Diabetes affects 1 in 19 people, that’s 26 million people in the US, and patients need to be in
constant control of their blood sugar levels, otherwise they risk
damage to their eyes, kidneys or heart. Methods to measure blood glucose are painful (finger pricking and Ditto or Glooko), or invasive (constant glucose monitors, CGMs). Hopefully they will soon be replaced by Google’s Smart Lens.
Gotta catch ’em all… before they catch up to YOU! These new Yakuza action figures bring the gritty intensity, tattooed imagery and distinctive fashion sense of Japan’s criminal underworld to every collector’s display shelf.
Durr is a new type of watch that messes with your perception of time. It buzzes every 5 minutes, so you can feel how time passes differently depending on your situation. Use it in the following scenarios and see how long 5 minutes really is.
Unveiled at the Spring 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Withings Aura Smart Sleep System has all the indications of a gadget that might actually help consumers. The Smart Sleep System monitors your sleep experience and actively works to improve it using light and sound.
How do you make decisions? By trusting your gut? Or by making lists? David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University is advising us to stop trusting ourselves, so should we put our trust in technology instead? ChoiceMap and Feels are two iphone apps that claim they help us make better decisions.
Panasonic’s new Toughpad 4K UT-MA6 packs an awful lot of power under the hood, and does so without compromising durability. Think of it as a heavily bumped-up Microsoft Surface 2. Pun intended.
…. You can go to your credit card issuer and ask to have your debit and
credit cards re-issued without an RFID chip or you can protect your
cards, all of them, by buying a secure wallet or credit card case to
protect the cards from e-thiefs. I don’t often carry my money and my
credit cards in the same case, so I ordered a well-reviewed wallet and a
few credit card security cases to try them out. Here’s what I like…
Health and fitness is still going strong in 2014. As waistlines continue
to expand, so does the fitness market. LG wants to enter the foray and
solidify their place in the market, and looks to be doing so with their
Life Band Touch smart watch and fitness tracker. The Life Band utilizes
Bluetooth LE and is compatible with Android operating systems and Apple
iOS. But with so many of these activity trackers on the market, can LG
differenieate themselves enough to stand out from the crowd?
It seems like practically everything has Bluetooth capabilities these
days, but there is one place the technology hasn’t hit yet- your mouth.
That is, until now. Get ready; coming soon to a mouth near you is the
Kolibree Bluetooth Toothbrush.
When Suitable Technologies CEO Scott Hassan talked about the Beam at CES 2014, he mentioned that he has one of his own at home which he uses with his kids while away. Not such a bad idea, is it? He thought so too – which is why the Beam + is now available to the general public.
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