Smart Earplugs Help You Sleep [video]

Smart Earplugs Help You Sleep [video]

The importance of getting a good night’s sleep for human health and happiness is stressed by both academia and the popular press. For some of us, however, sleep can be elusive. Noise — both familiar and unfamiliar — is a common sleep-robbing culprit....
Remote Baby Thermometer [video]

Remote Baby Thermometer [video]

It’s disconcerting — to say the least — when one of your children is sick. As I’m typing this, one of our kids is home sick and we’re all concerned about her, even though she’s an adult and lives 750 miles away. I remember when our...
Wearable Personal Posture Coach [video]

Wearable Personal Posture Coach [video]

Do you have forward neck? I do. It’s also called forward posture or sometimes text neck. This condition is common among people who read and increasingly so with folks who spend lots of time using computers or craned over smartphones and tablets. Forward head is...
Headspace to Clear Your Mind [video]

Headspace to Clear Your Mind [video]

  Not everyone agrees that meditation can improve one’s quality of life. Last year’s study of studies by Johns Hopkins Medicine, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that meditation worked about as well as prescription drugs for relieving...
A Game to Control Panic Attacks

A Game to Control Panic Attacks

Breathing is pretty important; the alternative doesn’t bode well for anyone. But the life-enabling process of breathing can also have a healing or calming role. Two fairly common conditions that many of us have at times are hyperventilation and minor panic...