North Shore firm develops smart fibre to hide hunters

Posted by admin at 28 March 2011

Category: Environmental, Health and Fitness, Recreational

New Fabric

A North Shore business has teamed up with an American company to develop performance enhancing fabric that blocks electromagnetic radiation, making it hard for animals to detect humans nearby. The fabric was initially developed to make it easier for hunters to stalk their prey but is now being used in wetsuits and in medical procedures. FOB Direct was approached by American company Human Energy Concealment Systems (HECS) to develop the technology into a fabric which could be made into hunting suits. It took one year to perfect and an additional fabric has also been developed… Read more

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Caring robot to keep elderly entertained

Posted by admin at 28 March 2011

Category: Computing and Technology, Health and Fitness

Elderly

Christchurch-based gaming company Stickmen Studios has developed a game – Kung Fu Funk – that can help rehabilitate people who have suffered brain injuries. Stickmen Studios and the University of Auckland have teamed up to customise a robot with gaming facilities that will help elderly people stay active through interactive games. The robot, Eldercare, has been developed with the Intelligent Robot Division of South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. The aim of the robot is to reduce the strain on healthcare resources as the aging population… Read more

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Babesafe Mattresses and Mattress Covers for Cot Death (SIDS) Prevention

Posted by admin at 28 March 2011

Category: Health and Fitness, Safety

Many older New Zealanders respect scientist Dr Jim Sprott for undertaking the painstaking forensic research which was crucial to overturning the murder convictions obtained against Arthur Allan Thomas. Many younger New Zealanders have benefited from his research into the cause and prevention of cot death (SIDS). In the 1980s New Zealand had one of the worst cot death rates in the world. Normal, healthy babies were mysteriously, and without warning, dying in their cots, leaving behind grieving parents to mourn them and ask why? Dr Sprott suspected that this silent epidemic was due to… Read more

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Trikes open doors for special children

Posted by admin at 22 January 2011

Category: Health and Fitness, Recreational

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Dozens of New Zealand children with cerebral palsy are enjoying a better quality of life thanks to a new tricycle specially designed to suit their needs. The alternative to a wheelchair is the brainchild of a West Auckland man whose own daughter suffers from the condition. Chris Haverkort started making the trikes 12 years ago for his daughter Brooke because he wanted her to start school with confidence. “They’d be around there on her bike, and they’d all want to have a go,” Haverkort said. Brooke struggles to take a few steps, but on the trike she is a force to be reckoned… Read more

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Scientist Claims Fern Could Help Cure Obesity

Posted by admin at 24 November 2010

Category: Health and Fitness, News

Massey University food scientist Roger Lentle wants to tackle the country’s obesity epidemic by creating yoghurt that makes people feel as though they have eaten half a roast pork. Lentle believes he is on to a winner. The only thing missing is evidence his magic ingredient is safe to consume. “We want to formulate something like yoghurt. You take it in the morning and it makes you immediately feel as though you’ve eaten half a roast suckling pig and you don’t feel hungry.” Lentle said it would be a drug free, sugar free answer to New Zealand’s obesity problem, a problem that kills… Read more

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Naturally4U

Posted by admin at 22 November 2010

Category: Health and Fitness

Joanne

From the Naturally4U website: We are a family company creating and distributing gentle and effective products containing only natural ingredients. Our products don’t contain chemicals, artificial colour, petroleum or lanolin ingredients. They are all environmentally friendly and we don’t test them on animals. Naturally 4 U Clinic / Shop at 17 Lincoln Park Ave, Massey. Contact us should you wish to make an appointment. For a Holisitc Health Diagnosis Consultation. Or an Energy Wellness “Rife” Treatment… Read more

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A bit of Kiwi Ingenuity puts Coast-to-Coast athletes on map

Posted by admin at 21 October 2010

Category: Computing and Technology, Health and Fitness, News

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A device used to radio-track animals will be used on humans for the first time during the 23rd Speight’s Coast to Coast race this weekend, in a world-leading move to map competitors’ locations. The units will be used by New Zealand television production company LeggeWork for a documentary on this year’s inaugural World Team Championship race, tracking the competitors’ routes on the gruelling 243 kilometre event. In what is believed to be a world first for endurance sports telecoverage, the competitors’ routes and times during the one-day event will be displayed on… Read more

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Kiwi Ingenuity comes into play overseas

Posted by admin at 21 October 2010

Category: Business Innovation, Health and Fitness

They may be New Zealand’s sporting rivals but England’s cricket team and Japan’s rugby team have turned to Kiwi ingenuity to boost their training – using technology developed by Lower Hutt firm VX Sport. The firm’s GPS units and software can be used to monitor the training and performance of athletes and teams – providing detailed data on heart rate, speed, distance, location and can even measure “body force” such as step rate and hip sway. Chief executive Richard Snow says the firm has spent $2 million developing the product, which is designed to be vastly more… Read more

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Earthquake Survival Tips: “Triangle of Life”

Posted by admin at 12 October 2010

Category: Health and Fitness, Safety

EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP’S ARTICLE ON THE: ‘TRIANGLE OF LIFE’ My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world’s most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake. I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from many countries. I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for two years. I have worked at every major disaster in… Read more

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The Free Range Child

Posted by admin at 12 October 2010

Category: Health and Fitness

This article, while slightly dated, is more relevant now than ever. -Ed The Free Range Child Tralee Pearce, Globe and Mail
May 13, 2008 Cleone Grasham’s days of shuttling her three daughters hither and yon to sports, choir and other organized activities are over. The Toronto mother has scaled it back to one gymnastics class for one of her kids – and that’s it. “It was wearing on everybody,” says Ms. Grasham of her family’s once-packed schedule. “Everything was late and dinner was always rushed, and by the end of the day no one seemed to have done as much as they… Read more

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