No Cuff automated blood pressure monitor proves that you can go home again

What if you could relive all the magical moments of your childhood, like playing with the blood pressure machine at your local supermarket? Now, thanks to the personal, portable No Cuff Blood Pressure Monitor, you can. Just slide your hand in and press the button to inflate -- it's that simple. In addition to the hours of fun you're sure to have as you feel the device lightly squeeze your arm, the blood pressure reader comes with a detachable LCD display that stores as many as ninety readings, offers AM/PM systolic averaging, an irregular pulse indicator, an alarm, and an arm-movement indicator to keep you from lousing up the reading. Not bad for $200, eh? And if you're feeling generous, maybe you could share this with a sick relative, an elderly neighbor, or anyone who might need to need to check their blood pressure regularly. That is, unless their underwear already does it for them.

[Via Engadget German]

[Ryback @ Dec 17th 2008 4:29AM]

Portable? It looks 3 times as big as the regular sphygmomanometer my doctor has in her office. Her lacks a handle, maybe that's what constitutes the portableness..?

[onepinksheep @ Dec 17th 2008 6:32AM]

With this one you don't need to bring a doctor around with you, hence the portable.

[Jeff @ Dec 17th 2008 10:53AM]

onepinksheep:

Except that there are a myriad of automatic portable blood pressure monitors the same size as the one your doctor uses and that cost about $150 less than this. And the great thing is they're available at any drug store.

This is kind of like if HP put out a computer that weighed 15 pounds and looked like a desktop with a flip-up screen, called it a "portable computer" and sold it for $4,000. That would have been amazing like, 20 years ago. Today, it'd be like, "why?"

[henry @ Dec 17th 2008 4:44AM]

when I was a kid? who are you kidding? I'm almost 30 and I still play with that thing when I go to the grocery store!

[rederikus @ Dec 17th 2008 6:05AM]

Go henry. 30 outside, 12 inside. Sounds like me 'cept I ain;t 30 no more.

Pity this thing ain't wireless too then it could be used for remote monitoring and data capture/analysis on a PC.

[rita hainsworth @ Dec 17th 2008 5:26AM]

Part of the Stormtroopers medical line.

[Anonymous coward @ Dec 17th 2008 5:55AM]

Am I the only one who see's an oldschool mac shell?

[Andrew Yeomans @ Dec 17th 2008 6:35AM]

$200! wow!
For £10 you can get this http://www.lloydspharmacy.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=90&mpe_id=10610&productId=15556&intv_id=10560&evtype=CpgnClick&langId=-1&catalogId=1008&ddkey=http:ClickInfo which does the job.

[Kurian @ Dec 17th 2008 6:58AM]

They just need to close it up all the way and make it like Iron Hide's gun.

[Aaron @ Dec 17th 2008 7:09AM]

At least this one doesn't look like crap. They *do* make portable ones that fit in small cases. The biggest problem that I see with this is that it is far far too small for many patients. I've most certainly had to use a thigh cuff on patients of mine who are morbidly obese, something that's become quite common here in the states...Maybe they should only market this size in Europe.

[kingu @ Dec 17th 2008 8:59AM]

Goes without saying, or trying: If you cant fit your hand in this you know something is wrong.

[Anthony @ Dec 17th 2008 7:27AM]

Now you can do all the pumping, from the comfort of your own home !

lol :]

[Berg @ Dec 17th 2008 7:30AM]

When I was a kid I used to grab a bag of chips and stuff it in the cuff, then turn the machine on and run away.
Not as funny at home.

[TareX @ Dec 17th 2008 8:06AM]

I'm getting it for my parents when I fly back... hopefully.

[EUPHOR1C @ Dec 17th 2008 8:32AM]

Finally! Production Mega Man armor!

[bill cant fart @ Dec 17th 2008 8:39AM]

When I saw the picture I thought it was a futuristic guillotine for arms.

[Pete @ Dec 17th 2008 8:46AM]

Needing a doctor for a sphygmomanometer? Ever seen a nurse or medical assistant use one? They're not exactly MD or DO. Teaching someone to use one takes all of five minutes. After practicing on about 20-30 patients, you get pretty good at it.

Never mind the fact that you can get a much smaller automatic home BP device with a few different sized cuffs for under $50.

[kingu @ Dec 17th 2008 8:57AM]

Blood pressure machines at the supermarket? ...

[Michael Glatz @ Dec 17th 2008 8:58AM]

Does anyone know the contact information, so that I can order a few or these units?

[Timm @ Dec 17th 2008 9:14AM]

No cuff???

[josejrp @ Dec 17th 2008 9:43AM]

I must be missing something... sure, it doesn't have an attached cuff, but it looks like it has an inflatable section over your arm - wouldn't THAT be considered a cuff? Also, I can go to Costco and buy a reader for $50 that automatically inflates, takes three readings a minute apart from each other, and gives me the average, keeping a number of readings stored in memory and separated by user... what makes this one so special, other than the fact there appears to be no cable between the reader and the arm unit?

[tekd @ Dec 17th 2008 9:50AM]

For $200 you might as well buy a real blood pressure cuff and a decent stethescope (most cheap stethescopes aren't very good) and then you'll be able to do a whole buncha other stuff, like listen for heart murmurs on yourself or whatever.

Admittedly it's a little bit hard to inflate your cuff with the other hand while making sure the stethescope is still up against your vein, but if you're flexible it can be done =p

[ark_v2 @ Dec 17th 2008 2:17PM]

Why would I use this huge thing when the "supermarket" ones are 4 times smaller and do the same thing.

[Inept @ Dec 19th 2008 5:57PM]

It's a cutting edge automated Emo cutter.