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Thumb Sweatbands for Gamers

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Now that gaming is possibly going to be an Olympic sport… or e-sport as they say, it’s time gamers had proper sporting gear just like every other athlete out there on the world stage. A gamers lifeblood is their thumbs. So you’ve got to keep those digits dry and safe because hardcore gaming can really make you work up a sweat. Enter Thumb Sweatbands.

With this set of tiny sweatbands (helpfully labelled as P1 and P2), your thumbs will no longer get sweaty and slip off your controller, so you can be the champ. Just imagine the competitive edge you’ll have over those non-sweatbanded gamers out there- victory is yours! You can also use them to wipe the sweat off your other fingers, in case you’re the sweaty ring finger type. Or just order 5 sets and wear one on each finger. You can never be too safe.

Thumb Sweatbands for Gamers
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6 Tech-Driven Sweat-Busting Solutions

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Product Innovations Reduce Profuse Sweating Problems Today’s breed of tech-driven product innovations help address an age-old, embarrassing problem: excessive sweating.  No matter the season or...

This Humanoid Robot Does Pushups, Sweats

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One of the major problems with robots is heat. If things get too hot it can start to affect performance. And while robots have a variety of active cooling systems, they can always be improved upon. That’s why researchers at the University of Tokyo’s JSK Lab are experimenting with using sweating as a cooling concept for their Kengoro humanoid robot.

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The roboperspiration is deionized water that drips onto Kengoro’s 108 motors, cooling them down through evaporation. Sweating allows the robot to do push-ups for 11 minutes without overheating, which is pretty impressive. Your robot at home can’t do that. It’s even more impressive when you consider that it can run for half a day on just one cup of water. Can you even do that?

Kengoro has no skin, so it sweats from its skeletal structure. The skeleton is made by laser sintering, a process similar to high-end 3D printing that allows metal of various densities to be built into complex shapes. Channels of less dense aluminum run through Kengoro’s frame which act like a sponge, retaining water and making sure the “sweat” drops onto the motors instead of all over the floor. It’s an amazing design.

Well, if they are going to kill us one day, at least they will have to work up a sweat while hunting us down.

[via iEEE Spectrum via Gizmodo]

miraDry Zaps Your Pits to Stop Sweating

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Sweating is part of the summer. No matter where you are, especially with the heatwaves of this year, you’ve probably sweat quite a bit over these last few months. If you tend to sweat a lot from your pits, and would like it to stop soaking your clothes, you could always microwave them so that they completely stop sweating.

miradry sweat procedure dry

miraDry uses microwave energy to zap your armpits and kill off 22,000 to 30,000 sweat glands in that area, reducing the amount of sweat that you generate when you get hot. It’s supposed to work in 90% of patients and reduce sweating by 82%. The effect is supposed to last for a year, but you’ll need a couple of sessions for this to work well.

Aside from evaporating your sweat glands, it will also evaporate some of your cash as this procedure costs $3,000. For some reason, it doesn’t sound like a good idea to mess with you body’s biological processes this way. What happens if you overheat? Sweating is a nature’s way of cooling us down.

miradry sweat procedure dry handset

[via DVice]