WakeMate, an application and wristband for use with your phone, tracks your nightly sleeping patterns, and recommends a perfect time for you to wake up depending on how your body’s sleep cycle.
You simply snap the wristband on before you go to bed, tell your phone (iPhone, Blackberry, Android and others) the latest time you’d like to wake up, and the WakeMate application will set off your alarm someone within 20 minutes before that latest time.
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Ok, this makes me wish I played golf, just so that I could use this straight-out-of-a-movie golfing glove gadget. The SensoGlove has a bunch of sensors built into it that constantly tracks the pressure of your club grip. It provides feedback of every point in your swing via the built-in LCD screen.
It also has audio feedback that warns you at the moment your grip becomes too tight. I’ll be preaching to the golfers reading this, but maintaining a light grip is crucial to a good swing, precision and even better distance.
The SensoGlove comes in right-handed and left-handed models and the computer/screen on the back can be moved over to a new glove when it becomes worn. Too cool.
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Price: $90
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The UniPride Carepeutic Fingertip Pulse Oximeter Pro is the first FDA Approved Pocket Size Fingertip Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Oxygen Monitor with Plethysmogram Graphic Display. According to statistics from the World Health Organization there are currently millions of people in the world susceptible to dying from a heart attack due to poor lifestyle habits, heavy working stress, unhealthy diet, etc…
Using the AccuHealth Fingertip Pulse Oximeter Pro you can monitor your heart rate and blood pressure oxygen anywhere and any time allowing you to take charge of your health. The device requires only 2AAA batteries and weighs only .2 ounces so you can take it everywhere.
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Price: $99.94
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In time for Father’s Day, you can order this rechargeable patio lantern to provide up to 16 hours of light without requiring proximity to an electrical outlet while dad sits on the back porch with a beer in one hand and a cigar in the other.
The lantern’s high-powered LED casts 160 lumens of crisp white light or subtle accent light, and its cylindrical design provides 360º of unimpeded illumination. Simply tapping the top of the lantern turns it on and decreases the brightness to three different levels. The lantern recharges in six hours via the AC charging base and provides up to six hours of light on highest setting. Its sealed polycarbonate housing keeps out rain, wind, and dirt, and the integrated handle enables ease of portability.
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Price: $99.95
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Grow your own beer garden using this kit from ThinkGeek that easily grows hops, barley and wheat for brewing your perfect mug of beer.
Homebrewing is all the craze as more and more folks create their own beer. This kit takes homebrewing to the extreme by helping you grow your own ingredients to homebrew.
You will find it fun, rewarding, and tasty to grow your own beer making plants. With the Grow Your Own Beer Garden kit, the plants sprout and grow quickly and easily. You’ll get the magic three: hops – the flavoring and stability agent of beer; barley – integral in making beer and able to regulate blood sugar levels for up to ten hours after consumption; and wheat – used to aid in fermentation and is the second most produced food in the world. All three of these plants fuse together to make great beer!
By the way, this kit is rated for ages 4 and up! While I’m sure the manufacturer meant this for the growing part, I found this funny nonetheless.
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Price: $24.99
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Tired of scooping all of your stuff every time you change stations at the gym or head to the watercooler? Afraid of leaving it in a locker? Yeah, me too. Quirky has come up with a solution – the Fit Kit.
Fit Kit holds a bunch of stuff like your phone and/or MP3 player, keys, cards, headphones and its neoprene strap self-adheres to wrap around your arm, your leg, your water bottle or whatever.
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Price: $25
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Priced around $100, the Oasis solar-powered lantern includes solar panels that can be folded open on the top of the lamp. After fully charging the lantern, the lantern can run for a full day (or night) on low brightness or for 12 hours on high. There are options to use an AC adapter or battery in case the sun does not shine.
The lantern includes a long lasting and cool burning LED light source, emergency flashing mode, stainless steel construction and even a remote control so you don’t have to get out of your sleeping bad to turn the lantern off.
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Price: $99.99
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If you live in Portland, OR, and want to improve your carbon footprint while getting/staying in shape, then take a look at The Green Microgym. In a nutshell, Green Microgym (TGM) offers an environmentally-conscious gym experience.
The actual neat details include the fact that the exercise machines are hooked up to the building’s energy grid, and your workouts actually help to power the lights and other electricity needs. TGM estimates that their carbon footprint is less than half if they were run as a regular gym.
Another nice benefit is that for every hour you workout, you get a $1 credit towards their store. Workout for 10 hours and you get a 50% off coupon at a local adidas store.
They’re franchising, so you can grab your own TGM for your town.
Hi-tech sports medicine is becoming cheaper by the day and finding its way into more and more homes of weekend warriors and folks who just want to have more control of their health.
Take the pulse oximeter for example. Stick your finger in it and it can measure oxygen saturation in your blood and of course your heart rate.
This particular model, the GO2 Achieve comes in an attractive sandstone orange color and is made by Nonin who claim to have invented fingertip pulse oximetry.
If you don’t like this one, there are surprisingly lots of other models to choose from.
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Price: $99.99
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UK company RSLSteeper, maker of prosthetic, orthotic and assistive technology products has what looks like an amazing fully articulated prosthetic hand called the BeBionic. You have to watch the video on the BeBionic site.
Tell me this doesn’t remind you of Luke’s new artificial hand in Star Wars: ESB!
