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USB neck massage scarf

Neck and shoulder pains might have followed you for quite some times, if you’re one who has to work intensively in front of the computer. Here comes the USB neck massage scarf which comes in handy to apply massages to your neck and shoulder to relax the muscles that are getting stiff over time.

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Withings scale tweets your weight, lets the world track your slimming plan

Withings Connected Body scale has a better way to urge you to keep your slimming plan going, by tweeting your weight on Twitter. Such a move allows your followers to stay aware of your weight losses or gains. It should be a good way to motivate you lose more weight or to achieve what you want as everyone’s eyes are on your weight losing plan. And you don’t wanna be a loser!

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Handheld reading aid magnifies words and outputs on TV

Poor-sighted will always face difficulty to read newspapers or books. Here comes an electronic reading aid that can be connected to a larger display such as TV or monitor to provide 20x of magnification.

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Cellphone Microscope diagnoses diseases on the run

Health-conscious geeks may love the idea of having your cellphone to double up as a microscope which you could use it to sniff out any bugs and germs around. An assistant professor of electrical engineering of University of California’s NanoSystems Institute, Aydogan Ozcan, has designed a cellphone microscope that allows you to screen diseases on the run.

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Vioguard keyboard kills germs left by your dirty hands

Computer keyboards are normally dirty, as most users will have their hands touching a number of other items, some even with burger in their hands while they’re typing. There could be lots of food debris stuck in between of each key of the keyboard. If it’s a computer shared by many hands, the keyboard is even dirtier and it can even pass germs from one to another.

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Anti-gravity treadmill meant to reduce training injuries

Here come the M300 Series AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmills, which have adopted the anti-gravity technology developed by NASA, meant to reduce training injuries.

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Smart prosthetic hand has feelings

A prosthetic hand called smart hand is being developed by researchers in Italy and Sweden, which allows the patients to have feelings in the fingertips.

The smart hand was tested on some patient, where it had four motors and forty sensors linked directly to the brain. They had surgery to have the patients’ nerve endings linked up to receptors in the prosthetic hand, enabling the patients to have feelings in figertips of the hand, even though it is not really part of the body.

The smart hand is the first of its kind that sends signal back to brain. It has taken the researchers 10 years of hard work, and finally they have one that at least allows those who’ve lost their hands to regain little sense of touch.

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Pocket-sized ultrasound device – GE Vscan

You’ve just heard the good news of your wife is pregnant, and you’re overly excited and very eager to know how the baby develops in her womb. To do that, you have to bring your wife to the doctor’s office for Ultrasound scanning. But now a pocket-sized ultra sound device, GE Vscan makes it exceptional, allows you to have a scan of the baby in the womb anytime.

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Philips DirectLife tracks your daily activity and energy expenditure

Computer workers will normally sit in front of the computer, keep typing on the keyboard, a kind of lifestyle that is not healthy at all. You’ve gotta have sufficient activity and expend sufficient amount of energy in a day then only you can stay healthy and have the strength to carry out other house work for your spouse.

Anyway, Philips has announced their DirectLife, which is a little gadget that you can clip to your belt or keep in your pocket, so it can then track your daily activity. It can even show your daily energy expenditure and tell you how much energy you should be expending a day. With this little gadget in your pocket you should always catch up with the shorts told by the gadget and stay up to par with your daily activity to keep you fit and energetic.

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Electronic Itch stopper takes your itches away

Some itches on your body will stay for some time. No matter how hard and frequent you scratch it, it still remains on your skin. And some more keep on scratching may make it worse, especially will cause damages on your skin. Here comes an Electronic Itch Stopper which is able to remove your itches electronically, it’s much more effective than any traditional methods introduced by your granny.

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