Cellphones will have radiation level label displayed next to price tag

Cellphone radiation level is not a joke. San Francisco Department of the Environment takes it pretty seriously, considering to have the radiation level displayed next to the price tag of a phone, starting as soon as next month.

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Sleep Aid iPhone app analyzes snoring

If you’re a heavy snorer, the most suffering should be your partner as he or she will not get good sleep every night due to the “heavy engine sounds” from you that stop them from getting good sleep.

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Portable wellness tracker

Health-conscious geeks are always interested in monitoring their own health every single minute. Here comes a portable wellness tracker that comes in the size of a USB flash drive that can clip to your belt, which you can use to track your daily activities and sleep cycles.

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Oticon ConnectLine system streams audio for the hearing impaired

Those with hearing problems, having to depend on hearing aids are normally unable to enjoy the best audio delivered by today’s fancy gadgets and gizmos. But now with the Oticon ConnectLine system, the hearing impaired can enjoy audio delivered by gadgets as good as what a normal person can do.

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WakeMate pairs with your cellphone to analyze your sleep

It’s somehow important that you wake up at optimal point in order to ensure that you’ve had enough sleep. Or else it’ll be quite a difficult day if you didn’t have enough sleep. There are quite a number gadgets around that help analyze your sleep patterns and from that on they’ll wake you up at the optimal time so you can stay fully awake for the rest of day.

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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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