May 2, 2012
Have you ever found yourself facing a huge spider in your house, frozen by a fear that set your heart racing and sweat penetrating your clothes? Have you ever hiked up a high mountain, walked up to the edge of a cliff, and found that one glimpse of the dizzying height made it so that you couldn’t breathe? Have you ever found yourself sitting in a meeting, and as your turn to speak approached, your heart raced?
April 12, 2012
With summer approaching, many of us are starting to think a little more seriously about our weight. In particular, it’s that time of year when people worry about how they’ll look in those summer outfits. If this is you and you’re looking for a new way to keep track of your health goals, then it’s time to check out Fitbit. Fitbit is best known for their premium step-trackers and other such intelligent devices.
March 31, 2012
RunKeeper, one of the most popular fitness applications on the market, has issued an update that allows users to set goals and tell their friends about said goals, which is a feature that users were clamoring for. Keeping track of your runs is obviously useful, but for some people, setting goals and seeing them locked [...]
March 23, 2012
You never get your eyes back. They’re sort of like your teeth. Once they go bad, there’s really no natural recovery. You can eat carrots all day long, but if you’re staring directly at your monitor for hours each day it won’t really matter. EyeLeo strives to make sure that we keep our eyes healthy
March 21, 2012
Every music fan knows a good tune can change your mood, but is it possible for sounds to actually alter your brainwaves? Believers in binaural beats think so. They claim these sounds, when listened to through headphones, can help relieve fatigue, help with relaxation or even induce meditation. Does it actually do these things?
March 20, 2012
Sickweather is a new kind of “social health network”. It actually wants to be the wind vane for bad health around the world. Sickweather – presently in beta – aims to show hotspots of unwellness on a map around your own location and help you stay informed so that you can take the proper precautions.
March 16, 2012
I am not that much into gaming but I know a lot of people who are, and after showing them today’s infographic, all of them had very mixed reactions. One wanted to shoot me with his laser gun, another wanted to blow me up with his Apache helicopter missiles while a third started humming the Tetris music while trying to bend me into a weird shape to fit into the corner of the room.
March 8, 2012
Most geeks are addicted to their desk. It’s particularly bad for those of us who both work with a computer and play on a computer. Humans weren’t made to sit in chairs for hours at a time. Let’s look at some cheap (and sometimes free) ergonomic enhancements that can literally improve your life.
March 7, 2012
It helps if family members and patients are more informed about an ailment so that they can ask apt questions and reduce their fears. Googling for medical information is of course the option web-savvy users can go for. Medical information is complex, so how it is organized and presented matters a lot. Medify is a medical research tool for the layman.
March 6, 2012
The days of simple diagnoses and simpler one-pill that cures all is long gone. These days it’s a cocktail of pills that addresses every illness one is unfortunate to encounter. The geekiest option is of course, to turn to a trusted mobile app…in this case, any of these Android apps which can help to remind you to take pills on time.
