Audio headphones that can help reverse hair loss.
The Japanese make the best sushi, and the wackiest gadgets. Here’s one gadget that’s nearly off the scale, even by their standards – a set of headphones that can help reverse hair loss.
No more expensive, quack, baldness remedies that don’t work. No more painful operations grafting hair from your bum onto your scalp…. this gadget uses science.
The headset was developed by researchers from Japan’s Kanazawa University, (who incidentally, are researching the use of mushrooms to prevent hair loss!). The electrodes you can see in the photo produce a low frequency current that stimulates the wearers scalp, improving blood flow to the hair follicles. The audio headphones themselves are functional and you can plug them into your favourite MP3 player and wait for the new fluff to start growing. No one seems to know what these headphones would do for your battery life though, and I also notice that the electrodes don’t cover the whole scalp. Does this mean that you would end up with a sideways Mohican haircut? Anyway, the chap in the photo seems to have a fine head of hair.
There are lots of issues here, and I’m not sure if this is an early April 1st joke, but apparently the device is available in Japan for $1,000 from the health care products company B-Road.
Found via Techie Diva
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Stylish propellor fan » Coolest Gadgets Says: June 27, 2006 at 1:43 pm
[...] If the Japanese make the wackiest gadgets, this cool-looking fan from Switzerland perhaps shows that Swiss still make the best engineering gadgets; certainly in terms of function and looks. [...]
Hair Man Says: September 9, 2008 at 2:41 pm
This may actually work man. Blood flow is such an important thing when it comes to naturally cure or stop hair loss and if you can stimulate some of the follicles to go back into the growth cycle again, it will be an added bonus!
Donald Urquhart Says: June 6, 2010 at 5:28 pm
This really is a wacky device. One wonders if they specialize in weird gadgets in Japan because they really believe in them or if they just like making such strange fashion statements. However, I can tell you why the electrodes don’t cover the entire scalp and why the shape will not cause a narrow strip of hair growth. If the theory is correct and the electrodes will stimulate more blood circulation to the area, then by applying the current to one area then the entire scalp will get the benefit of more blood being pulled to the area. However, there’s a much cheaper way to get the blood going to the scalp area. Hot water alternating with cold water and a scalp massage will work nicely.
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