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Handheld Body Fat Analyzers

Gizmo of the Day, Portable, Sports, Health & Fitness, Outdoors / By Khalid Hosein / October 10, 2009

This gadget just smacks of ‘Made in China on a “3rd shift”‘! For just $10, this handheld device measures your body fat percentage, and is also a clock and an alarm clock. Ha! It can also stores 8 different sets of data. What’s scary is that it can apparently measure from 5 to 50%. Can you imagine having a 50% body fat %?

On the other hand, this body fat analyzer by Hivox looks more legit. Of course, so is the price ($67). It also remembers 8 different profiles and shows you graphical versions of body fat types.

Buy now!
Price: Body Fat Meter: $9.99; Hivox Body Fat Analyzer: $67
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

UK police could be using remote weapons scanner in a few years

Miscellaneous / By Khalid Hosein / July 6, 2009

Here is some more movie-magic made real by today’s science. UK University researchers funded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and supported by London’s Metropolitan Police have come up with a weapons scanner that picks up concealed guns & knives without needing to be close to the subject.

The scanner works using electromagnetic waves and neural net technology to determine whether it’s a weapon or some other non-dangerous object. It also does not produce an image of the subject’s body.

The scanner could be put into use as soon as the next 2 years.

Press release.