Multi Alarm Pills Reminder

 

One of the worst things about growing up is that we need to keep constant vigilance on our health. Don’t you miss those days when you could do almost anything to your body and you would bounce back in no time? Well, as we age, the number of pills and vitamins that we ingest increases as well. It comes to a point where it is so difficult to remember when we need to take this certain pill. That is where the Multi Alarm Pills Reminder comes in so handy.

You don’t have to go through the pain of reminding yourself manually of the timing for each pill. Let the Multi Alarm Pills Reminder medical gadget help you with that task. This is a mighty handy container to store your pills in. It allows you four compartments whereby you can place the pills that you need to take. You can also pre-set alarms up to 8 times a day for the different pills in the box. That way you will constantly be reminded of the exact timing for each pill.

You can also set up to 5 different alarm sounds so feel free to play around with the sounds – you can definitely set different ring tones for different pills that you put in the pill box. The Multi Alarm Pills Reminder is also extremely tiny and small enough for you to bring and carry around anywhere. So mobility is not a problem at all. At $6, this is the perfect companion for those who need to take pills regularly.

Available: Amazon

Price: $1.99

Philips Sonicare Airfloss HX8111

 

Dental flossing, the second essential element of a good oral hygiene program after tooth brushing, should be done daily. Dental floss has been shown to be the most effective way to remove bacterial plaque and other debris from otherwise inaccessible areas of the teeth.

Dental floss is available in several forms and should be chosen according to the patients’ manual skills and preferences. Unwaxed floss are often easier to pass through spaces where teeth are close together compared to their waxed counterparts, therefore contribute to more efficient cleaning. However, floss has to be used carefully as highly energetic flossing might cause bleeding gums.

Philips Sonicare Air Floss HX811 might just be the ingenious solution to these unattractive properties of manual dental flossing. This novel device can also be used for inter dental cleaning to compensate for a decline or lack of fine motor skills. In conventional devices similar to this, one of the unsatisfactory features is a lack of clear design philosophy that needs a considerable amount of water in order to effectively perform the cleaning process (as much as 2 gallon!).

The oral hygiene industry is a large and growing portion in the health care sector, hence rapid access to more convenient products helps to fulfill customers’ need before their competitors do is of paramount importance. Although it comes with a hefty price tag of $90, the cost is certainly justified with a consumer-oriented design and functioning. But hey, it’s a free market and consumers can still opt to save on the moolah and stick to conventional flossing!

Available: Amazon

Price: $89.99

iPhone Blood Pressure Monitor

 

Taking care of your blood pressure in these times is definitely a difficult task indeed. After all, how else can you distance yourself from the temptation to indulge in good food (read: ranging from slightly unhealthy to downright life threatening!) all the time. However, what if I told you that there is a way for you to keep track of your blood pressure right in the comfort of your own home? The only requirement where this device is concerned would be that you need to own an iPhone as well.

The iPhone Blood Pressure Monitor works really well. I think it is a good idea because a) most of us already have at least an older version of the iPhone anyway; and b) it means that home health care is now more affordable for a whole lot of us as compared to before this. That is definitely good news for all especially those who are worried about their blood pressure levels. Best of all is that this application is surprisingly easy to use. You don’t need to have a medical degree to learn how to work it!

All you need to do is to get into the application on your iPhone, place it in the dock and connect it to your blood pressure monitor via the arm cuff that comes along with it. It is as simple as that. Your results will be sent to your doctor and he will be in touch if there is anything to be alarmed about. Best of all, you can access your results through your iPhone as well. This is definitely a revolutionary creation where our health is concerned.

[Source: Tuaw]

The 120 Hour Personal Mosquito Repeller

 

Okay, so, everyone hates mosquitoes, unless you’re a frog or a bat. It’s summer time and you’re going to be outdoors often, imagine having a nice barbecue under the starry sky. The thing is, you will be sharing the outdoors with a lot of bugs. If you don’t like to apply bug repelling lotions, this is what you need.

The 120 hour Personal Mosquito Repeller repels mosquitoes, per se. The name give you huge hints on the details. Never mind the long name, what matters is the the function. As the name suggests, the gadget can last for 120 hours. The mosquito repeller doesn’t only repels mosquitoes but other bugs as well. Bugs and mosquitoes won’t be able to get nearer than 15feet radius to you. What’s better is you will become a human magnet, if you know what I mean. Everyone hates donating blood to mosquitoes.

The 120 Hour Personal Mosquito Repeller is about the size of your palm, so you don’t have to carry a vintage radio sized bug killer all over the place. It runs on 2 AA sized batteries. It normally comes with 2 cartridge of Geraniol, which is the ingredient to keep the bugs and mosquitoes at bay. The silent fan is in-charge of sending out the Geraniol. Basically the 120 hour Personal Mosquito Repeller will silently and effectively chase away the bugs without drawing much visual attention to it.

You can say goodbye to those mosquito repellents that smell weird and sometimes feel sticky. Try this useful gadget and the outdoors will be itch free.

Available: Amazon

Price: $19.36

Catra – Diagnose Cataracts with your Smartphone

 

Cataracts comes as one of the symptoms of many major diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension. Hence, early diagnosis tests for these diseases should be carried out by checking if the patient is suffering from a cataract.

MIT’s Media Lab has come up with an ingenious attachment called the Catra that allows individuals to carry out cataract test by using only their smart phones. The technology behind it may be rather simple but it definitely takes lots of tedious calculations and also in depth understanding of optics to produce reliable results.

The wide spread use of the technology is doubtful as many don’t find the need of purchasing an attachment when checkups could be done with the doctor. However, the Catra medical gadget comes within the size of a palm which enables the attachment to be both convenient and easily accessible. Serving as an alternative to the usual trips that a patient needs to make for an eye test, now it’s not only the apple that’s able to keep the doctor away.

The simple way of how the attachment operates is by allowing patients to view an image and having the patient response if the image seen was clear. Patients may be viewing the same image from time to time, but the repetition of the whole process is to send light to the different sections of the lens.

Determining which part of the lens is opaque relies on the response of the patients and the Catra will further compute the size and also the density of the cloud. With further programming that’s done in the smart phone itself, a full map of the different positions of clouds could be made for the patients.

[Source: MIT Media Lab]