Philips Blood Pressure-Sensing Underpants

Blood pressure is not hard to measure, but the necessary equipment for clinically accurate measurements – a cuff, a pump, and stethoscope or electronics – is bulky and heavy.

Philips, the electronics giant has recently filed a patent for blood-pressure sensing underpants which can be calibrated to give accurate readings whenever they are worn. The technology makes use of “pulse wave velocity” - pulse waves generated when the heart pumps which then moves through the blood circulatory system. The researchers have found pulse wave speeds correlate to blood pressure.

Flexing with the Xtensor between gaming sessions will make your reaction-times much quicker, and will mean no cramping hands after all-night fragging sessions.

The Xtensor is the only product on the market to perform with true biomechanical correctness, able to stimulate muscles and tendons in the hands, wrists and elbows that have been virtually off limits to all other devices.

Relax, heal, rejuvenate, detoxify and oxygenate! The SOQI Spa Bed does all these things for you. Whether in perfect health or dealing with minor to severe ailments, the SOQI Bed (SO means Solar, QI means Life Force Energy) is for everyone in all walks of life and settings.

technology into fashion and clothing. The latest addition is the Vital Jacket by Biodevices, an intelligent wearable garment that continuously monitors electrocardiogram (ECG) wave and Heart Rate.

Such bio-monitoring clothing is allows freedom of movement for patients who need constant monitoring and data collection. Another market for such technology is high performance sports and fitness enthusiasts who want to flexibly log their vitals during workouts.

The Vital Jacket® is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with microelectronics. It was designed and developed to be a usable pragmatic approach for different clinical and normal life scenarios, in hospitals, home or on the move, that need continuous or frequent high quality vital signs monitoring from the patient or healthy subject. The concept was designed and specified based on the long tradition on biomedical instrumentation and telemedicine of the IEETA institute of the University of Aveiro, Portugal (www.ieeta.pt/sias). This R&D non-profitable organization further developed all the microelectronics, informatics and communications.

While the Smoking Gun reminds you of the health risks associated with your habit, it also asks the question, do you care? About a quarter of Americans smoke. That message on your pack of cigarettes which says, “Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health,” does little more than point out the obvious.

For the die-hard smoker, this accessory will underscore just how bad-ass you are.

Fig.: to change working posture keeps healthy, and motivated (without expensive, complicated mechanics)

Henning Kunow has designed the Lindo Hip Office which allows users to sit, stand, and walk while doing typical office activities.

cool bags and hot bags in proper medical style! they look like proper medical plasma bags off of er! perfect if you need a little tlc to help you recover form a big night out or a simple pulled muscle! but don’t hook them up to an iv, instead apply the packs directly to the pain to soothe away your troubles! available as dr cool bag (blue - chill in the fridge) and dr hot bag (red – press button to activate and recharge for re-use in boiling water).

ARANZ Medical SilhouetteMobile is an integral member of the ARANZ Medical Silhouette product suite.

SilhouetteMobile is an innovative portable computer device with custom camera and software that easily allows a medical professional to capture information about a wound at the point-of-care. This information is analysed, managed and stored in a database on the device. Information captured includes:

* photographic images
* quantitative measures
* other user-entered wound assessment data.
SilhouetteMobile improves workflow in wound assessment allowing a user to quickly image and analyse a wound with a portable non-contact device. Reports are generated remotely for review, printing or electronic distribution.
All data is obtained with no patient contact. SilhouetteMobile then builds that information into an electronic patient record for printing, electronic distribution, and archiving. And because, inevitably, the clinician is pressed for time, most of this process is automated.

This health conscious phone enables users to track their health through nutrition and fitness. Other users of this phone with similar goals (lose weight or run a 5k) networks together to motivate, and hold the others accountable for their workout sessions.

If you feel comfortable working in reclining position just like your dentist makes you sit to get a proper view of your dental set-up then the G-Tech Neber chair is an option for you. And, it not just looks like a Dentist chair but it actually is a part computer table and a part dentist’s chair (so we struck this absurd comparison).