Luckily water is relatively easy to find in most places. Unfortunately, most water is not suitable for drinking. In fact, less than 1-percent of the Earths water is drinkable. In other words, don't drink from that river, stream, or rain barrel without some serious filtration. Or a LifeStraw. The LifeStraw…
Not feeling the watch-based movement and health trackers? Check out the Withings Smart Activity Tracker ($TBA). Able to slim into a pocket or into the included belt clip or arm band, it tracks heart rate, steps taken, strides run, distances covered, calories burned, and quality of sleep, all in a…
If you have ever spent time in an MRI machine, you know how loud they can be. Being jammed inside of a small tube is stressful enough. In addition conventional MRI scanners make sounds in excess of 110 dBA including loud clunking, honking, and laser tag sounds and it is…
If you know how to pick locks this might be a good addition to your wallet, the Titanium Entry Card. If not, start here. The Titanium Entry Card is made out of a single sheet of aircraft grade titanium and comes with two identical rakes, two picks, and two tension…
If you are the type of person that likes using a vaporizer for tobacco, herbs, etc, you have no doubt seen some big changes happening in this market. This latest portable vaporizer, the Ploom Pax, takes a step in the right direction for portable vaporizers. Read on for details of…
One sure way to shorten your lifespan is to spend too much time sitting, it is just not good for you. So what do you do if your job has you desk bound? Get off your butt with a Locus Workstation ($1,150), by Focal Furniture, and stand up a bit…
Medical advancements are amazing, in this case, Sherrie Walters had her left ear removed due to basal cell cancer. The sorta good news is that Dr. Patrick Byrne created a new ear for her that he grew on her left forearm. More details and video after the break.
The fit people at Fitbit want you to get in shape by using their Zip or/and One products. The Fitbit Zip ($59.95) is the cheaper of the two gadgets and tracks steps, distance, and calories burned. You click on the screen to get your stats, basically a cool pedometer with…
Designer Gabriele Diamanti has created a solar oven called the Eliodomestico that can make salt water drinkable. Furthermore, the invention can be made out of cheap and readily available materials enabling local craftsmen in the developing world to build the oven for themselves. The system works by using a black…
If you are one of the people with over active armpit sweat glands or have problems with BO, you might want to pony up the $3,000 and get a miraDry procedure. This little gadget which recently gained FDA approval claims to kill of 22-30,000 sweat glands in the armpit region. …