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FitBit is Clip-On Wireless Excercise-Tracker, Monitors Your Sleep Too

The FitBit’s just been unveiled at the TechCrunch 50 event, and it’s an interesting gizmo: it’s designed to clip to your clothing where it tracks your exercise activity, a bit like Nike+. But unlike the iPod/Nike combo, it wirelessly connects to its charger/basestation which sends data to an online database that tracks your performance. And…

Health Kit Eaton

Question of the Day: Do You Listen to an MP3 Player While Working Out?

The news about new iPods coming out on September 9th combined with observations during my daily visits to the gym have got me wondering about how many of you use an MP3 player while working out. Based on these observations alone, it seems that somewhere around 40 to 50% percent of gym goers rely on…

Health Sean Fallon

Bloomberg News Accidentally Publishes Draft of Steve Jobs’s Obituary

Note to Bloomberg News employees: when you’re in the system updating your draft of Steve Jobs’s obituary, do NOT press publish. That, though, is exactly what happened late last night, as sleuthed by our buddies over at Gawker. Now, pre-writing obits for prominent figures such as the Steve, in good health and in bad, is…

Health John Mahoney

World’s Smallest Blood Glucose Meter Gets FDA Approved: True2Go

Testing your blood glucose levels if you’re a diabetes sufferer may not mean hauling around largeish devices now that the True2Go from Home Diagnostics has won FDA approval. It’s the world’s smallest, “about the size of a quarter”… it’s just about the same size as an iPod shuffle. It’s small enough to twist “on to…

Health Kit Eaton

Condom Dispensing “Don’t Panic” Button For Emergencies

Everyone loves a good panic button, and what bigger emergency is there than being condomless when you find a woman that actually wants to have sex with you? Relax, this condom dispensing “Don’t Panic” button has your back. Well, it would if it actually existed. Unfortunately, it is currently in the concept phase. [Designspotter]

Health Sean Fallon

iPosture Will De-Quasimodo Your Sorry Self

It’s probably too late to remedy our self-induced scoliosis, but the iPosture looks promising all the same. It’s a 1-inch button that can attach to a variety of garments (like a bra strap or even a necklace) and vibrates when your posture succumbs to the heavy weight of gravity/your underwhelming life. Then you pull back…

Health Mark Wilson

Smart Contacts Will Detect Glaucoma Before It Blinds You

Researchers at UC Davis have designed contact lenses that can give you an in-eye checkup to make sure there’s nothing wrong, as well as dispense medication automatically when needed. The “smart” lenses use an organic polymer called PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane, if you’re nasty) that detects eye pressure and sends that data to a computer-important updates to…

Health Elaine Chow

New Flexible Image Sensors Could Enable Eyeball-Cams, More Realisitc Cyborgs

Traditional camera lenses have to have beefier optics to make up for the fact that the sensor is flat-but one reason why the human eye is such an efficient little cam at (576 megapixels! ISO 800!) is because our image sensors (err, retinas) are rounder to better capture the light transmitted by the lens on…

Health John Mahoney

Aespironics Drug Inhaler Should Fit in Wallet, Be Cheap, Effective

An Israeli company, Aespironics, is trying a new approach in re-designing an old faithful drug delivery system: the inhaler. They’ve teamed up with an expert in drug atomization and a wind turbine researcher, and have come up with a breath-activated, turbine-assisted design that should be slim, cheap and easy to produce, and deliver dry drugs…

Health Kit Eaton

Dumbell Shaped Sports Bottle Gives You a Thirst Quenching Workout

I don’t know how much of a workout you are going to get with some rinky-dink 1-pound weights, but I like the idea behind this Dumbell Sports Bottle design. Not only would a bottle weight serve as a constant reminder about proper hydration, it would also encourage recycling. Plus, if you were to drink from…

Health Sean Fallon

Steve Jobs Says He Doesn’t Have Cancer (And Why It’s Not Your Business Anyway)

NYT’s Joe Nocera-one of the reporters who speculated on the health of Apple’s CEO after WWDC-got a call from Steve Jobs himself. It wasn’t pretty from the very beginning: “This is Steve Jobs. You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most…

Health Jesus Diaz

Peak’s Plasmablade is Sci-Fi-like Surgical Tool of the Future

Cutting open a person for surgery using a plain old scalpel seems pretty barbarian compared to this new cutting tool from Peak. Instead of a sharp metal edge, or even an electrosurgical cutter, the Plasmablade uses pulses of plasma generated around its tip to locally cut and cauterize flesh such as skin, fat and muscle.…

Health Kit Eaton

HealthMap Gives Lowdown on Disease Outbreaks, Could Save Lives

Scientists are using the power of the web to track and find real disease outbreaks. Every hour, HealthMap, an infectious disease-tracking website, feeds off of news, public health list serves, and the World Health Organization‘s online pages to survey the spread of infections. With help from Google, the program has identified 95 percent of all…

Health Elaine Chow

Spray on Skin Gun Shoots Stem Cells To Heal Your Open Wounds

Because of its use of stem cells, a skin regenerating gun would certainly cause a stir among conservative types-but if you were caught out on a battlefield with a gaping wound, you would be begging for technology like this. That is why the Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine invested $250 million in a project…

Health Sean Fallon

Unicycle Transport Vehicle: Like a Segway, Only Lamer and Sweatier

This unicycle transport vehicle by designer Regimantas Vegele is tailor made for an unique breed of individual-the kind of person that cares about looking good, but does not care about looking foolish. Essentially, the device would take the concept of an elliptical trainer and turn it into an actual moving vehicle. So traveling would involve…

Health Sean Fallon

CPR Pad Makes Resuscitation as Easy as ABC

This concept is a gizmo which you’d have in a first aid kit to help you if someone collapses and needs CPR. You’d whack it on the chest of the ill person, line it up and follow its instructions. It flashes to give you proper timing, and clicks to let you know you’re using the…

Health Kit Eaton

Motorola Patents Biometric and Touch Sensitive Bluetooth Headsets

A series of Motorola patents recently made public reveal that the company has given some thought to incorporating biometric monitors into Bluetooth headsets and adding touch sensitive controls to the ROKR S9. Actually, there are two different versions of the biometric Bluetooth headset, both of which utilize a watch-like device to measure heart rate, temperature…

Health Sean Fallon

Milkscreen System Prevents Party Moms From Getting Their Babies Drunk

Just because you have a baby at home doesn’t mean that your partying days must come to an end. Fortunately, mothers that like to go out on Saturday nights and have a few drinks can prevent passing boob booze onto their kid using a system called Milkscreen. Basically, Milkscreen is a litmus test that screens…

Health Sean Fallon

JORDY Headset Magnifier: Not Quite as Advanced as Star Trek Version

As well as its promisingly sci-fi-sounding name, the Joint Optical Reflective Display is actually designed to help people with vision problems. It’s a head-worn magnifier with autofocus that can provide up to 30x zoom, and is designed to help people with vision loss caused by macular degeneration, glaucoma or other conditions. Plus, its docking station…

Health Kit Eaton

M-Powered System Turns a Lincoln Into the Diabetesmobile

I never thought about this before, but driving around in a car can be especially dangerous for people with severe cases of diabetes. Fortunately for them (and everyone else on the road), a company called Medtronic Diabetes has unveiled its new M-POWERED car-a Lincoln sedan fitted with a system that wirelessly connects a patient’s glucose…

Health Sean Fallon

FitBit is Clip-On Wireless Excercise-Tracker, Monitors Your Sleep Too

Question of the Day: Do You Listen to an MP3 Player While Working Out?

Bloomberg News Accidentally Publishes Draft of Steve Jobs’s Obituary

World’s Smallest Blood Glucose Meter Gets FDA Approved: True2Go

Condom Dispensing “Don’t Panic” Button For Emergencies

iPosture Will De-Quasimodo Your Sorry Self

Smart Contacts Will Detect Glaucoma Before It Blinds You

New Flexible Image Sensors Could Enable Eyeball-Cams, More Realisitc Cyborgs

Aespironics Drug Inhaler Should Fit in Wallet, Be Cheap, Effective

Dumbell Shaped Sports Bottle Gives You a Thirst Quenching Workout

Steve Jobs Says He Doesn’t Have Cancer (And Why It’s Not Your Business Anyway)

Peak’s Plasmablade is Sci-Fi-like Surgical Tool of the Future

HealthMap Gives Lowdown on Disease Outbreaks, Could Save Lives

Spray on Skin Gun Shoots Stem Cells To Heal Your Open Wounds

Unicycle Transport Vehicle: Like a Segway, Only Lamer and Sweatier

CPR Pad Makes Resuscitation as Easy as ABC

Motorola Patents Biometric and Touch Sensitive Bluetooth Headsets

Milkscreen System Prevents Party Moms From Getting Their Babies Drunk

JORDY Headset Magnifier: Not Quite as Advanced as Star Trek Version

M-Powered System Turns a Lincoln Into the Diabetesmobile

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

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Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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