Despite the fact that it took two full years to go from announced to shipped status, Finis’ Aquapulse is now finally shipping. It’s a head-mounted device that uses an Infrared sensor to monitor your heart rate via your earlobe.

You get the rate in real time through bone conduction technology. Pretty interesting technology, for the health conscious. It will even go underwater for swimmers. It will cost you $149.99. Hey it’s the hardest working muscle in your body. It’s worth it right?

NEC Avio Infrared Technologies have just released a new thermometer that can tell your temperature without you even having to touch it. No more sticking a thermometer into your mouth. The Thermo Mirror SX-01 will easily spot people who have a fever. As an example, if an office is worried about the spread of flu in the building, this device can quickly and easily check the temperature of a person before they enter the building. If they have a high temperature, they may not be allowed in, thus keeping the office healthier.

Just look into the mirror, and it will automatically measure the person’s temperature using infrared thermography. The Thermo Mirror will cost about $1,200.

The VALKEE Bright Light headset will help you deal with SAD. Seasonal Affective Disorder. This headset offers no music, but is instead used for bright light therapy. The VALKEE Bright Light headset increases light exposure by bringing light very close to the brain through the ear canals.

This supposedly prevents depression and can affect your mood. Some recent tests with the Valkee Bright Light headset showed that about 9 out 10 of depressed patients experienced total relief of symptoms after receiving daily doses. It’s available in black or white and retails for €185 ($242). Quackery or is there something to this? You decide.

Sonamba, is a well-being monitor system for seniors that has SMS messaging so that family caregivers know how their parents or relatives are doing everyday and not just in emergency situations. Sonamba features two-way messaging capabilities in addition to medication and calendar reminders, games, social networking, and a digital photo frame.

There’s also an iPhone App to update the Sonamba from a distance so that the seniors in your life are always updated with new appointments or medication schedules. It retails for $549.00 with a $39.00 a month subscription fee.

If you absolutely need to know exactly how much body fat you have right at this moment,(And I’m sure that situation arises everyday for you) then check out the Pocket Metabolism Checker.

All you have to do is input your weight, height, age and gender, then touch a pair of electrodes which sends a mild electrical current through your body so it can do it’s thing and calculate your body fat percentage. Share the fun with friends since 8 users can be registered on a single device.

Getting an Ultrasound is the only way to spy on babies in the womb, but it involves yet another trip to the doctor’s office and you have enough on your mind preparing for this new life. That’s where this new gadget comes in handy.

The GE Vscan is an ultrasound device that can comfortably fit in your pocket when you aren’t using it to open a window into your wife’s womb. It looks like a cheap clamshell pone and has a little display that will show you your baby.

Breathalyzers have done a lot of good ever since they were invented. They have taken many drunk drivers off the roads for one thing. Well, now they are ready to help out in a whole new way thanks to some scientists in Israel, who are working on a breathalyzer that they think can detect lung cancer.

Similar tests already exist, but require a pretreatment of the breath, which adds time to the procedure and money. The Israeli breathalyzer doesn’t need any pretreatments. The team conducted a study, with 56 healthy volunteers and 40 people who were known to have lung cancer. They were tested by the breathalyzer, using a sensor that consists of nine gold nanoparticle chemiresistors.

Look at that gargantuan webcam. It’s not a webcam at all. It’s Panasonic’s Nano Care beauty appliance. Model numbers EH-SA42 and EH-SA41. Both devices will keep your area moist throughout the day so that your skin will be moist, not dry.

The EH-SA42 doesn’t even need any water to do it. So yes, what we have here are a pair of simple humidifiers. Who knows if it will help your skin, but at least you’ll have a honking huge webcam looking thing on your desk. Both models will arrive in Japan this November, where moistness will reign.

Wink Glasses are a clip-on device that monitors your alertness. How does it do this? By counting how often you blink. Your blink rate will tell it if you are getting tired. If it senses that you are dozing, the glass will turn opaque and supposedly, that will wake you up.

I don’t wear glasses, but if I did and I got tired, I doubt this would wake me up. Maybe the first few times. But I’m sure you get used to it and it wears off.

Yesterday we told you about the Pedomostick, a device that puts a pedometer in a cane, giving those who use a cane some much needed functionality. Well, the Baylis “Slik-Stik” LED Folding Walking Stick is a similar device, updating the walking stick with some useful features.

The Slikstik can wind up to light your way, so that you can be seen in the dark and stay safe. If that isn’t enough, it also makes noise. This one is a great idea. We aren’t sure why the walking stick is getting all kinds of upgrades, but we’re just glad it is. Walking stick users have never had so many options.

Spec Computer wants to help you sleep better, so they are offering the ZZZ Checker, which will help you analyze your sleep patterns. Lucky for you it doesn’t require you to wear anything dorky on your wrist or your head while you snooze.

It uses both audio and visual sensors to figure out when you’re tossing and turning, snoring or grinding your teeth. It will let you know if your sleep level is light, medium or deep and show you the number of hours and minutes you’ve spent in each level.

Researchers from the University of Southern California want to use cellphones to help the obese shed weight. The idea is to hook up obese kids to a “mobile body network,” consisting of a device to measure the skin’s electrical conductivity along with a heart-rate monitor, accelerometer, blood glucose reader and GPS for location, and connecting it with a battery sensor on the child’s body.

The system uses a Smartphone to send the collected behavioral data to the university’s computers, where it is then figures out what the information means. If your kid is laying around, text messages will be shot his way to get him to do get off his ass and do something.

Swine Flu got you down? This gadget may help clean your nose from harmful bacteria and other nasty stuff. The Grossan HydroPulse Nasal Irrigator shoots warm saline through your nasal cavities to flush out all the stuff which can cause problems.

Only $149.95. A clean nose is a healthy nose. Many people swear by clearing their sinuses in this way. These days with the pig/bacon/bird/swine flu you can’t be too careful.

The goal of the JaipurKnee Project was to create a prosthetic leg that was amazingly sturdy as well as amazingly cheap. That’s no easy task. Otherwise it would have been done by now. Somehow they did it and created the leg you see in the above pic. It only costs $20.

Expensive and high-tech prosthetic limbs are nothing new. But what about the majority of the world who can not afford them? Legs like the one above may not make you the bionic man, but they will let you function and walk. For cheap. Pretty awesome.

It’s important for a woman to check her breasts regularly. But doing breast exams at home isn’t easy. And I can’t offer my services to everybody. Even if women check their breasts regularly, I’m sure it can be hard to tell if they are doing it correctly.

The Breastlight can help with the home exam, making your breast checks more accurate. It works by shining a bright red beam of light through the breast tissue. The idea is to look for any dark clusters. That’s where blood may be collecting and leading to malignant lumps. If it works as advertised, it should be a huge comfort to women.