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Ever wanted to take a bath while wearing your electrocardiograph? Or did you ever just want to see how your body reacts to taking the plunge into a tub of cold pudding? Or do you really not care and are reading this instead of doing end-of-year reports? Well, you’re in luck! Fukuda Denshi Co. in … Continued
There comes a time where you must sanitize some things. Sure, I’ve dropped my toothbrush in the toilet after Mexican night, but did that stop me from using it? Of course not. But when I walked in and saw the rapidly-growing fungus on it three weeks later, I decided that instead of buying a new … Continued
We know that you all have Xbox on the mind, but this is not the rumored Master Chief lawsuit stemming from that Whitesnake concert “free breast exam” incident back in ’82. This is actually the Halo breast papanicolaou (pap) testing system developed by NeoMatrix, LLC. It uses suction devices to extract nipple aspirate fluid from … Continued
This one goes out to all of the cubicle warriors out there right now. Day in and day out you are forced to sit and stare at a monitor doing the same thing every day. Well those monitors the company supplied you with aren t exactly working out best towards your health. There is a … Continued
Savacor Inc. is betting that you have congestive heart failure and that you want to be able to keep control of it digitally. So they bought up every last Handspring Visor from the junkyard they could find and slapped their software onto them. The result is the HeartPOD, a system designed to help monitor the … Continued
I love NASA. Space travel++. So they invented a skin that helps robots stay out of the way of humans. Good. So they show it off by playing music from Behind the Green Door and having some woman dance around it in tights. Oh, and the robot they used looks like a penis. So we’re … Continued
I don’t know about you, but the planet Mars fascinates me greatly. All those crazy raves and space parties with aliens always look so fun. Plus Val Kilmer went there so it’s gotta be good, right? Well MIT agrees and has developed the Bio-Suit, a suit for exploring the surface of mars and other planets. … Continued
Puke Cycle is more like it. This device is designed to create gravity-like resistance for exercising in space. As anyone who has spent time in the inky blackness of the cosmos or has TiVo will tell you, the muscles of the body atrophy when not met with regular resistance. The Space Cycle will spin around, … Continued
We covered these lads a few weeks back and they’ve finally launched the Space line of LED watches. These new pieces have a much more bulbous look and are clad in stainless steel. Priced at about $90, they’re available for pre-order. I have the gunmetal version and wear it quite a bit. It’s a good … Continued
I used to have this crazy Russian lamp celebrating Sputnik or something that was very sharp and pointy and excellent for kids to play around, I’m sure. This rocket lamp is much more acceptable, with no sharp points and nothing that could suggest the psychosexual nature of 1960s space flight to an impressionable young boy. … Continued