Healthcare digital trends

People struggling with their weight make easy targets for scams. Fat-busting pills, fad diets, and workout gadgets come and go as their popularity is overwhelmed by their ineffectiveness. Now a line of clothing purportedly tricks your body into losing weight by “hacking your metabolism” — but are the only hacks here those selling the phony technology? “This would be too uncomfortable to tolerate for the many, many months of wearing Thin Ice that would be required to produce any significant weight loss.” The Thin Ice Weight Loss Clothing Line , recently backed on Indiegogo by more than half a million dollars, is designed to trick your body into thinking you’re cold and burning fat to keep you warm. The team behind Thin Ice is kicking off the line with two items to target areas of your body with a lot of thermoreceptors (nerves that detect temperature changes). The first is a tank top, dubbed a “vest.” The second is a pair of insoles. Peltier cooling strips (used to cool … [Read more...] about Is Thin Ice ‘Weight-Loss Clothing’ Too Good to Be True? | Digital Trends

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 is part of Lenovo’s ongoing laptop deals , with a massive 50% discount that slashes its price to $1,520 from its original price of $3,039. That’s $1,519 in savings for a device that’s made by one of the best laptop brands . It’s unclear how long this lowered price will last, so before it goes back to normal, you should hurry and make the purchase. Why you should buy the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 is already out, but its predecessor, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 , remains a worthwhile purchase, especially with this 50% discount from Lenovo. You’ll get the 11th-generation Intel Core i5 processor, integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics, and 16GB of RAM, which are more than enough to multitask between daily activities such as doing online research, making reports, and using a communications app. The laptop’s 14-inch WUXGA display with narrow bezels offers sharp details and bright colors, so … [Read more...] about Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon gets $1,519 price cut (seriously) | Digital Trends

This Fool , a Hulu original, premieres on the streaming service this Friday, August 12. Set in the working class neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles, This Fool , is a straight-talking half-hour comedy staring Chris Estrada, who also is a co-creator of the show. Estrada’s character, Julio Lopez, works at a non-profit gang rehab called Hugs Not Thugs. Thirty years old, Julio still lives at home, dates his high school girlfriend, and clashes with older cousin Luis, a former gang member and newly-released ex-con. Here’s how you can watch the premiere of This Fool on Friday. Contents How to watch This Fool in the U.S. How to watch This Fool from abroad How to watch This Fool in the U.S. If you subscribe to the Hulu streaming service, you’re good to go, just log in and enjoy This Fool and any other content new on Hulu . If you don’t subscribe to Hulu, you can still watch This Fool for free in the U.S. by signing up for a . Hulu free trial … [Read more...] about How to Watch the Premiere of This Fool on Friday | Digital Trends

Previous Next 1 of 15 @WallyGPX ) has been drawing giant virtual geoglyphs across the heart of Maryland — and they get more impressive with each passing year. So far he’s made over 361 glyphs, ridden somewhere around 6,000 miles, and had more than a few strange encounters along the way. We caught up with him for a quick Q&A to find out what drives him, what his creative process is like, and what he’s got planned for the future. Digital Trends: Can you tell me how all this started? Wally GPX : It all began nearly seven years ago when I got my first smartphone. Like most of us I suspect, I tinkered with it to see what it could do, and I found myself marveling at what it was capable of. My old clamshell model had a GPS navigation feature (which I was already fascinated with), but it wasn’t until my cousin tipped me off to “Geocaching” that it all seemingly fell into place. I quickly made the jump from … [Read more...] about Meet Wally GPX, Who Makes Art By Tracking His Bike Rides | Digital Trends

The startup estimates that users can burn up to 500 or even 1,000 calories per day simply by wearing it. These are lofty claims, even if they are only estimates, but apparently there’s some science to back up what the Thin Ice purports to do. We took a closer look at this so-called fat-trimming gizmo to understand how it might pull all that off. Cool as a fan Thin Ice purports to stimulate thermoreceptors in the body, to trick it into thinking it’s colder than it really is. Since the body naturally burns calories to produce heat to stave off the cold, the wearer’s metabolism gets a little boost, and the weight starts to slowly fall off over time — or at least that’s how the vest’s creators tell it. Thin Ice has faced a fair share of criticism over its somewhat shaky scientific foundations , and to this day there are people that claim it’s an elaborate hoax . Part of the reason it’s such a contentious topic is that the vest’s fat burning technique seems completely … [Read more...] about Thin Ice: How does a vest burn fat by cooling you down? | Digital Trends