As you may know by now, I am a bit of a cootie-phobe, and I tend to like all things that kill cooties. With that said, one of the most germy things that we carry around, and really don't think about as germy, is our cellphone. We press our cell…
In college I survived on a healthy diet of McDonalds and Taco Bell, basically went to whichever had the best promotions running. I was poor. Now that I am out of college, still poor, I try and avoid McDonalds, to much talk of GMO, weird food processing, and stuff like…
I remember the good old days of getting my hair, when I had hair, washed at the hair cutters. There was something incredibly relaxing and therapeutic about those hair washes. With that said, I wonder if the Panasonic hair washing robot would offer the same good feelings, and for that…
I was just tipped off by my father of a clever invention and product, a pair of adjustable focus glasses called TruFocals. You can adjust them from your normal prescription to a reading glass with the slide of a lever (located above the bridge). "Seeing clearly everywhere, from up close…
If you are a cootiephobe like me, you like any gadget that claims to kill cooties (like the ones for toothbrushes, etc,). The SteriShoe makes sense in that it is going after one place that could definitely use some coodie killing, the shoe. The SteriShoe is basically a shoe insert…
I have been meaning to write about which plastics to avoid. Not entirely gadget related, but very important information. You know the plastics that are known to leak toxins such as 3 (Vinyl or PVC), 6 (Polystyrene), and 7 (Miscellaneous). What spurred this rant about "bad" plastics? I was recently…
Why am I writing about diapers? No, I haven't gone crazy, yet. I just babysat for my friends kids over the weekend and they have 2 babies in diapers (don't ask). The amount of plastic diapers I threw away was staggering, and I was only with these screaming cute babies…
Contour USB from Bayer is currently the only blood glucose meter that can connect directly to your computer providing instant access to glucose information, trends, and patterns. It transfers individual blood glucose readings from the Contour USB device to your computer. Oddly enough Bayer claims that this unit has the…
The ultimate in Swiss Army Knives, the Victorinox Swiss Army SwissChamp XAVT is large and in charge with 80 essential functions packed into one tool. In addition to assorted knives, scissors, screwdrivers you expect from a Swiss Army knife, the SwissChamp XAVT also includes a digital clock, altimeter, barometer, and…
The folks that make soles for many other brands of shoes, Vibram, have come out with their own shoe, sorta. The Vibram FiveFingers shoes are more like rubbery gloves for your feet than they are shoes. The shoes are designed to give the user the feeling of going barefoot while…