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karada trainer headphones: portable pesterer for pedestrians

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These Karada Trainer Headphones literally dictate the pace that you should take while you’re exercising, based on your “age, weight, and intensity level (walking, jogging, or aerobics)” as well as your resting heart rate, which you can measure using the headphones’ built-in sensor. During the course of your exercise, a voice will prompt you to…

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August 5th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: audio gadgets interactive mobile tech strange + wonderful technology

bodytrace’s escale wants to set up a social networking site for weight watchers

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Some say that the best motivation is the fear of humiliation. Want to graduate at the top of your batch? Tell everyone you know! Supposedly this will make you work extra hard, because you already gave your word, and failure will only give the people around you the license to point out how much of…

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July 21st, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: gadgets interactive strange + wonderful technology

zeo personal sleep coach: helping rich people sleep better

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Zeo Inc.’s Personal Sleep Coach system consists of a headband, an alarm clock/bedside display, and personal coaching sessions. All of these are designed to help their clients sleep better, smug in the knowledge that they’re rich enough to afford a personal sleep coach.

The headband supposedly measures brainwave activity and sends the data it gathers…

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June 15th, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: gadgets strange + wonderful technology

experiment reveals gray hair means damaged dna – so baldness means lack of dna?

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Can mental or emotional stress damage our DNA? An experiment has shown that the presence of gray hair means that the melanocyte stem cells in hair follicles – that ones that become melanocytes that give color to hair -  have badly damaged DNA. In response, our body forces these DNA damaged stem cells into early…

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June 12th, 2009 comments (5) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: strange + wonderful weird science

more bugs from microsoft: bill gates releases mosquitoes at ted 2009 conference

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If you were campaigning to put an end to violence, would you threaten to beat up your audience to drive home that “violence = badong”?  No? That’s because you’re not a genius. From now on let such sublime logic be known as WWBGD – What Would Bill Gates Do? Microsoft’s chairman was at the TED…

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February 5th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: just plain fun strange + wonderful

technabob quickpix: when a picture is worth 1000 words

pac-man pain assessment chart: maybe you’d feel better if you ate some cherries and pretzels?

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Pac-Man pain assessment gauge, spotted on Flickr. Currently, I feel a little Woopop myself.

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February 3rd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: quickpix retro video games

buzz zzz: vibrating pillows

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We’ve already featured a pillow that can wake you up using light and an alarm clock that has a vibrate option. Here’s a quirky yet functional combination of the two: Vessel’s vibrating alarm clock pillow.

Just set the time on the pillow’s built-in clock and it will wake you – and only you – with…

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January 1st, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: gadgets technology timepieces

wii fit price and release date revealed [updated]

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For those of you who just can’t wait to start getting in shape with your Nintendo, it looks like the exercise “game” Wii Fit now has a price an release date.

Gamestop is now listing a pre-order release date of January 1, 2008, along with a $69.99 retail price, including the required Balance Board peripheral.…

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August 6th, 2007 comments (7) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: home entertainment video games

wii fit: lose weight while gaming

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Nintendo today revealed Wii Fit, a new “game” for the Wii that’s all about fitness. What’s interesting about this is the new controller that ships with the game.

The small, flat controller, called the “Wii Balance Board,” lays on the ground and detects your body movements as you exercise. It can also measure your body…

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July 11th, 2007 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: home entertainment video games

wii weights: get a real workout while playing

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If you’ve played the Nintendo Wii for any reasonable amount of time, you know that you can actually work up a pretty decent sweat while playing some games. Now you can really get a workout by adding these Wii Weights to your wrists.

These Wii wrist weights feature adjustable inserts, ranging from 1lb. to 4lbs.…

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February 8th, 2007 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: strange + wonderful video games

usb gadget reminds you to watch your posture

Visomate USB Posture Monitor

If you have a tendency to slouch when working at your computer like I sometimes do, you might want to think about this little gadget that’s been around in Hong Kong for a while, but just now hitting our shore thanks to Chinese gadget exporter, Brando.

The Visomate is a little LED device that plugs…

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January 26th, 2007 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing gadgets

soda claims to aid calorie burning

This new soft drink from Coca-Cola and Nestl

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October 13th, 2006 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: future tech