All the stories tagged with health
EASYWAKEme: the intelligent alarm clock
05/27/2011, If you feel like you’re always not sleeping enough or sleeping too much, you ought to get your sleeping habits checked. As we all know, sleep is vital to our health, and too little (and even too much) of it [...]
Verizon and Medco debut Medco Pharmacy app
05/19/2011, Great news to the nearly 65 million Medco members in America – Verizon and Medco Health Solutions have teamed up to take their first major step into the mobile healthcare arena. The companies have just announced the release of the [...]
Video games can be good for health
05/03/2011, It looks like video games aren’t that bad after all. After hundreds of reports about how video games have a bad influence on society, we finally have reports that they can actually encourage healthy living. Researchers have discovered that video [...]
Reebok Promise Keeper app uses peer pressure to help you stay fit
04/14/2011, Reebok has just launched a new app that attempts to help you stay fit through the power of social networks – and peer pressure. Called The Promise Keeper, you use the app to schedule when you plan to have your [...]
UFC Personal Trainer puts the fit back into video gaming
04/07/2011, If you thought that video games were all designed to keep your butts glued to the couch – well you’re wrong. THQ and Zuffa have announced that they will be expanding the UFC video gaming portfolio over to the Xbox [...]
Solarball uses sunlight to purify water
03/23/2011, Jonathan Liow, a graduate student from Monash University recently came up with an idea to help folks who don’t have access to heaters or kettles the chance to purify water. Called the Solarball, this useful device is makes use of [...]
Wash and Brush timer helps your kids keep clean and healthy
03/09/2011, How often do you have to deal with reminding your kids that brushing for 10 seconds isn’t long enough to get rid of all the germs in their mouth, or that washing their hands for 5 seconds doesn’t help? Well, [...]
GreenGoose turns your life into an RPG for good health
02/28/2011, If you’ve ever wished that your life was a role playing game, you’re going to love this. GreenGoose, a startup from San Francisco recently raised enough money to build its lifestyle tracking platform. Users who make use of this lifestyle [...]
High-tech scanner tells you how healthy you are
02/16/2011, Some folks over at the Charité-University Medicine in Berlin have developed a high-tech scanner that can tell how healthy a person is. All you have to do is point it at your skin, wait three minutes and the device will [...]
Muscle-fatigue sensor lets you know when your body has had enough
02/16/2011, If you’ve always had the problem of training too hard while you’re at the gym, you’ll be glad to know that there’s technology on its way to help you. Mohamed Al-Mulla, a researcher at the Esses University’s School of Computer [...]
Check the health of your scalp with Scaloupe
02/14/2011, Having issues with your scalp or hair can be an embarrassing trip to a hair specialist. Wish you could do it at home by yourself but didn’t know how to? Well, Spec Computer from Japan has come up with a [...]
Electronic cigarettes work better than nicotine patches or gum
02/09/2011, After some new studies published by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, it looks like New York might reconsider its ban on electronic cigarettes. According to the results of the research done, electronic cigarettes had a higher chance of helping [...]
A kitty mask that helps you breathe
02/03/2011, Thanko has come up with a mask that helps you filter the air you breathe while making you look like some crazy cat man or a kid who hasn’t grown out of dressing up. The battery powered kitty face mask [...]
