Vicks Baby Safe Rectal Thermometer

Taking a hyper-active toddler’s temperature is not always easy. After struggling to get a temperature reading, wouldn’t you feel frustrated wondering if it’s really accurate?

Technology made a lot of things easier and faster but it doesn’t always make progress in areas that matter most. When it comes to taking your baby’s temperature, good old rectal thermometer is way more consistent and accurate than any other fancy ear, pacifier or forehead strip thermometers.

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Messenger Bag Director’s Chair

Carry a chair in stylish, portable and lightweight messenger bag form. Check out The Messenger Bag Director’s Chair.

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  • Portable director’s chair folds into a portable easy-to-carry messenger bag.
  • Chair mode dimension: 34″ H x 22″ W x 17″ D
  • Messenger bag mode dimension: 3 3/4″ H x 20″ W x 12″ D
  • Weights only 9 lbs. but capable of supporting up to 250 lbs.
  • Constructed with rugged aluminium, steel frame and 600-denier nylon mesh seat.
  • Superior tautness and strength provides support even during prolonged periods of sitting.
  • Armrests come with integrated cup holder and two pockets

EagleTec USB Nano Flash Drive

Touted as one of the smallest thumb drives in the world today, EagleTec USB Nano Flash Drive is so tiny you can leave it attached to your notebook without even realising it’s physically there.

As far as I can recall, I’ve broken two USB thumb drive by accidently snapping and bending it. My habit of moving my notebook around the house with protruding thumb drives attached is to blame. So when I saw this miniature thumb key, maybe their fate could have been avoided.

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Leapfrog Tag Reading System

LeapFrog® Tag Reading System is an interactive reading system that brings books to life. It makes reading and learning fun for your toddler.

Basically the Tag Reader is a pen-like touch-and-talk reading device that reads aloud words as your toddler touches the page of specially printed storybooks. By hearing the words and images with every touch, toddlers experience an enjoyable multisensory reading experience. Hence greatly improving your toddler’s speech, comprehension, vocabulary and pronunciation development.

Let’s face it. Although parents and child quality reading time is crucial in their growing years, Leapfrog’s Tag Reading system is a great subtitute at times when you’re just too busy to read to your child.

In The Pocket Baby seat

As a parent, I can totally relate to people complaining how much baby equipment is lugged around when leaving home. I’ve seen people bringing along heavy baby seats just in case the places they go to doesn’t provide baby chairs. Then again, I bet most of them haven’t heard of In The Pocket Baby Seat! Imagine a portable, lightweight, foldable baby seat that is small enough to fit your pocket. In The Pocket Baby seat uses straps and D-rings to form a harness to ensure your baby or toddler is firmly seated.

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Scallop Imaging 180-degree distortion-free surveillance camera

One of the biggest visual drawbacks of 180 degrees surveillance video cameras is poor and distorted results in the shape of fisheye imagery.

Thanks to Scallop Imaging, a division of Tenebraex Corporation, this real world problem is solved. By using five sensors in its 180 degrees “Digital Window” surveillance camera, videos recorded are free from fisheye distortion or blind spots. Quality of video recordings is very good thanks to its 7 megapixel resolution and video stream compressed using the best compression algorithm.

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No Cuff Blood Pressure Monitor

Slip your arm through the device and have your blood pressure read. Unlike the common old-school round the arm inflatable device,  No Cuff Blood Pressure Monitor ( $199.95 ) is easy to use, easy to read, and highly accurate. It comes with a detachable LCD display (large and easy to see) so you can conveniently take it with you to the doctor’s office. There’s an irregular-pulse indicator, an alarm to remind you when to take your blood pressure, and an arm-movement detection indicator to keep you perfectly still for the most accurate reading.

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