Health Gadgets

Many fitness products developed nowadays can considerably improve your health and well-being and replace a fitness instructor.

One of such health gadgets is Squid, a T-shirt equipped with electromyography sensors that help you track your workouts. The sensors monitor your muscle activity, then sends all the data on internet portal with the help of smartphone app. The app records the number of repetitions of exercises and watches over your heart rate.

Having high blood pressure often means that you need to take blood pressure drugs regularly. But the makers of a new health gadget claim that their device can help control your blood pressure without medications.

The gadget called Resperate works by slowing down user's breathing, playing soothing music.

Sonic technology has been already used in some health gadgets, such as Clarisonic skin system and Philips Sonicare toothbrush and now the patented technology is behind an innovative sex toy.

The Orb by Revel Body is the first sex toy device that uses this technology to develop high-performance vibration motor.

he new robot developed by Japanese inventors is meant to cure the feelings of loneliness and depression in older people.

Babyloid was designed to look like a baby that requires your attention, reacting to movement, temperature, pressure and light. The cute robot interacts with you by crying or laughing, depending on the environment with the help of sensors.

Fitbit and Jawbone Up help us stay fit and become a great motivational tool. The new Basis Band is a watch-like device that tracks a variety of metrics, including heart rate, calories burned, temperature, sleep quality and other useful data.

It features five body sensors: one that tracks your motions, an optical sensor that watches over the changes in blood flow to tell you everything about your heart rate

Fitbit, a company that is known for its wireless sleep and activity tracker has introduced the new health gadget that helps you follow healthy lifestyle.

Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale is a tool that is designed to track your weight, percentage of your body fat and BMI easily. The scale's glass surface has small electrodes that evaluate your body impedance to give you more detailed information about your body fat and lean mass.

The innovative ultrasound device, which can be easily fit in one's pocket, may soon be used to relieve pain, cure injures or arthritis just at the comfort of your home.

George K. Lewis, the Cornell biomedical engineering graduate student, developed numerous prototypes of the ultrasound devices

Whithings, a well-known technology company, has launched an innovative baby scale for keeping track of your baby's weight.

The Withings Smart Baby Scale that was awarded the CES Innovation Award works in connection with Internet via Bluetooth and WiFi to manage all the data about your child's weight so that you can view and share it with others.

Worried about your sedentary lifestyle? Then it may be time to incorporate innovative office desk.

The company Hammacher Schemmer has developed an Elliptical Machine Office Desk that makes sitting healthier. The adjustable desk that comes with semi-recumbent elliptical trainer helps you workout while sitting at the desk.

Vitadock, the new iPhone app that works in sync with docking devices, is meant to monitor and check your health.

The Vitadock app is developed by German company Medisana and is available on Apple's App Store. The app works with docking monitors that visualize vital health signs and can be purchased. For example, GlucoDock is designed for diabetics to check blood sugar, Thermodock is a monitor that takes body temperature immediately using infrared technology, CardioDock is meant to check blood pressure, while TargetScale is developed for weight management. The docking devices are connected to your iPhone, iPad or iPod.

Nothing can be more annoying than a sound of alarm clock early in the morning, when you can hardly open your eyes. LARK is a sleep system that works with your iPad or iPhone to help you sleep and wake up better.

The system uses silent alarm technology waking you up gently and naturally using soothing vibrations.

The largest manufacturers of the clothing now work on the development of innovative and intelligent fabrics, nanofabrics and wearable technology. These smart clothes look like ordinary clothes, but use the latest technology innovations to help you deal with various health conditions and prevent diseases.

We wear sunglasses to protect our eyes from UV light that may damage our eye health. But innovative sunglasses that let the light shine into your eyes are meant for a different purpose. Sequinetic sunglasses is a useful gadget for those who suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) or winter blues that makes us feel depressed during certain seasons.

A student has developed a new pen that is able to measure and reduce the user's stress level.

Many women, who gave birth, know that along with joy of motherhood, they often get unpleasant surprises, like hemorrhoids. This often happens due to the prolonged labor and increased pressure on the anus.

Plexus Biomedical Inc.. received FDA approval of the first device that prevents external hemorroids during vaginal childbirth. The Hem-Avert Perianal Stabilizer was developed by David Blurton, the company's CEO, who decided to create a gadget that could help women during childbirth after he faced his wife's problem.

The Hem-Avert Perianal Stabilizer is made of medical grade polycarbonate with a cushion pad in the center of the device, which is placed inside with the help of lateral hook and loop fasteners attached to adhesive tape.

The Hem-Avert device is applied externally and non-invasively, supporting the perianal region during labor and delivery. This tool is recommended to use only during vaginal deliveries. During the clinical trials the novel device helped all women avoid hemorrhoids, when compared to 25 percent of women in the control group that had hemorrhoids during vaginal delivery.

Finding a suspicious lump can be scary for every woman, but going to the doctor for a check-up is even greater stress. The scientists at Nihon University have come up with the portable breast cancer detection device that can help you find out about your risk of having breast cancer. This tool can be especially useful for those, who live in remote areas.

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If you have to deal with high blood pressure, checking your blood pressure and heart rate regularly becomes crucial to your health condition. The iHealth Blood Pressure Monitoring System that was developed for your iPhone, iPod or iPad includes a blood pressure cuff, portable dock and an iHealth application for this purpose.

Using the iHealth on your iPhone, you can check your blood pressure and heart rate, placing your gadget in the portable dock that also charges it for longer use.

High blood pressure affects millions of people around the world. Specialists recommend checking your blood pressure on a regular basis since the hypertension often goes unnoticed and the complications include heart problems, metabolic syndrome, vision loss and others. Nowadays there is a variety of blood pressure monitors that require complicated manipulations and data recording.