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Chill Your Drink In One Minute Flat

Saba — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:29:18 +0000

So, are you troubled about the bottle of wine you just bought for the party in 30 minutes because the drink is not as cold as it should be? Well, we have a superfast solution fit for the ultra-rushed times that we live in called the One Minute Drink Chiller.

As the name suggests, this device has been created with a focus on today’s fast-paced society that we are a part of. The Drink Chiller is capable of chilling drinks of any kind up to 90 times faster than your refrigerator, which amounts to 40 times faster than your feezer. It does that with a difference. The contents of the bottle/can are not turned into an icy block.

In a just one minute, the Drink Chiller can bring down the temperature of soda can to 38 degree Farenheit while a bottle of white wine can be chilled to 50 degree F in a matter of four minutes. With capacity to accomodate only one bottle or can at a time, this chiller will make a wonderful addition to your home-bar at a price of just $63.95.

Via ubergizmo

Zicam Unveils “Cold & Flu Companion” for Google Phone

Ramya — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:44:50 +0000

Cold and flu are the most common illnesses we come across. Most of us suffer from them at least once in a year, saddest point being that there is no permanent solution for it. In this scenario, Arizona based Matrixx Initiatives Inc., which makes products under the Zicam brand has unveiled its new program, the “Cold & Flu Companion” for T-Mobile G1 which warns you about the flu sufferers around.

The Companion gives you a lot of information like the percentage of people suffering from cold or flu in the particular area, the severity of risk, and the symptoms you may come suffer from once you caught on of these. All you have to do is just type in the ZIP code of the place you want to go to or are already at to find out the disease levels and then you would get the information collected by the Surveillance Data Inc., which in turn collects it from polling health care providers and pharmacies.

The Companion is available for free download from the Android Marketplace for G1, and will soon be compatible with iPhone. The creator of G1’s operating system, Google Inc. has launched its own state-by-state Web-based flu tracker recently based on the number of people plugging flu-related searches into Google’s search engine. This program would definitely help travelers a lot.

Source: cfnews

H-Bomb Suit Says ‘Yes’ To Surfing Even In The cold

Saba — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:43:09 +0000

Good news for the adventurer in you who feared entrapment in the cold. Thanks to a some wise guys, the world shall witness its first heated wetsuit called the Rip Curl H-Bomb suit. And it has been tested in the sea inside the Arctic Circle!

The functioning is simple. The suit uses two rechargeable batteries and the material is heat stretchable. Heating takes place with the aid of carbon-fibre coils that run up the back of the suit and warm up the surfer’s core. In other words, the temperature can be controlled in a similar way to an electric blanket. But there is one drawback. The batteries are slim but heavy so movement of the wearer gets limited.

The makers believe that the H-Bomb suit will open up possibilities for people living in extreme cold weather. Expected to go on sale for 500 pounds, the suit is already drawing a lot of attention across the world.

Via newlaunches