CoolSystems has rolled out its next generation of Game Ready injury treatment system that comprises of form-fitting wraps, cold and intermittent compression as well as adjustable pressure and temperature settings. This unique injury treatment system was specially designed to be used for treatment of musculoskeletal injuries and post-operative rehabilitation. While ordinary folks like you and I will benefit greatly from using this after picking up a nasty gym injury, I suppose it is even more essential for serious athletes to have something like this in the locker room. After all, they are paid a king’s ransom weekly (footballers at least), so being on the sidelines for too long is definitely bad business for everyone involved.

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Mention rectal thermometer and you can see a lump forming in my throat. I just hate any sort of probes going up where the sun don’t shine, but if I were a kid and I see Spongebob Squarepants smiling widely like that, chances are the pain would automatically lessen (or even disappear) when he gets down to business. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t be smiling like Spongebob if I knew just which orifice I was created to be stuck into. The Spongebob Squarepants rectal thermometer retails for $16.95 from Amazon.

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Suffering from a sinus problem might be a minor problem for some, but one thing’s for sure - it is very irritating to wake up to a runny nose all the time. Dr. Murray Grossan claims to have the solution to the age-old problem, having successfully treated thousands of patients with all degrees of sinusitis courtesy of his very own Hydro Pulse Pulsatile Sinus System. Touted to be the “only sinus/nasal irrigation system available that pulsates”, the Hydro Pulse will send saline into the nasal passages gently via a therapeutic rhythm. This groundbreaking innovation has been shown to be more effective in treating chronic sinusitis and other respiratory maladies than other available methods.

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Remember the Six Million Dollar Man TV series many years ago? That dude was fitted with all sorts of bionic stuff, and he really had it going on with bionic woman. I wonder whether they share oil instead of spit while engaged in some hot tongue action, but I digress. Six million bucks doesn’t really amount up to much these days no thanks to inflation and a rapidly falling dollar - and many people are already decked out in jewelry and other accessories that cost way more than that amount. Still, it would be nice to see humans being fitted with bionic body parts which feel just like the real thing, offering superior athletic performance minus the side effect of steroids. This bionic arm is currently in development at the John Hopkins University courtesy of a contract offered by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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It’s a fact of life that as you get older, your eyesight generally gets worse. For some it simply means they need glasses to read fine print, others have to wear bifocals all day. I’m fortunate enough to start out with 20/20 vision, so I’m hoping that I’ll luck out and not need glasses for a long time. The latest technological breakthrough in eye wear looks a bit strange for grandpa to be wearing.

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How many of you have actually looked at your own x-ray only to scratch your head, wondering what the heck it is and which part of the body that x-ray came from? Doctors are much better readers of such x-rays, and they often engage the help of computerized image analysis in order to extract information from such images. These image analysis makes it a whole lot easier to determine the size of organs before surgery. Unfortunately, the surgeon cannot ‘touch’ nor ‘feel’ the organ in question - but all of that is going to change thanks to a PhD candidate from Uppsala University, Sweden, who successfully developed new technology that makes it a snap to diagnose and plan the treatment of cancer. Haptics technology is involved in the development of such new interactive methods ‘where the mouse and keyboard are replaced by a pen-like three- dimensional mouse that enables the user to feel the virtual organs.’

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Anyone remember those scenes on Star Trek when the doctor would walk up to crew members and give them a shot, but there was no needle? It was just a little puff of air and that was enough to cure them of the alien disease or whatever medical emergency plagued them that week. I even remember episodes where the doctors would “inject” right through the uniform.

Well, it would appear that life imitates art once again with the development of the P.L.E.A.S.E. My source does not reveal to me what P.L.E.A.S.E stands for, but the device delivers a painless laser epidermal system to administer drugs, medications and other vaccinations without the pain of a needle.

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Single guys ought to make the Halitosis Detector a part of their ‘dating’ arsenal, since you can’t really tell on your own if you have a breath bad enough to kill plants. This nifty little device comes with built-in sensors that are capable of rating your breath in four stages, ranging from really good to brimstone and sulfur status from the deepest abyss. As it costs $11, that’s a small price to pay considering your breath might make or break your future the hot date whom you’ll be going out with tonight for dinner.

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