t waste more space writing about them) it’s nice to see that a company has actually taken the time to come up with a USB gadget that might, just [...]