There are a few non-invasive light-based oral cancer detection systems in development and it will be exciting if they pass FDA muster.
"...can give the dentist an edge in fighting cancers..." Slight tweak on your report: Dentists are probably your best bet for catching oral cancer early, but for treatment (early or late) one would go to an oncologist...
In any case, stop smoking and stop using your SKOAL.
Kudos for thinking about the problem, but this device is a design study on how not to do design studies; this is the sort of thing that gives I.D. a bad name. I could go on about the problems with such a device, but I'll limit my gripes to:
1. Form over function. Power strips are usually hidden so why is the form so important in this application? The only supposedly functional aspect of this piece are the "swivel labels", but these would be immediately rendered un-functional when all the devices are plugged in; the wires would block a clear view of the "swivel labels".
2. Cost. This device has only 5 sockets and would cost what? $20, $30 each? For $15, one could go out and get two strips with 20 sockets and some post-it flags for about $15. All my devices plugged in, labelled, ready to go.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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With apologies to Mr. Nimeh,
File under: Too little, Too late.