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Imagine putting a few whole eggs into a machine before bed, setting a time, and waking up to freshly cooked eggs. No cracking. No frying pan to watch. No standing over the stove. That's the idea behind CHEFFY E.G.O.R. , a countertop breakfast robot designed to crack and cook eggs automatically. And CHEFFY isn't being shy about what it claims the machine can do. According to the company's official product page, E.G.O.R. can prepare eggs seven ways, including sunny side up, over easy, over medium, over hard, and three levels of boiled eggs. It can also crack and fry up to two eggs at once. Cheffy More surprisingly, CHEFFY says its patent-pending mechanism produces “No shells” and “Cracks perfectly every time.” Cheffy That raises two interesting questions. Can a machine really crack raw eggs without routinely dropping shell fragments into breakfast? And how can it make something like an over-easy egg without anyone standing there to flip it? The engineering turns out to be m...

Food logging sounds simple until you actually try to do it every day. Open an app. Find the food. Estimate the portion. Add the sauce. Remember the snack. Repeat at dinner. ODYSS N1 wants to remove most of that work. The small camera-equipped pendant is designed to watch meals from your point of view, recognize when you are eating, identify food, estimate portions, and turn the result into an automatic food journal. And one number immediately stands out. ODYSS says N1 can achieve more than 99% eating-event accuracy. That sounds remarkably precise. But there is an important distinction hidden inside that number: Detecting that you are eating is not the same as accurately measuring how much you ate. And once we get to portion size and calories, the science becomes much more difficult. What Does the ODYSS N1 Actually Do? ODYSS describes N1 as an AI dietary necklace built around continuous, first-person sensing rather than the usual “take a photo of your plate” workflow. According to the c...

No watch. No smart ring. No chest strap. Anker says its soundcore SleepLab Pro can sit on your nightstand and track your heart rate, breathing, movement, and sleep stages while you sleep. It does this with 60 GHz millimeter-wave radar . That sounds strange at first. Radar is something most of us associate with cars, aircraft, or weather systems — not measuring a heartbeat from across a bedroom. But there are really two separate questions here. Can 60 GHz radar detect heart rate and breathing without touching the body? And if it can, does that mean the SleepLab Pro itself is accurate? Those questions have very different answers. What Does the SleepLab Pro Actually Claim to Measure? The SleepLab Pro is more than a bedside speaker. According to soundcore, its Pro model adds contactless sleep sensing from the nightstand and reports sleep stages, breathing, heart rate, movement, and bedroom conditions without requiring a watch or ring. The company also says it can use those signals to adap...

Smartwatches can already track heart rate, sleep, workouts, and even blood oxygen. So most of us have gotten used to the idea that a small sensor on the wrist can tell us quite a lot about what is happening inside the body. But glucose feels different. Checking blood glucose usually means either pricking a finger or wearing a continuous glucose monitor with a sensor inserted under the skin. Both approaches ultimately depend on measuring glucose from blood or interstitial fluid. Then there is the Actxa Spark Band . Actxa says its new wearable can provide an AI Glucose Snapshot in about one minute , without a needle or implanted sensor. The band is designed to show an estimated glucose range and an indicative value, and users can also take snapshots around meals to observe how their glucose-related patterns change. That immediately raises the obvious question: If the Spark Band never samples blood, how can it know anything about glucose at all? The answer is more interesting than I expec...

A box that promises to sanitize your phone, keys, glasses, toys and other everyday objects without sprays or wipes is easy to understand. Put the item inside, close the lid, wait 10 minutes, and let ultraviolet light do the work. Puritize makes that idea unusually concrete. Its Home UV-C sanitizer is marketed as killing “99.9% of all bacteria, viruses, & germs,” and the company publishes a table of laboratory results with reductions that reach—and in several cases exceed—99.9%. That immediately makes this more interesting than a generic “UV kills germs” claim. There is real testing on the product. The question is whether those tests support the broad word all , especially when the same device is promoted for complex objects with cracks, curves and hidden surfaces. After tracing the numbers, I think the core claim has substantial support under tested conditions. The broader consumer wording goes further than the evidence. What Puritize actually claims On the Puritize Home pro...

“Sleep improved 41%” is the kind of number that makes a wellness-device claim feel unusually concrete. It is not just “may support sleep” or “helps you relax.” Pulsetto puts a percentage on the outcome and a timeline on the result: four weeks. That made this claim more interesting than the usual vagus-nerve marketing language. A precise number should have a traceable origin, so I went looking for it. In this case, there really is a study of the exact Pulsetto device behind the headline. But the study design matters just as much as the percentage. The short version is that the 41% figure is not invented. It appears to reflect an improvement in a sleep questionnaire during a small four-week Pulsetto study. What it does not show is that Pulsetto caused a 41% improvement compared with placebo, or that a typical buyer should expect their sleep to improve by that amount.

When I first saw the HigherDOSE Red Light Showerhead, my first thought had nothing to do with science. It was more like: Okay, that looks ridiculously cool. Turn on the shower and a ring of red LEDs lights up the water, bathing the whole space in a deep red glow. It looks less like a normal bathroom and more like a wellness spa from the future. Then I saw the price: $599 in the U.S. at the time of writing. That brought me back to earth pretty quickly. But this isn't just an expensive showerhead with mood lighting. HigherDOSE says the device combines 650 nm red light, 850 nm near-infrared light, and a 10-stage water filtration system . The company connects those features to some fairly attractive benefits: better circulation, healthier-looking skin and scalp, brighter skin, and softer hair. It also lists an irradiance of 200 mW/cm² and 5-, 10-, and 15-minute timer settings. HigherDOSE's official product page ( HigherDOSE ) That gave me a much better question than simply asking ...