Sleeping is awesome. Sleeping can also be difficult and ruin your health if you aren’t doing enough of it or if you just aren’t doing it right. But aside from getting an early stroke, how do you know? Sleep issues aren’t easy to diagnose. Now you may have help in the form of a rather ingenuitive smartphone peripheral.
Zeo are making their famous all-in-one sleep clinic available for smartphones. Dubbed Zeo Mobile, this gadget hooks up to your smartphone, and then to your brain, in order to give you up-to-the-second results on how you are sleeping. It does everything except make a Youtube movie of your dreams. Don’t worry, they are working on that.
All you do is wrap the patented headband around your head before you fall asleep, and then let the machine ..read more
Posted in: Armbands, Mobile Phone Integration, Vitals Monitoring, Zeo, iPhone Integration
Sure there are other watches on the market that help you work-out better. But not many work in the exact same way as this one. The Scosche myTrek is a handy-dandy workout watch that monitors your vitals with the best of them.
This Bluetooth-enabled device not only sends your vitals to your iPhone or iPod Touch, it also helps to keep you going by popping inspiring “you can do it” messages in your ears. It’s like having your own personal trainer! Only, a positive one and not one of those mean basic training type dudes. It also features a handy velcro armstrap for those times when holding something is simply a no-g0. The only downside? The myTrek has to be within 33 feet of your iOS device in order to record ..read more
Posted in: Armbands, Scosche, Vitals Monitoring, Watches, iPhone Integration
We’ve all heard of vitals monitors, but what about, um, vittles monitors? According to two Clemson researchers, the time of the monitored vittle has come. Enter their brainchild, the Bite Counter.
The Bite Counter does exactly what the name implies: It counts your bites. You wear it as if it was a watch and the counter keeps track of how many bites of delicious foodstuffs you are shoving into your gaping maw. Then you stare at the large number and feel great, great shame. The intent is to hopefully harness this shame to create weight loss, or something.
This device may not be for everyone, well specifically it’s not for super skinny people. Still, it could be an interesting new weapon in the battle against obesity. At the very least we can ..read more
Posted in: Armbands, Concept Design, Vitals Monitoring
Laser beams are cool. That much cannot be questioned. You know what’s even cooler, though? Laser beams that emit from your hand. Yeah, that’s some Iron Man junk right there. Well, it’s now a reality. Watch out, though. This hellish beam can make you blinder than a bat.
Patrick Priebe’s hand-worn 1,000 milliwatt laser is a unique entity. He used a two millimeter sheet of brass cut into a C-shape to fit into his hand, a Casio projector laser diode and lithium batteries. The laser can stay powered continuously for three whole minutes. Oh yeah, also, if it hits your eyes you just may go blind. Yowza.
No word on when these will hit store shelves, heralding a laser-borne apocalypse. We can’t wait!
Posted in: Armbands, Concept Design
The world of robotics has done some amazing things throughout the years. You know what it hasn’t done, though? Created a super-cool and realistic-smelling robotic armpit! Well, hang on to your gross-ass hats people. The future is upon us.
Kevin Grennan and researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have designed this bad boy with one function in mind, to mimic the smell of an actual armpit. Why on earth would anyone want to do that? The notion is that it can sense different smells, eventually, as well. The idea is to eventually be able to place it on a bomb-sniffing dog and have it work in conjunction with the dog to sniff the kind of fear that comes from a perspiring armpit.
The whole thing works by releasing a chemical called androstadienone, ..read more
Posted in: Armbands, Concept Design
Sure, there is some cool tech that wraps around your arm, but what about the lowly finger? This Ring Mouse by Genius does just that, finally making a wearable mouse you prop around your finger. It’s like you are getting engaged to your computer.
Word on the street is the mouse works great and is actually comfortable. This could be perfect for people who just wanna lay around in bed without being too close to their computers. It could also be perfect for a really dorky James Bond type.
The peripheral is available now for $70. Be warned, it currently only works for PCs. Sorry Macheads, you’ll just have to keep your fingers bare this go around.
Posted in: Armbands, Genius, Wearable Computing
Need any more proof that Nike+ is cool? The GPS data pulled from your Nike+ SportWatch system has now been turned into art. Interactive media collective YesYesNo are to blame for the artistic hoo-hawing. The collective pulled data straight from Nike’s servers and began collating them into patterns.
Best of all? The art is individualized. You see, the collective did one runner at a time. They pulled all of their data, distance, speed, where they went etc. Then they transformed the data into an image like the one shown above. Each user of the system has their own unique art.
The collective is far from commercialization, but it’s a still a cool concept that could reap dividends for them down the line. I’d buy a poster of mine, anyways. Although I have ..read more
Posted in: Armbands, GPS, Nike, Watches
The Eurotech Zypad WL150 may look like some 1990s vision of a tablet, but that doesn’t mean it’s not cool. It’s a computer you wear on your arm. This thing is perfect for the medical field, among other uses. Plus it has kind of a retro Star Trek look which is always nice
The WL150 features a 3.5 inch QVGA resistive display, a Marvell PXA320 processor, a paltry 128MB of flash storage, 3G connectivity, WiFi and Bluetooth. The OS of choice is Windows CE 6.0. Now, you may have realized by now that this doesn’t have far reaching consumer implications. However, it is being marketing to a variety of industries, including the medical and law enforcement fields.
It will be formally released later in the year. The price has not been disclosed.
Posted in: Armbands, Bluetooth, Display, Eurotech, Wearable Computing, WiFi Detection
Help! We are being invaded by Steampunk style! The trend continues with this useful, albeit pricey, set of USB-enable cufflinks. They are beautiful and useful. Oh brother. Where do I sign up?
These fancy cufflinks feature 8GB of flash memory, which is accessible by breaking it open and removing the drive. Basically, these are the cufflinks James Bond would wear if he were a bit more of a geek. As it stands, his cufflinks would probably shoot out poison darts or something.
They are available now for the reasonable high price of $225. That certainly is hefty for 8GB of flash storage but think of the children!
Posted in: Armbands, Wearable Tech
Sure, there are similar products on the market, but the HEX iPod Nano watch band kicks up the functionality up a few notches. This product lets you use your brand new iPod Nano as a watch AND allows cross functionality with Nike+.
Basically, it’s a stylish watch band that has a port for a Nano and a Nike+ attachment. Nothing too fancy, but highly useful. The unit will be released in April 2011, so be on the lookout. No price has been announced yet but one would imagine it wouldn’t be too outlandish.
Posted in: Armbands, Watches, iPod Integration
