Here comes the Vioguard keyboard, the first of its kind that features a UV sanitizer that can kill germs and viruses. The sanitizer is a 25-watt UV light that claims to be able to kill 99.99% of bacteria and viruses in about 90 seconds. Leaving the 0.1%, which should be defendable by your own body immune system.

Some more, this keyboard is motorized, equipped with IR sensor, which hides itself when it’s not in use so it will not get contaminated by dust and dirt around. Wave your hand in front of the IR sensor, it’ll come out to serve you.

The Vioguard self-clean keyboard was introduced at the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) 91st annual meeting, October 12-17 in Toronto. It aims at medical market uses and consumers in Canada. The keyboard should appeal to health-conscious geeks, especially during the time when H1N1 flu is still pretty active over the globe. Equip one of these for your family who possibly share only one computer at home. But it’ll run you with an expensive price of $899. Video below shows the self-clean keyboard in action.

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These new anti-gravity treadmills allow the user to run or walk with a fraction of their body weight to allow injury recovery quicker and better control and reduce chances of training injuries.

These special treadmills would probably give the kind of feeling like space or moon walking, with less gravity applied to your body. But it’d probably take you some time to get used to the less-gravity running.

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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.

Of course, don’t compare with the real or biological hand made by God, as it has over millions of nerves in it, which current human technology can’t achieve with such a superb precision in this decade. Maybe, next decade they could probably have something closer.

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The GE Vscan ultrasound device looks like a cheap clamshell phone, which has a display that will show you the baby. Although the device is super handy to let you look at what you want, but it shouldn’t be good to do it often as pregnant women are delicate.

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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.

The DirectLife is now available at the DirectLife online store for a price of $79 (Until Oct 30th), which includes a 4-month membership. After the initial 4 months, the membership will then cost you $12.50 a month. Apparently, it involves a long-term running cost if you always wanna stay aware of your daily activity and energy expenditure.

Perhaps you could make use of the DirectLife to track over a period of time of what kind of activities that you should carry out to get to the qualified level. And continue carrying out the same activities even without the gadget.

Buy online, Philips DirectLife

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Simply apply the electronic Itch stopper on the part that is itching for about 20 seconds, the itch will be gone for the entire day. It can work on all types of itches including a chronic itch, or from rashes or insect bites. The Itch stopper simply produces mild electronic energy, which destroys trouble-causing toxins beneath the skin and stops histamine release. Histamines are what make you itch, so you’ll need anti-histamines to stop itches.

This Itch stopper is scientifically proven, it’s backed with some scientific data here. The Itch stopper takes seconds only to stop itches, which is much more effective than using any lotions or creams, which normally lose their effect to the source of itch since they’re all applied on the outside of the skin. The device is safe to use, does not cause DNA damage or skin cancer and is FDA approved.

Buy online, Amazon, $60

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The Plasma Knife cuts through the fresh using its “blade” formed by the glowing ironized gas, and it’s found to effectively stop the bleeding and seal up the wound to perfection.

The Plasma Knife is now being tested by US soldiers in remote areas, where they can hardly get luxury medical treatment. The Plasma Knife can be used to stop bleeding, thus guarding the soldier against infection, keeping him stable before moving him to the medical centers at safer zone. It is definitely a great medical device that reduces death caused by blood loss from traumatic wounds.

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The Philips’ emo gadget consists of a Emobracelet which is to be worn on the wrist by the user, and a EmoBowl which is like a bowl that shows the user’s emotional readout in various lighted patterns. The Emobracelet can wirelessly send your emotional data gathered from your wrist to the bowl for a clear reflection of your emotions.

If you’re someone who’s been on the stock trading market or who always needs to make big decisions, your emotions will always have a big leap. Having this Philips device lets you stay aware, and it’s time to take a break, and you must learn to know when enough is enough.

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Helys sends you a DNA test kit in a mail which has a mouth swab that is to gather saliva contains your genetic information. The company can then create a 100 dpi DNA image, which will then be sent to you via email. Download it and install it as a wallpaper on your iPhone or other gadgets as well, to have your undeniable claims of ownerships of all your gadgets.

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The alarm clock has been on the market since couple of years ago. And now the company has unveiled a single edition in black with limited 2,000 units coming in mid of October. The aXBo single lets you easily update a new sound package that has six waking sounds and three chill-out sounds using the included USB cable.

Some more the aXBo single can be upgraded with a second sensor, which can be used for guiding your significant other who sleeps beside you. The movement sensor is supposed to be worn on your wrist and the aXBo alarm clock is able to calculate the optimal waking time based on your body movements, sleep phases, and wake you up gently in the last 30 minutes of your sleep, when you’re about fully awake. So you’ll be able to start the day with full energy.

The aXBo alarm clock also allows the users to transfer the collected data of your sleep patterns or cycles to the computer foir further analysis so you can have nice graphs and charts to show off the way you sleep and wake.

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The device is powered by USB port of your computer, simply hook it up to an available USB port, and attach the patches on your neck to eliminate fatigue which has been accumulated due to long hours working in front of the computer.

The device can also be powered by AC/DC outlets and batteries, thus you can use it to relax and relieve your fatigue while you’re not in front of the computer. Chinese acupuncture has been known pretty effective in getting rid of toxic and accumulated stress in your body and the Happy U claims it actually imitates all the required techniques. So, it should be an effective one, I think I’ll give it a shot.

Buy online, $14.40, Uxsight

The user just needs to tilt the head to scroll through basic menu and select, deselect and choose a particular icon of the user interface of a gadget. The unique headset also got its name from the way it lets the user control gadgets. When the Tilt headset is not in use, it can be transformed into a wristband and worn on the wrist, so it’ll always be available when the user needs it. Currently, there is no pricing and actual availability date for the TILT headset.

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A handheld device has been developed by the engineers of Duke University, which can detect any early vision problem or vision loss that is commonly caused by ROP (Retinopathy of prematurity) in children.

The handheld device will help improve ROP diagnosis and treatment. The device makes use of spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD OCT) to let engineers capture 3D images of the back of the eye, which is the more effective way of identifying eye conditions in infants.

The SD OCT allows the creation of a 3D high-res map which provides very detailed view of the retina’s layer. Besides providing absolutely good details, it’s also able to produce the details 40 times much faster than the conventional method using ophthalmoscope.

The researchers hope by using the detailed images of the infant’s eyes, they will be able to predict how the infants’ disease and vision will be in the future.

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The website was launched by Environmental Working Group, it has information of radiation levels of 1,200 phone models. And the above shows the best and the worst. A number of Samsung, LG, Motorola models stay as the best with lowest radiations.

The worst are a number of Motorola models, the BlackBerry Bold 9000, Curve 8330, and the T-Mobile myTouch 3G etc.

Online Cellphone Radiation checker

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The device has only 6 keys, which each is meant for one of the dots of a Braille character. User will be able to enter up to 16 characters into the printer’s memory which can then be printed onto a roll of label tape.

This Braille Label Maker is a portable type that works on two AA batteries. With this Braille label maker, Braille labels can be more widely printed to help blind identify objects and learn Braille more easily.

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The StressWatch has a watch face that shows a black bar graph to tell you your stress levels. The blues and greens mean you’re mellow, but the pink, red or orange means that you’re stressed out. The StressWatch could possibly read your pulse or sweat from your wrist.

The watch also tells time, so you won’t miss your appointment. And at the same time you will be able to know your stress level when the time’s up or deadlines are close. Since the StressWatch is on your wrist, you should immediately look for a way to lower your stress level, such as taking a deep breath, looking at the watch until the stress subsides.

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The information gathered by this little USB glucose tracker can be plotted into various trends and patterns on the computer, which helps you analyze the long and short term facts. Such an information is very useful for the doctors to carry out more accurate diagnosis for their patients.

The Bayer USB glucose meter uses the Glucofacts Deluxe software for easy data retrieval and allows long term tracking and analysis of blood glucose levels. The device allows you to get much more accurate facts by allowing you to access up 2,000 test results. The device isn’t out yet in the market but you should be able to see it pretty soon.

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The little USB Iriscope connects to your computer’s USB port for power. You can be an iridologist by your own, having the Iriscope to capture images of your iris and transfer to the computer for analysis. It comes with software that helps you analyze the captured images, which also allows you to discover any possible sources of illness, whether your body is in good health condition and even the problem you’ve had in the past.

By using this little USB Iriscope, you can always carry out your own iris check, which it can be your portable health counselor, lets you stay aware of your health condition or away from illness. The included software also allows you keep a record of the past with pictures of your irises. The device is also great one for iridologists as the included software can help keep track of a record of the images of their clients, which can be printed for further analysis or review or used for tracking health progress.

Buy online, $120.70, Uxsight

The BloodBot consists only an arm with a needle and a probe. This robot probes around your arm until it finds an area of flesh that is less squishy than the rest, and it’ll then jab you with a needle. Unfortunately, this robot has only 78% of accuracy, which would mean it could do something very wrong when it’s inaccurate. Apparently, only brave souls are willing to hand the destiny of their arms to this robot.

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Those who live in tropical countries will always get mosquito bites while staying up at nights for some work. Here comes the USB Mosquito Repellent which hooks up to your computer’s USB port for keeping the malaria-causing insects away. If you’ve been working late at nights, you’ll need this gadget, to keep the annoying mosquitoes away and some more killing them.

The little USB Mosquito Repellent emits ultrasonic wave, unlike others which produce smelly odors. The ultrasonic frequency should not have any effect on human. Unless you’re super sensitive type that could sense the ultrasonic frequencies, then it’ll probably make you little dizzy or uncomfortable. The range of the ultrasonic frequency is 1.5 meter, which means you cannot stay too far away from your computer if you wanna be protected.

Buy online, Uxsight, $5.70

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