Obsessive mobile users are suffering from phantom vibrations in anticipation of new messages. Something we ourselves suffer from time to time, people are imagining their mobiles vibrating in their pocket when in reality they are doing nothing of the...

Get ready with those new year resolutions. If one of them is going to include trying for a fitter, healthier you in 2012, Jawbone is here to help. Jawbone is best known as the maker of excellent Bluetooth headsets and a great portable speaker, the...

Jawbone, maker of funky headsets, has announced its latest product, Up. Think of Up as like one of those charity wristbands that have been popular over the last few years, except much cleverer.

And that's because Up features a sophisticated...

Researches at Oxford University have concluded that Tetris has psychological healing qualities after studying the effects of the game on people who were exposed to stressful images.

Subjects in the study were shown a video featuring disturbing...

Checking whether you're fat and unfit or skinny and healthy is about to get a whole lot easier thanks to a new set of bathroom scales from Salter.

The new HoMedics MiBody 360 range is a set of scales, blood pressure monitor and pedometer that...

Do you feel like you haven't got enough plastic in your living room? Are you not at all concerned about the state of the north Pacific gyre? Then you're probably a potential purchaser of Firebox's new Wii Fit accessories.

There's two on offer....

Finally - an excuse to snog your iPhone, pretending that you're practicing CPR. St John Ambulance, the volunteer paramedic charity, has launched an app for medical enthusiasts that helps you learn your first aid skills.

The charity is pitching...

Welcome back to Future Week on Pocket-lint. We thought we'd leave our final piece of Day 1 to the experts to have their say on what life will be like in 2015. We took five different future gazers and strategists with different specialities and fields...

Latest reports from Japan indicate that the country is under the spell of a new craze - mood-altering therapeutic ringtones - which claim to be able to solve a number of life's woes; from motivation problems to improving your skin.

They're...

Japanese pensioners are set to get levitating chairs that work like hovercrafts, suspending the occupant on a cushion of air and allowing them to zoom around with none of that pesky friction messing around with things.

The device has been created...

It's such a hassle to carry around both a mobile phone and a cigarette lighter, isn't it? No, it's not. But that hasn't stopped a Chinese company building what it claims is the "world's hottest cigarette lighter mobile phone" - the "Machismo".

The...

Swallowable pills that contain sensors could be just around the corner. A company called Proteus Biomedical is working with Qualcomm to build both pills and patches that can monitor your vital signs and send them to a mobile device.

The idea...

A startup called RidRx has created an adaptor that'll allow you to mod an old stethoscope into a fully-functioning iPhone or iPod touch-enabled version of the heartbeat detector. It comes with a phone dock/holder and an app that will record and analyse...

An iPhone application is in development by Australian and American doctors which analyses the sound of your coughs to provide a diagnosis of a cold, flu, pneumonia or any other respiratory disease that might be assailing you.

Different ailments...

Philips has created a "pill" that contains a microprocessor, battery, wireless radio, pump and a drug reservoir.

The idea behind the intelligent pill is that it can work out where it is in the body before it releases the medication for optimal...