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Improve your physical and mental health with Mindbloom – the life game

Improve your physical and mental health with Mindbloom – the life game

There is a whole range of apps and gadgets on the market that will help you look after your health, such as tracking your calorie intake or monitoring your sleep patterns, but how do you go about monitoring life improvement? Visualising your dreams and aspirations, whether it is fitting into that LBD or getting promoted, is a good way to ensure you maintain focus and continue to strive for that goal. But sometimes time and, ironically, … Read entire article »

Filed under: Apps, Mental Health

Runtastic adds a range of gadgets to its mobile app

Runtastic adds a range of gadgets to its mobile app

Popular fitness and run tracking application Runtastic announced this week that it will be launching its own range of devices to enable users to track their workouts even more accurately. Runtastic is a pretty big player in the mobile fitness app market, it’s had more than 5 million downloads in total and 1.4 million in January alone. It’s probably so popular because its online portal caters for seven different languages and it’s available for iOS, Android, BlackBerry … Read entire article »

Filed under: Fitness Gadgets, Mobile Phone Apps

Add competitive edge to your workouts with iPhone app Fitocracy

Add competitive edge to your workouts with iPhone app Fitocracy

There’s nothing new about an app that allows you to track your workouts. Fitocracy, after huge success with a browser-based service, has launched a new iPhone app that brings everything you can expect from a fitness app, but adds a competitive edge. Fitocracy’s USP is the way it lets you go head-to-head with other users and friends. Earn points by logging fitness activities to earn badges or rank on a leaderboard. You can also follow your friends’ progress … Read entire article »

Filed under: Apps, CHS news, Fitness Gadgets, Health Gadgets, Latest News, Mobile Phone Apps

Learn how to use a defibrillator and perform CPR with your iPad

Learn how to use a defibrillator and perform CPR with your iPad

You might not be able to give someone a lifesaving electrical shock with your iPad just yet, but a new app will teach you how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED) and perform the necessary CPR afterwards. The AED Trainer app simulates the operation of an actual defibrillator, used by medical professionals and emergency responders to shock a person’s heart back into rhythm in case of cardiac arrest. It will take users through the process if … Read entire article »

Filed under: Apps, iPad/tablet PC apps

Super thin skin patches could soon monitor health and spot problems

Super thin skin patches could soon monitor health and spot problems

A team in the US has developed a skin patch that can monitor a wide range of vital signs, despite only being as thin as a human hair. At the American Chemical Society’s annual conference in San Diego this week, Professor John Rogers of Illinois University spoke about his new invention, a clever electronic patch that could revolutionise the way we monitor health and spot all kinds of problems before they arise. The small electronic patches, which have been likened … Read entire article »

Filed under: Health Gadgets

Migraine Diary offers web support and tracking for sufferers

Migraine Diary offers web support and tracking for sufferers

The Migraine Trust has recently launched a new web tool that helps those suffering with migraines to track their problems, identify triggers and diagnose any underlying health issues. Migraines are nasty little things and if you’re badly affected by them you can be rendered pretty much useless for days, no light, no food, no company. Like we said, NASTY. There are plenty of online resources to help those that suffer from migraines better understand what triggers their … Read entire article »

Filed under: Web Resources

Explore the anatomy of the brain with online game ahead of Wellcome Collection’s Brains exhibition

Explore the anatomy of the brain with online game ahead of Wellcome Collection’s Brains exhibition

The Wellcome Collection has launched Axon a free online game in which people can explore the anatomy of the brain, clicking on protein targets to grow a neuron, ahead of the opening of its new exhibition ‘Brains: The mind as matter’. In the fast-paced game, players are set the task of making as many of the brain’s 100 trillion connections as they can and challenges them to grow their neurons as long as possible. Climbing through … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured, Latest News, Mental Health

The Alias Robot monitors and assists elderly people

The Alias Robot monitors and assists elderly people

The health and fitness gadget market is rapidly expanding, but there are plenty of interesting tech innovations specially developed for the elderly that are often overlooked in favour of fancier gizmos.  There are a number of specialist trade shows dedicated to geriatric health care across the globe (we saw some interesting demonstrations at CES earlier in the year), but the most recent fair in Hanover, Germany has revealed some very interesting new gadgets and tech advances, … Read entire article »

Filed under: Health Gadgets

Watchie helps keep dementia patients safe

Watchie helps keep dementia patients safe

There’s been a lot of talk about dementia recently, especially after news that the UK Government intends to increase the funding for research into dementia to £66million by 2015. This is welcome news, but what about those who are already suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s? How can we ensure they are safe? It is not easy taking care of someone with dementia, especially if they live with you rather than in a home. If you fit … Read entire article »

Filed under: Health Gadgets

Nike launches app to help you shop for football boots on your mobile

Nike launches app to help you shop for football boots on your mobile

Nike has launched a number of new training tools and gadgets over the past few months, but now the brand is also branching out into e-commerce much more with its latest football app offering in collaboration with Pro Direct Soccer Zone. Nike and Pro Direct Soccer Zone have teamed up to create an app for football lovers that brings together soccer-related content, but has a slick e-commerce site at the core that even lets you try on … Read entire article »

Filed under: Mobile Phone Apps