Personal Medical Technology
The Body Fat Scale has prompted as much feedback as the future of the Internet! This will be the last story about it though. Perhaps it is holiday gadget gift giving that is behind the interest or perhaps it is a desire that many people have to focus on their physical condition at the beginning […]
Body Fat Scale – Reader Feedback
Feedback about the Body Fat Scale has ranged from "why bother" to "wow, didn’t know about that". There was also constructive feedback from Tony, who endorsed the need to monitor both weight and body-fat. "I’m 46, with a family history of heart disease. I have mild hypertension, Type II diabetes and I’m slightly overweight and […]
Tanita Body Fat Monitor/Scale
I can’t say that I am in the best possible physical condition, but I do work hard at staying fit. When I received a Tanita Body Fat Monitor/Scale as a gift this week, I hope it was more about my love of gadgets than a different implication. The theory behind having a way to measure […]
WD-40 Origin
Thanks to Chris Forbes at Knovel Corporation for explaining what the 40 in WD-40 means. He says, “It took them 40 attempts to get the water displacing formula worked out”. Chris also says that the name came from “Water Displacement perfected on the 40th try”. They obviously did a really good job because the original […]
Anyone Remember Heathkits?
In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, when I was a teenager, building electronic kits from Heathkit was my favorite hobby. During the Heathkit era which lasted from the late 1940’s through the mid 1980’s, it was possible to build a wide range of things from hi-fi/stereo and ham radio to computers, radio control, and […]
