Household Tech Category - Page 12

Good news for those of you looking for a new massage chair and whose trust fund checks have just arrived–the AcuTouch HT-9500 has hit the market, and it’s cheaper than expected!

Bingo is for everyone. Apparently, that includes green-minded individuals, too. While UK’s Mecca Bingo traditionally sports a pink color scheme, it’s now going green, by giving away eco-friendly gadgets to members.

I’ve seen a lot of clock radios. I’ve seen clock radios that automatically update themselves with atomic clocks across the country. I’ve seen clock radios that display the current time in hologram, or projected onto your ceiling or wall. But I can’t remember ever seeing a clock radio with Internet [...]

I once knew a guy who had a hearing aid. He had a trick he liked to pull that, when he didn’t want to talk to someone, he’d pretend it wasn’t working so as to just “Eh? What?” his way through a conversation until the victim (or, in his case, [...]

Used to be, way back when, when you were tired you just went to bed and that was the end of the story until the sun came up or the rooster crowed and it was time to start thatching the roof and getting the plow animals to work. But now, [...]

It’s a great day when I can actually start with robot news, because I’m terribly fond of robots and they usually make for good stories. And today I’ve got a real beauty to bring up–the Sofie (Surgeon’s Operating Force-feedback Interface Eindhoven) surgical robot.

Look for this to be the newest form of liveblogging as people hook themselves up to a new Dutch invention that displays their vitals round the clock. It’s called the Body Area Network, and while it bodes well for medical research and similar personnel, it also has the potential to [...]

The folks out at MIT have brought us a lot of great inventions, folks, but this may well be one of the oddest and most useful too–their Medical Lab Mirror will actually measure your pulse and display it right before your eyes…while you’re brushing your teeth.

Starting at some point next year, according to reports, you may well see folks who formerly were unable to walk tromping around your area in exoskeletal devices from the folks at Berkeley Bionics. Dubbed the eLEGS system, they offer incredible promise…at an incredible price tag.

If you’re looking for a speaker dock that’s been designed to work with your iPad but will work equally well with your iPhone and iPod then you may be interested in a new iPad Speaker Dock, known as the iLuv iMM747 iPad Speaker Dock, which set to hit release this [...]