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relaxView video glasses best for spa relaxation

Most spa resorts have TV displays, as they’re all meant for you to watch some interesting and exciting movies so you can get your mind away from your stressful daily thoughts or worries.

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RENASYS GO – a portable Negative pressure wound therapy device

Smith & Nephew has released RENASYS GO, a portable NPWT (Negative pressure wound therapy) device which is best used people who’re always on the run. The device comes in a small form factor, like an egg-shaped MP3 player which can be worn around the neck.

Of course, the RENASYS GO does not playback your tunes, it only sucks at your gross wound. It should be a pretty handy device for some diabetic sufferers who need to be on the run for some unknown reasons. So this portable device is best used to suck at those diabetic ulcers. It may be handy for athletes or martial art trainees who might always injure themselves during practice, making them carrying certain wounds on their body. More on the press release below:

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RainCloud dehumidifier – generates drinking water from surrounding air

If you live in an area where drinking water is always short, then there is a need to extract some water from the humid of the air, and convert it into drinking water. Here comes the RainCloud de-humidifier which is a handy machine for extracting drinking water for you from the room air and saving you from dying in thirst.

The RainCloud C-15 dehumidifier fits on any desks, is integrated with a water-purification system that purifies the water extracted from the surrounding air. It’s got a fan that is responsible for sucking in the air, and water is then extracted, piped into a series of ultra-fine filters and at the final stage, a UV bug zapper is to keep all the germs that may be contained in the water.

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Magic Mirror for body builders, checking muscular spots made easy

If you’ve been frequenting the gym or doing lots of exercise lately, you will definitely wanna see the results i.e. whether those muscles have already started growing on your arms, legs, chest, shoulders etc.

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HIMS Brain HUBI biofeedback device relaxes your mind, makes you brainier from your fingertips

HIMS Brain HUBI biofeedback device is an interesting gadget that has arrived in Korea, which works like a brain trainer. The device provides biofeedback ports for your fingertips and connects to your computer on one end for training your brain.

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Robot nurse to deliver medication

Robots have been used extensively in hospitals or any therapy centers to assist patients. In Japan, robot is now to replace human to work as a nurse to deliver medication to the patients. This could hint that eventually human will lose their job of working as a nurse. (In certain countries, nurse is a pretty high-paying job).

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NANO BREATH cell phone checks breath for diseases

Bad gases such as CO2, NOx and ammonia (NH3) will come out of your mouth, if you’re one who carries some diseases. If you’re a health-conscious geek, you may like the idea of having a cellphone to check your breath for diseases as well as checking others’ breath before the diseases transmitted to you.

Applied Nanodetectors Ltd. (AND) is currently working on a prototype of a cell phone that can detect bad gases and from that on it can tell whether you’re a carrier of any diseases.

This cell phone simply checks the breath of the users to detect those gases. The phone has a chip that is integrated with various sensors that are sensitive enough to detect bad gases in the bad breath. It just takes minutes for the cell phone to trace the mentioned gases.

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Robot-assisted Therapy helps long-term stroke sufferers regain mobility

Here comes the good news for long-term stroke sufferers who have lost their mobility and stayed in a bed/wheelchair for several years. University of California at Irvine has carried a study of using robot-assisted therapy to help stroke victims to regain their mobility.

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Flex insulin pump – better diabetes management solution

It’s another solution for active diabetes sufferers to overcome diabetes. The Flex Insulin Pump was designed by Ellaluna Taylor, which acts as a “unique prosthetic skin” that is supposed to be worn under clothing.

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Snip Doctor – a handheld device to predict patients’ negative response to medication

Some patients have negative response to medication. In the past, there was no easy way to test out if a patient has any adverse reactions to prescribed medication. NHS has reportedly spent £460 million to treat 250,000 patients who are admitted to hospital due to adverse reactions to prescribed drugs.

Thanks to Imperial College London, they’ve successfully developed a handheld device that makes use of the analysis of genetical information, DNA, to predict if a patient would have any adverse reactions to any drugs to be prescribed.

The handheld device is called Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Doctor or SNP Dr in short and can be pronounced “snip doctor”. The device is able to identify the presence of specific DNA sequences in a patient’s genome, which might be the cause of any adverse reactions to certain medications.

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