The Hic-Cup Cures The Hiccups

The Hic-CupI hate getting the hiccups as much as the next guy. I’ve found that the ‘hold a pencil under your tongue while drinking water’ works best for me, sugar or a loud noise just never did it. As the familiar nerve spasms are not a common occurrence I don’t think I’d be in the right demographic for this particular item but it is fascinating.

Through the use of natural galvanic action, a mild ionic flow is created that initiates a sub-sensory bio-electric therapy. The liquid in the Hic-Cup is also Ionized by the galvanic action, adding to the potential for successful stimulation of the responsible nerves. It is believed that the “hiccup” nerves are “re-set” by this natural electric current that you cannot feel, and that this reliably ends the distressing spasms.

  So this mean that I can cure my hiccups with a mild jolt of electricity. Well then, I know what I’ll be doing the next time I come down with a case of singultus.

[via Medgadget]

Remedy Hiccups with the "Hic-Cup"

MOO Card Test Set

MOO card test set

These are a set of free cards that I got from Moo.com. I like the way they look, some of the full frame formatted photos have white borders but I can fix that by uploading some edited photos. The paper has a nice weight to it. The surface is smooth satin and feels great. I’ll be buying more of these soon. I love the way that Flickr can be used to not only display your photos but to also serve as the source for physical items. These cards are darn cool. 

MOO card test set on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

STAX Food System

Chris Powells' STAX system 

If anyone asks me my opinion on weight loss I just say eat less and move around more. It’s a simple concept but it can be hard to do sometimes. Oddly enough, the ‘moving around more’ part, at least for me was never a problem. It was the eating less part that was tough. I hate feeling like my stomach is trying to digest itself. 🙁 Anyway, I saw this today and realized that keeping the food with you through out the day would help a lot. Lots of diets tell you to eat a bunch of small meals throughout the day but where do you keep the food? The Stax system solves this problem. The design is pretty clever. The food is loaded into color coded containers (protein, carbs, veggies, etc) and then into the bag. The bag has a gel pack to keep everything nice and chilly. It comes with a timer so you know when to chow down and the best part is you can use this with just about any diet you want. So if your looking to follow a diet you found in a book or prefer to ‘roll your own’ you can do both with this. It’s like a LEGO set for food, it gives you the tools to do the diet that works for you. Not too shabby.

Welcome to Chris Powell’s STAX

Zero Day Flaw in Firefox?

 Firefox

Hackers claim that by using java script a potential security breach can be caused in the popular web browser from Mozilla, Firefox. As most people (should) know, the 800 pound gorilla browser from Microsoft (Internet Explorer) can be brought to it’s knees in so many different ways that many people warn against using it for normal web browsing. Firefox, on the other hand, is much more secure. However, as anyone that deals with software knows nothing is bullet proof. If this hack does turn out to be real there should be a patch released in the next few days. What is much more of a sinister note is that the announcement came during a black hat hacker conference where the presenters stated that they knew of more than 30 exploits for Firefox. A Mozilla security staffer in attendance asked them to turn over the bugs and take the $500US bounty for each one rather than use them in botnets. The hackers laughed at that and said "It is a double-edged sword, but what we’re doing is really for the greater good of the Internet, we’re setting up communication networks for black hats". Isn’t that just wonderful…

Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox