If you're the sort who unconsciously twitches your leg when lost in thought, only to snap out of it abruptly when you realize the table in the conference room is shaking and everyone's scowling your way, you might be interested in this upcoming product from Maywa Denki, the crazy folks who love inventing "
nonsense machines." It's called Yurex, a USB-enabled garter that straps to your leg and counts the number of times you twitch during the day, displaying your running tally on a 10-digit LCD. When you get home you can sync the device up to a PC, which will calculate your own personal rhythm and, get this, create a little song based on your "creative beat pattern." The idea is you can listen to this song, twitch your leg in concert, and boost your brain power to new heights! You'll even be able to chart your restlessness against others online once the things go on-sale in January but, with only 3,000 of them set to be made, you'd better get that order-clicking finger moving too.
[Via
medGadget]
posted December 12th 2008 10:49AM
That second picture gives me the willies.
Me too. Something about it is just wrong.
To make things worse, it kinda looks like an arm with a foot instead of a hand.
Yurex?
They should have called it "Twitch Twitch Revolution"...
Now does it also track the amount of calories you burnt doing that?
I thought I had flexible toes :\
try,try!
I was going to say something else but I can't even think of it now with that giant leg staring at me. Well loitering, staring whatever the hell legs do.
I twitch my legs a lot during the day, but I never thought about how many times. Hmmm I wonder how many times I do. The looks of it, wouldn't you need one for each leg?
Either way, this would fall in the crap pile of USB junk devices.
If i can't have a couple more digits on that dispaly I hope it recognizes when it turns over.
I would keep this far from any airport. I doubt anyone would believe this thing is an RLS meter.
Sadly, this is really interesting to me. I love tracking stats like that, and I do tend to twitch my leg when I'm not thinking about it. I'm just hoping that the end of my life will be like an RPG, where I'll get to see a long list of the number of times I've done each thing in my life.
At my time of death, I'd like to laugh over the final tally of times I downranked iEye.
Actually Engadget should incorporate that feature.
+1 on the iRank iEye down system. :)
Should put some piezoelectric components in it to charge your cell phone, laptop, etc. I am curious how twitchy I am though. Interesting notes on the read link:
the interactive portions of the site "twtch" when you mouse over them
the video link leads to some somewhat disturbing/creepy spycam footage of people twitchin thier legs in public. WEIRD!!!
is it going to be called the ovaries?
So instead of getting rid of a bad habit they make a system to encourage it?!?
Not encourage, but track. Just like a pedometer, it helps you track something that you already have a habit of doing. I have a pedometer on my phone but it does not encourage me to walk more than I have to.
ah yes , it's the what the hell gadget of the day.