Category: Health
Ionic Ashtray – something to make smokers think that they and their property don't stink
I’m not sure how many people allow smoking in their houses these days. I rather feel like since the smoking ban came in that lighting up indoors has all the social grace of curling one off on someone’s coffee table, but then I don’t smoke.
If I did, I’d probably consider investing in the Ionic Ashtray which is essentially an ashtray holder with a mini extractor fan of sorts…
Giving the blind a look-in.. Meet the Samsung Touch Sight Camera
Among the many winners announced at the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), the Samung ‘Touch Sight’ Camera clearly stands out as a winner of note.
A class bit of design genius from the tech-bods at Samsung, the ‘Touch Sight’ deservedly won the Gold Medal in their Communication Tools (concept) category, and in my opinion, now deserves every bit of free publicity it can get. So, i’m happily doing exactly that.
Designed specifically for those with impaired vision, the revolutionary camera allows it’s user to take ‘pictures’ of whatever they like, and like a sort of blind-man’s polaroid, it immediately displays the image, not on an LCD screen, but on a raised Braille display sheet on the back of the camera.
A bitter pill to swallow: Scientists give mice effort-free exercise
Lazy bastards and fatties rejoice – scientists in California have gone and created a pill that does all the hard work of exercise for you, helping you lose weight AND get fitter. Great news, yeah? Well, no.. Because before you get all excited and go mad ordering an extra large stuff-crust pizza in celebration – you should probably note that the pill only works on mice.
Like horror films? Well, make one at home, with the Wi-Fi Inter-Oral Dental Camera.
Remember the scene in the film Marathon Man where Laurence Olivier’s Nazi dentist ‘mines for gold’ in Dustin Hoffman’s non-anetheatised mouth? Well I do. I still get the sweats just thinking about it. In fact, i’ve been a confirmed odontophobe ever since my own Nazi dentist decided it was a jolly wheeze to rip out four of my teeth, then cement sharp metal braces to the rest.
Which is why i greet the new Wi-Fi Inter-Oral Dental Camera like the piece of hellish equipment it absolutely is. The company blurb says that it’s a great new ‘scientific tool’ for peering in your pie-hole, with ‘a high 1.3 mega-pixel camera lens’ at the end of the probe which allows you to get really up-close-and-personal on your lovely little toothy-pegs. Or for that matter: any other cavity you’re curious to search. The mind boggles.
PEAK PlasmaBlade scalpel given the green light in the US – sick bucket at the ready
I’m only putting a picture of what looks like a perfectly friendly medical gadget here, known as the PEAK PlasmaBlade, but if you really want to see what it’s all about, take a look at the video after the jump.
On the safe side of the page, I’ll use words to tell you how it works. Unlike other electrosurgery tools, the PlasmaBlade functions at low temperatures with pulses of plasma energy…
Spray on condoms turn your todger turquoise
Since Charles Goodyear invented the rubber vulcanization process, condoms haven’t seen much in the way of product development, apart from a couple of material changes, since the first rubbers were manufactured in 1855. Arguably, the John Thomas hasn’t exactly seen much of its share of design changes in that time either, so perhaps male contraceptives aren’t in great need of a makeover either. However, one German scientist thinks differently.
Canadian "Robot Doctor" is little more than a glorified webcam on wheels
EXPOSED! Some Canadian doctor who works out of Nova Scotia, has, so he says, been treating patients via a sensational “Robot Doctor” that helps him listen to his patients.
So what does this “Robot Doctor” actually do? It allows Dr Ivar Mendez to indulge in “real time” video communication with patients! Just like a £4.99 webcam. It also allows “real time” voice communication with patients! Just like a telephone. Or a Skype account. It’s basically a PC case mod…
Voice Thermostat: just what every child wants for Xmas – a talking thermometer
You may laugh at the idea of a talking thermometer – largely because it’s funny – but that doesn’t stop it being an entirely average and unnecessary invention. And just because it’s all of those things, it doesn’t mean that the Voice Thermostat isn’t quite fun.
So, you’re lying at home feeling rough. Who wants the discomfort of putting the bulky old glass thermometer bulb under your tongue for a minute when your mouth’s all sore and swollen? All you need to do now is jam this thing against your forehead for just 1.5 seconds…
Spray-on skin gun: fill up your wounds with stem cells
Just opened up a gash in your arm the size of the Grand Canyon? No bother, just fill it up with stem cells, sprayed on with this skin gun, and you’ll feel right as rain in the morning…
Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 all "hazardous" and laced with DEADLY TOXINS
The leaf-strokers and mushroom-worriers at Greenpeace have released another of their NAME AND SHAME press releases, this time focussing on the top three video game consoles.
Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 are all RAMMED with DEADLY CHEMICALS that are POISONOUS and BAD FOR YOU, according to the report, which points out that safe alternatives are available.
Xbox 360 seems to come off worse – it contains a “phthalate” (a chemical used to make plastics) called DiNP which is already banned from being used in toys for kids in the EU…
