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Sonic Alert Sweetheart Alarm Clock

This Valentine’s Day, give your girl a special item that would benefit the two of you. Give her the Sweetheart alarm clock and you will see the effectiveness of this clock. Your girlfriend will surely wake up on time with this and possibly never get late again on your date.

The Sweetheart alarm clock looks like a simple bedside clock. With its heart shaped design and screaming pink color, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hannah Montana has this in her room. Innocent on the outside but crazy loud on the inside. When activated, the alarm can get as loud as 113db or like a car horn! Imagine hearing that on your bedside, I don’t know if you will still fall asleep. There is also tone and volume control if you feel like the full 113db force is too much or if a higher tone is preferred. There are bright LED lights that blink along the alarm to illuminate the room and alert the person visually.

The snooze button in the middle of the heart will postpone the alarm for 9 minutes. A 9V battery can be placed under the clock to save your settings in case of power outage so the alarm will still go off as power is resumed. However, this battery won’t serve as a power source for the alarm. Plus, there is the Super Shaker that can be placed under the mattress to surely make your girlfriend stand-up and get ready.


Get the Sweetheart Alarm Clock here.

Valentine’s Gift: Heart Mouse & Mouse Pad Set

heart1Usually, a guy is the most common form a geek. But, there are also girls out there. The thing is, it could really be hard thinking of something to give her that reflects your appreciation of her geekiness. The heart mouse pad and mouse would surely show that.

The heart mouse and mouse pad set is a very nice gift this Valentine’s day. The very nice design on the pad would surely tell her how you feel. It has sweet words on it like “I Love You”, “Forever”, and “Love” with heart designs all around it. It also looks clean and modern so she could bring it at her office to show everyone how loving you are. The mouse on the other hand also looks nice with its heart shaped body and transparent red color. The laser underneath it sure looks great as it flash red lights all around it.

Available at Amazon for $16.90, this surely is a great Valentine’s gift. Be sure to hurry on your purchase though since you still got a few days left till V-day.

Valentine’s Gift: Heart Shaped iPod Earbuds

heartThis Valentine’s season, forgive yourself for being all sweet and mushy with your partner. Take a walk, watch some DVDs, or just cuddle up. Well, whatever it may be, it is always a good thing to make it match with your earbuds.

These heart shaped earbuds from Decor Craft Inc is a nice way to make your Valentine’s day a little more fun for that special someone. This pair of earbuds is a sure way to make your trendy iPod into a cool and hip gadget for Valentine’s.

Of course, even though people from Decor Craft Inc is specifically marketing this for the Ipod crowd, it still uses a 3.5mm jack which is pretty much the standard when it comes to electronic devices. Therefore, you could also use these sweet earbuds for your PDA, mp3 players, portable dvd players, laptop or a phone. Silicone tips are also included which is fit for adults and kids too. Wow, the LeapFrog “smartphone” for tots and this pair of earbuds sure is a great combo!

When the time that Valentine’s day has already passed, you could always use these earbuds just for novelty which will surely catch the attention of passers by.

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A Recellularized Heart – A New Heart with Old Cells

Heart failure is a disease that is currently affecting over 22 million people worldwide and that number is expected to rise as the “BabyBoomers” become senior citizens. There are a number of breakthrough medications, repair procedures, and even complete heart transplants that can extend the patients life, but most diagnosed die within five years despite our current defenses. Doris Taylor a Biologist at the University of Minnesota has created a new innovation to the fight against heart disease.

The Recellularized Heart is a donor heart that has had the donor cells removed and replaced with the patients cells. The process entails flushing the cells out with a type of detergent that leaves on the skeletal looking extracellular matrix. Then the progenitor cells from the recipient are injected into the matrix thus reducing the risk of incompatibility. Amazingly the cells begin to divide and form tissues thus creating a new heart that is better than before and 100% compatible with the recipient

Human trials are currently underway and the pre-results are showing to be positive. If all goes as planned this technology could be put to use in transplants within a decade. This is by far the largest stride in producing a viable transplant that is a universal solution to transplant rejection. The recellularization of a heart gives hope to other types of organ transplantation as well. Right now Taylor is dedicated to recellularizing a heart, her goal is to see this process being used to save millions of lives and give heart disease patients meaningful recoveries.

I “Heart” you

Now this one is just so freakin’ adorable!! He may look a little bit weird at first but you’ll easily fall for his puppy dog eyes that flutters when Heart, that’s the robot’s name, is touched.

Puppeteer turned robotics engineer David McGoran from The University of the West of England is the esteemed maker of Heart Robot. Heart is a robot that can feel human emotion or rather feel humans’ emotion. He, I tagged him as a he first time I saw him on TV, looks fragile as he is quite small and “bandaged”. He has bony, plastic-like fingers that has the capability to grip your hand. He looks like a small cute hobbit who has eyes that can melt anyone’s ice-cold heart. Of course, he has his very own red light “heart” hidden underneath a see-through plastic cover that “beats” when he is touched.

Heart is covered in sensors that has the ability to respond when touched and when a human moves. If treated badly or roughly, Heart will tense and his cute little eyes will blink rapidly in alarm and his grip tightens. He also recognizes when you raise your voice at him. Once he eases up on you, you’ll feel his body relax and the beating of his heart will slow down.

Heart may just be one robot but hopefully we’ll all have a Heart that we can cuddle up with and who’ll help us feel more human when we sometimes forget that we are one.