Monday, October 27, 2008
Passive Tracking of Physical Activity with FitBit
FitBit is a simple motion activated device that tracks the movement of the wearer and provides feedback about physical activity, calories expanded, and how much sleep was obtained by the user. Small enough to be strapped to one's underwear, the device records the internal accelerometer's activity for interpretation on the computer.
The company that makes the device just received $2 million to fund it and put the product on the market, according to TechCrunch.
We particularly like that the device wirelessly syncs with its base station, and keeps your status up to date on the computer.
Product page: FitBit
(hat tip: TechCrunch)
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Medgadget Olympics Continue With Kinesio
There seems to be a lot of medgadgetry being used in this year's Olympics. The latest mystery has been the black pattern on America's beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh's shoulder. The bookofjoe blog had a crack research team investigate the matter, and they've apparently discovered that the stuff is Kinesiotape, the manufacturer of which claims it has the ability to "re-educate the neuromuscular system, promote lymphatic flow, reduce pain, enhance performance, prevent injury, and promote injury resolution." Turns out the tape is used by a few other Olympians, and Kinesio has a page showing off its product at the games: Kinesio @ the Olympics...
More at bookofjoe...
Product page: Kinesio® Tex...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
A Slam-Dunk Design for a Wheelchair
When they were students at the University of Illinois, Ricky Biddle, Eric Larson and Ben Shao decided to do something for the disabled athletes involved in wheelchair basketball. This sport is inherently dangerous, and injuries resulting from collisions are frequent. The other intrinsic problem is the need for participants to use hands not only to dribble the ball but to control the wheelchair. So the three chaps teamed up with Austin Cliffe, another designer, and have come up with a prototype Balance Sport Wheelchair, now Gold winner of the 2008 International Design Excellence Award in Medical & Scientific Concepts category.
Ricky Biddle gave us the following explanation:
The design solution uses a braking system that is activated by the user’s movements in an intuitive way. To turn, the player leans in the desired direction. To stop, the player simply leans back.Every athlete is different. Add a wheelchair to the equation and these disparities multiply exponentially. On top of size differences, personal preferences and so on, wheelchair athletes also have different injuries and unique challenges and mobility limitations associated with their injury. This meant designing a solution that would meet the needs of people with varying levels of skills and abilities.
After testing simple mechanisms and methods of braking, it became clear that the brakes and the leaning mechanism would have to be extremely flexible and be able to be tuned to accommodating the various needs and preferences of players. Disc brakes allow for adjustability that is as simple as turning a dial and for independent adjustment of the left and right wheels. The disc brake system isolates most of the contributing variables of what could be a complicated braking system into two small, easily adjustable units.
The designers spent a great deal of time and effort addressing the points of rotation to find the optimal ergonomic solution. In an attempt to aid players with mobility only from the shoulder up, the left-to-right point of rotation was placed at the middle of the back in prototypes, but it quickly became apparent that this solution was too sensitive. A very slight lean could cause the brakes to engage suddenly, and players with limited means to control their leaning would be jostled around in a jerky turn. What should have been one smooth action became several shorter brake, brake, brake motions. After many attempts to dial this in, it became apparent such a short throw was more of a detriment than an aid to players with low mobility. We observed that left-to-right leaning by athletes with greater mobility involved a shifting of weight from one buttocks cheek to the other. This resulted in a linkage type of rotation, rather than the one-point center rotation that we had considered. We placed two pivot points under the seat. The longer throw also results in a less touchy mechanism, giving players of all abilities a smoother lean/turn braking operation. Two points of left and right rotation add further to the adjustable resistance of the leaning resistance.
The leaning of the seat back to actuate the brakes also allows for adjustable resistance for athletes of different abilities. Player with little mobility can set a high resistance of their seat’s lean and adjust their brake resistance to allow very slight movement to give them the desired braking and turning response. Players with more mobility, on the other hand, may prefer a looser setting to allow their upper body to move more freely and fluidly without inadvertently braking or turning.
If you would like to learn more about the wheelchair, Ricky Biddle's contact info can be found here...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Real Exercise for a Virtual World
A couple Dutch tinkerers, with the understanding that many of us already live in Second Life, spliced an exercise bike with a computer. The system now allows a user to control an avatar while getting some real life exercise at the same time.
From the project page:
The first prototypes have been built using conventional hometrainers. These hometrainers are equipped with sensors for measuring velocity and driving direction. Using the same optical sensors also the steering direction is measured. The data is transferred to a PC using the standard PS2 keyboard interface. With a PS2-USB adapter the hometrainer can be connected to a wide variety of systems, (MS Windows, Linux, MAC).The forward velocity and steering direction are measured using optical sensors which can easily be integrated into the existing hardware. Conversion of sensorsignals to PS2 standard is done using an AVR-RISC microcontroller van Atmel.
The bike steer is equipped with an 'ET-button®' (named after a legendary scene in a Spielberg movie). This button is for initiating the flying mode.
Video of developers playing with the system (3MB or 12MB Windows Media file)...
And for those with no patience, a shorter, grainier video on YouTube:
(hat tip: ScienceRoll)
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Real Exercise for a Virtual World
A couple Dutch tinkerers, with the understanding that many of us already live in Second Life, spliced an exercise bike with a computer. The system now allows a user to control an avatar while getting some real life exercise at the same time.
From the project page:
The first prototypes have been built using conventional hometrainers. These hometrainers are equipped with sensors for measuring velocity and driving direction. Using the same optical sensors also the steering direction is measured. The data is transferred to a PC using the standard PS2 keyboard interface. With a PS2-USB adapter the hometrainer can be connected to a wide variety of systems, (MS Windows, Linux, MAC).The forward velocity and steering direction are measured using optical sensors which can easily be integrated into the existing hardware. Conversion of sensorsignals to PS2 standard is done using an AVR-RISC microcontroller van Atmel.
The bike steer is equipped with an 'ET-button®' (named after a legendary scene in a Spielberg movie). This button is for initiating the flying mode.
Video of developers playing with the system (3MB or 12MB Windows Media file)...
And for those with no patience, a shorter, grainier video on YouTube:
(hat tip: ScienceRoll)
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Tanita Body Composition Monitor
An interesting personal scale, if it can be called in such a limited way, has been put to our attention as a nifty present for the health conscious and gadget obsessed man in your family. The device claims to provide accurate muscle mass and body fat numbers for each arm and leg, in addition to the body on the whole. And these and other numbers can be tracked via a graph screen on the top of the unit.
Our new father is planning to review the device hands on (feet on?) in the coming days to see if one needs to know Fortran to operate this thing.
Product page: Tanita BC558 Segmental Body Composition Monitor
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Slimstick Exercise Companion from Seiko
Seiko has created what seems to be a tiny pedometer-like device that can supposedly calculate one's calories burned during a workout routine. The Slimstick features a built-in accelerometer, and algorithms that use its information, along with input from the user, to calculate one's exertion in real-time.
Google translation of Slimstick info page...
(hat tip: Engadget)
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Friday, April 25, 2008
VitalJacket: Heart Monitoring Shirt
In an attempt to make heart monitoring less visible and bulky for individuals requiring continuous monitoring of their heart, BioDevices, SA, has a unique solution. The company has developed a T-shirt which continuously monitors heart rate and ECG waves. This is an ideal solution for elderly patients and has a lot of potential for fitness applications as well.
The Vital Jacket® is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with microelectronics. It was designed and developed to be a usable pragmatic approach for different clinical and normal life scenarios, in hospitals, home or on the move, that need continuous or frequent high quality vital signs monitoring from the patient or healthy subject. The concept was designed and specified based on the long tradition on biomedical instrumentation and telemedicine of the IEETA institute of the University of Aveiro, Portugal (www.ieeta.pt/sias).The Vital Jacket® HWM mobile device is an intelligent wearable garnment that is able to continuous monitor electrocardiogram (ECG) wave and Heart Rate for different fitness, high performance sports, security and medical applications.
There are currently two versions, HWM100 that stores data on a SD memory card for posterior analysis in a PC and, HWM200 that allows on-line visualization using a smartphone/PDA.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Femtosecond Lazers: Killing Cancer & Fusing Metal to Bone
University of Missouri scientists are working to bring functional femtosecond lasers [as in beams] out of the real of sci-fi and into the real world of medicine. Lead researcher, and professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Robert Tzou explains how this new technology could revolutionize everything from dentistry to oncology to joint replacement surgery.
What makes the femtosecond laser different from other lasers is its unique capacity to interact with its target without transferring heat to the area surrounding its mark. The intensity of the power gets the job done while the speed ensures heat does not spread. Results are clean cuts, strong welds and precision destruction of very small targets, such as cancer cells, with no injury to surrounding materials. Tzou hopes that the laser would essentially eliminate the need for harmful chemical therapy used in cancer treatments.“If we have a way to use the lasers to kill cancer cells without even touching the surrounding healthy cells, that is a tremendous benefit to the patient,” Tzou said. “Basically, the patient leaves the clinic immediately after treatment with no side effects or damage. The high precision and high efficiency of the UUL allows for immediate results.”
Practical applications of this type of laser also include, but aren’t limited to, the ability to create super-clean channels in a silicon chip. [Ed note: we can think of more applications later...] That process can allow doctors to analyze blood one cell at a time as cells flow through the channel. The laser can be used in surgery to make more precise incisions that heal faster and cause less collateral tissue damage. In dentistry, the laser can treat tooth decay without harming the rest of the tooth structure.
Associate Professor Yuwen Zhang and Professor Jinn-Kuen Chen recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to use the laser to “sinter” metal powders—turn them into a solid, yet porous, mass using heat but without massive liquefaction—a process which can help improve the bond between joint implants and bone.
“With the laser, we can melt a very thin strip around titanium micro- and nanoparticles and ultimately control the porosity of the bridge connecting the bone and the alloy,” Zhang said. “The procedure allows the particles to bond strongly, conforming to the two different surfaces.”
(hat tip: Gizmodo)
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Monday, February 25, 2008
RespiShirt Respiratory Assistant
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering in Germany developed an innovative system to monitor the respiratory status in patients suffering from a variety of cardiac and pulmonary conditions. The technology is designed to guide and optimize lifestyles of patients:
The digital assistant acts as a navigation device and tells the cyclists about places of interest with the aid of video clips. More than anything, however, it takes care of the person’s health needs, as ISST project manager Thomas Königsmann reports: “The PDA suggests suitable tours and monitors the patient’s respiration values during the bicycle tour.” In the evening, the doctor can check out the data and get an idea of how the patient’s health is progressing. If necessary, he or she can adjust the medication dosage on the basis of the data obtained.The patient’s respiration can be monitored with the RespiSENS measuring system developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. This is integrated directly in an item of clothing, and registers how fast and how strongly the wearer is breathing. The measurements are taken with the aid of respiration straps, which are conductors integrated into a T-shirt in a zig-zag pattern across the patient’s chest and stomach, and which emit an electric signal when expanded. The raw data are transmitted to a tiny module that records and processes them, then transmits the information to a cell phone or a PDA. If the value fails to reach a certain pre-defined level, the system sets off an alarm. “The device requires only a very low current, and is so small that it causes no discomfort in the patient’s clothing,” says project manager Andreas Tobola. “The module itself is no bigger than a matchbook, and then there is a small rechargeable battery for the power supply.” The measuring system is suitable for a wide range of applications: in the diagnosis of sleep disorders, in remote care of patients or even in sports. Professional and amateur athletes can use it to measure their breathing rate and effort with great reliability.
Fraunhofer investigators will be presenting their technology at CeBIT in Hanover on March 4 through 9.
Press release: Digital assistant monitors respiration...
Flashbacks: Bio-Shirt: The Korean Wearable Medgadget ; ECG-Shirt; SmartShirt: A Breathable Fabric (That Monitors Your Breathing); LifeShirt: Clothes that Feel Back; Dressed Smart: the Wearable Health System
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
G-Trainer Weight Reducing Treadmill Approved as Medgadget by FDA
G-Trainer antigravity treadmill, from Menlo Park, CA based Alter-G, Inc., is now classified as a medical device, cleared by the FDA "for medical uses in rehabilitation after lower extremity injury or surgery, aerobic conditioning, weight control, gait training for neurological conditions, and strengthening and conditioning for older patients," according to the company's press release.
The device has more features than the computer in front of you, namely "an advanced air pressure regulation system, enclosure sealing component, a customized treadmill, and a touch screen control panel."
From a G-Trainer brochure:
Alter-G has developed an advanced air pressure regulation system to ensure that body weight variables can be accurately set for every user, every time. The air pressure regulation system is sophisticated enough to monitor and account for changes to the interior pressure of the cavity so that accurate body weight reduction can be maintained throughout a workout session.Users can choose to reduce their effective body weight by as much as 80% in as small as 1% increments. It takes very little pressure in the cavity to produce a substantial lifting force and because the pressure is distributed over a large surface area, the user feels very little force against their body.
Product page: G-Trainer
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Electronic Swimming Coach
A software analysis and modeling system, being built at the University of Edinburgh with help from Sheffield Hallam University, is using cameras and visual analysis algorithms to provide real time feedback and recommendations to competitive swimmers and their coaches.
UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council explains:
The new system offers two key benefits beyond the capabilities of any other currently used in elite swimming training. First, the feedback it generates is available immediately, so swimmers and coaches can use it at the poolside and implement its recommendations while a training session is still in progress; this will speed up the whole process involved in improving glide technique. Second, it generates data of unprecedented quality in terms of detail and accuracy.Ultimately, the result will be faster times in races. Gliding more efficiently, with less 'drag', can cut vital fractions of a second from a swimmer's time. The difference between winning an Olympic title and finishing out of the medals is often measured in hundredths of a second, so this innovative software could give British swimmers a valuable edge in their quest for glory...
First, the swimmer is marked at their body joints using water-resistant markers. The swimmer is then videoed in action using underwater and poolside cameras, with the images fed into a computer equipped with the software. The software tracks the movements of the markers and runs the digitised position data through an innovative, highly sophisticated mathematical model developed at the University of Edinburgh by Dr Roozbeh Naemi. A replay of the swim then instantly appears on a plasma screen at the poolside, overwritten with graphs and data on different technical aspects of the glide.
"Both the speed and accuracy of the feedback will add to the value of the advice that coaches give their swimmers," says Professor Ross Sanders, who is leading the project. "Another important benefit is that the alterations to technique suggested by the software are customised exactly to suit each individual swimmer."
Press release: Gliding to Gold - World-Beating Software Could Boost British Swimming ...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Impact Guardian: Smart Helment Calls 911
If a motorcyclist falls and bumps his head in the woods, does it make a sound? If you're wearing your new smart helmet invented by engineering student Brycen Spence at UMass Amherst, it does. Plus, it will call emergency services and alert them to your location.
“The WIG will be activated when it is buckled on,” says Spencer. “If you fall and hit your head, the helmet will detect that and beep for a minute or so. If you don’t turn it off, WIG sends for help, either directly to 911 or to a third-party service that relays the emergency call to 911. Included with the message will be a GPS location giving your geographical coordinates so the emergency team knows precisely where you are.”Nicknamed “The OnStar of Helmets,” Spencer’s WIG would be a boon for motorcyclists, bicyclists, ATV enthusiasts and others, especially those venturing into remote areas. There were 113,900 ATV injuries requiring emergency room treatment in 2002 and 76,000 motorcycle-related injuries in 2004. In many instances, victims had to wait a long time for emergency response crews to find them.
At this time, the WIG has no competition. A similar invention on the market is a personal locator beacon that skiers and others use in case of accidents, but this device must be manually activated. There is also a football helmet that detects if the wearer suffers a concussion, but nothing on the market phones for help automatically like the WIG.
Spencer has started a seed-stage business with a business plan that recently won a $1,250 prize from the Executive Summary Competition in the campus’ Technology Innovation Challenge. Last spring he also won $1,250 from the Grinspoon Foundation for Entrepreneurship, whose scholarship provides monetary awards to students who demonstrate the “entrepreneurial spirit” and who have a strong desire to own their own businesses. Spencer has also invested $2,500 of his own money, no small amount for a student, in a one-year Provisional Patent that will lead, patent pending, to a 20-year Utility Patent.
Spencer has used all the prize money to buy the inner workings for his helmet, including an accelerometer to detect any impact that exceeds a predetermined safety level and a communications device to provide the user’s location for rescue crews. All the electronics are small and relatively inexpensive, allowing them to fit in the current helmet configuration with little physical modification or increase in overall helmet price.
Press Release: Engineering student creates safety helmet that signals for help...
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Monday, February 4, 2008
Vicor and US Army Team on New Cardiac Monitor
Based on a patented, proprietary algorithm, PD2i Cardiac Analyzer from Vicor Technologies, Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) is promoted by the company as a device that can stratify patients' risk to die from Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) within a six month time frame. Moreover, the company believes that its device, which collects all the data within a twenty minute test, that can be administered in a cardiologist's office, is "superior to all other devices in predicting SCD, with greater than 95% sensitivity and 81% specificity."
PD2 is already undergoing a large-scale clinical trial, called VITAL, to evaluate its ability to predict the risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmic events. Now the US Army is jumping on the wagon to see if the device is useful for combat triage:
President and CEO, David H. Fater said, "We are very excited about the opportunity to cooperate with the U.S. Army on the Prediction of Injury Severity and Outcome in the Critically Ill Using the Point Correlation Dimension Algorithm. The USAISR is exploring ways to assess the severity of injury, and probability of survival, of critically injured combat casualties and critically ill civilian patients. The intention is for the medical personnel at USAISR, in conjunction with our personnel, to test Vicor's PD2i algorithm in several diverse cohorts of animal data as well as in human trauma, ICU patients and combat casualties. It is our mutual expectation that deterioration in status due to trauma and/or hemorrhage will lead to dimensional reductions reflected by the PD2i."Mr. Fater added, "This collaborative effort is envisioned to lead to development of new comprehensive decision support tools and/or devices that may incorporate the PDI2 algorithm alone or in association with other metrics currently under investigation at USAISR with the aim to monitor, assess status and predict outcome in critically injured humans."
Product page: PD2i Cardiac Analyzer ...
Press release: Vicor Technologies Announces Collaboration Agreement With The U. S. Army For Use Of PD2i Cardiac Analyzer
US Patent: PD2i electrophysiological analyzer
Clinical trial information: The Ability Of The PD2i Cardiac Analyzer To Predict Risk Of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmic Events (VITAL)
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Friday, February 1, 2008
BrainScope for HeadTrauma
A company called BrainScope, from Chesterfield, MO, is working on developing a portable device to identify potential cases of brain injury from shocks to the head. The company is currently working with the NCAA on developing a strategy to evaluate the effectiveness of the device. The device is not without a controversy:
BrainScope employs an old and somewhat controversial technology called qEEG (quantitative electroencephalogram). Originally developed in the 1930s, qEEG later grew popular among New Age clinics. Some still say it can be used to diagnose and treat learning disabilities and depression. Such claims have never been fully substantiated. Many neurologists are still skeptical when they hear about approaches like BrainScope's. "This sounds like a promising tool, but who knows if it will be useful once it's put through its paces?" asks Howard Rosen, a neurologist at the University of California at San Francisco. Neurologists today often use costly MRI exams to spot concussions.BrainScope CEO Elvir Causevic was well aware of questions surrounding qEEG, so he sought the advice of 30 leading brain experts before the company started developing its first product in 2003. The result was a tool that's cheap and simple enough to be used on the sidelines. Rather than producing hard-to-decipher squiggly lines, the BrainScope device displays a meter, which shows whether brain activity after an injury falls in or out of the danger zone. Built-in signal-processing technology picks up abnormal brain signals, while simultaneously canceling out electrical noise from blinking, breathing, and the like. The device calculates the severity of each injury by comparing brain wave readings to a database of 15,000 scans compiled at New York University's Brain Research Lab.
More at the BusinessWeek...
Product page: BrainScope NT-1000
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Impact Sensing Football Helmets from Riddell
Sport equipment manufacturer Riddell of Rosemont, IL is now shipping its IQ HITS™ football helmets that feature a number of motion sensors and wireless transmission capabilities, all designed to provide coaches and medical teams on the sideline with real-time information on the players' cranial impacts. According to MIT Technology Review, the University of Missouri and a few other teams have already ordered their helmets.
We envision that this technology will somehow one day be coupled with car-like airbags, providing more than just actionable information.
More from MIT Tech Review...
Riddell IQ HITS&trade product page...
(hat tip: Engadget)
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Ski Mojo Pampers Bad Skiiers; Scares the Rest
This device from UK-based Kinetic Innovations Ltd. is designed to keep legs in a squatting position for longer, 
alleviating aches and pains after a long day of skiing. Likely designed for older, bad skiers like ourselves, the device comes in three styles for different weight: blue (weak), red (medium), and yellow (strong) all for the same price of £289UK or $600 US.
The purists are predictably not happy. Here's Mark Frary, wintersports editor of The Times of London:
I put the Ski Mojo in the same category as heated chairlift seats -- the patio heaters of the skiing world -- attempting to warm up the entire outdoor world just because you can't being a little bit chilly. The Ski Mojo is yet another invention for the pampered skiers that are increasingly cluttering up the slopes. If you don't want aching legs at the end of a hard day on the slopes, then you might as well invest in a snowmobile and be done with it.
Product page: Ski Mojo ...
Times Online: Head to head: ski-Mojos, cop-out or cure-all? ...
More from Be Sportier: Ski-Mojo Prolongs your Skiing ...
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
HydroPhysio™ Workout is Like a Waterbed for Treadmills
We are not sure if the waterbed comparison is helpful or not, but the UK-based firm HydroPhysio designed this aqua-based treadmill to deliver, what it believes, better outcomes for training and rehabilitation. The device was recently at the Medica 2007 in Düsseldorf.
Hydro training has advantages for people across all levels of fitness; it has been shown that water based exercise increases muscular strength with little concussive forces to the joints.Water works because of its unique physical properties. When exercising on land gravity is the primary resistant force whilst the natural buoyancy of water reduces weight bearing stress, allowing greater range of movement with less strain on muscles, joints and bones whilst improving cardio vascular fitness.
The effects of hydro static pressure can help improve circulation and provide effective treatment for swollen muscles or joints.
Athletes of all levels often experience lower body injuries during land based training, however when training in water these injuries are rare.
The density of water provides an even and fluid resistance, comfortably toning and strengthening muscles more efficiently. Athlete's core stability can be improved by lower body training in water. This core stability workout can be beneficial to athletes across many sporting disciplines. Resistance jets can be used to increase exercise intensity and improve balance.
Studies show that training time can be reduced by as much as two thirds while still achieving the same results as conventional training. This is a remarkable advantage for those who wish to maximise their training time.
Check out this video of the HydroPhysio™:
Product page: HydroPhysio™...
(hat tip: Membrana.ru)
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Being Safe Never Looked So Silly
If you love winter sports, and think you may come dangerously close to an avalanche this year then pick yourself up a LifeBag, the latest in hi-tech avalanche survival gear.
The Life Bag is an airbag for avalanche designed for all winter sport addicts, and professionals. The airbag is triggered manually by pulling a handle. Once the handle is pulled, the 150 Liters of the Snowpulse airbag inflate in only 3 seconds.The Life Bag can easily be reused and refilled. Professionals and resellers have the possibility to refill the air cylinder themselves. Training is therefore possible since you simply have to refill the cylinder after trying your Snowpulse airbag.
The Life Bag is designed to bring you the best protection, while still remaining light, compact and user friendly. Snowpulse airbags are a set of innovative solutions.
The Head On Top® technology (HOT)
Similarly to a life-jacket used in the sea, the Life Bag keeps you on your back and your head out of the snow. It's the best solution to avoid being asphyxiated.
Breathing help
Snowpulse airbags offer a high added value option : the automatic deflation of your airbag. The airbag deflation creates a cavity around the victim. This cavity is a real help to extract the victim and also provides 150 Liters of air to breath if you are buried. Survival time is therefore drastically increased.
Shocks and traumas protection
Up to 20% of avalanche deaths are due to traumas. Snowpulse airbags are the only one designed to protect your head and thorax against shocks. !
(hat tip: Coolest Gadgets)
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