Awesome Health

The Kickstarter-funded Maxx Bench is an exercise bench with a foot-operated hydraulic system that lets you adjust the height of the bench or lower it completely should you get stuck under weights. The bench automatically returns to its default height after use.

A mechanical white noise generator, aka a horizontal fan. Its pitch video is funny, but it all boils down to this: does the sound of an electric fan help you fall asleep? If it does, Snooz is for you. You can adjust its tone and volume manually or with its app.

They may look tacky, but Magical Sticky Wipes are handy cleaning accessories. They’re washable microfiber cloths with a reusable adhesive back, so they’re always there when you need them. Each pack comes with two wipes.

New York Magazine’s scientifically-proven tips to help you power through a day even if you didn’t get enough sleep. They’re pretty simple actually: ration your coffee, get some sunlight and stay away from sugary foods.

T.brush comes in seven designs, but it’s not just about style. It lasts up to two weeks per charge and recharges up to 3x faster than other electric toothbrushes, its carrying case doubles as a charger and it has built-in 2min and 30s timers.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is not merely about having habits or preoccupations. Neither is it a cute affectation; it is a serious and crippling condition. TED-Ed breaks down the ailment’s basics.

A delightfully smooth and light coffee that helps you get your day started right – packing B vitamins, potassium and other nutrients you might otherwise skip. Available in light, medium and dark roasts, and three delicious flavors.

Keith Londsdale lost parts of his face to cancer. The first three masks he wore neither fit nor looked well. Fortunately his doctor made him a much better mask based on a 3D scan of his son’s face. Image by the Daily Mirror.

From the makers of the Kitchen Safe comes the kSafe, which helps curb bad habits in more ways. You can set it to open on a timer (up to 100 days), only on certain times, after you visit a certain location or after doing physical activity.

Having a great day? Just chillin’ and relaxin’? Let AsapScience ruin things for you. This video runs down all the horrible things that happen when you sit down. Yep, as soon as you sit down. The only funny thing here is the ill-suited music.

Sis, do you even – oh. Grandmother and competitive weightlifter Willie Murphy started training with 5lb. weights at her local YMCA. Now the 77-year old can deadlift 215lb. That’s more than twice her weight.

A slim smartwatch that tracks heart rate, steps, calories burned, UV exposure, sleep and has a guided workout. It also receives text messages and other notifications, and has a built in GPS. Works w/ Windows Phone, iOS and Android.

(NSFW: Language) Before you go trick or treating, remember to take it easy on the human race’s favorite drug. Sadly, like other lucrative industries, bribery and misinformation will ensure that sugar pushers stay open for business.

In 2012 DDB Shanghai made this awareness campaign about Internet and computer addiction. The ad agency made a keyboard-shaped sculpture showing the likenesses of addicts and their loved ones trapped in the keys.

Prep Pad is a weighing scale that, together with an iPad app, tells you the nutritional values of food that you put on it. You can create or get advice on nutritional goals, save combinations of food and more. Works with iPad 3 and up.

Men’s Health manages to take an embarassing subject that you probably never cared to know about, and turns it into an amusing and informative animation, courtesy of illustrator Rami Niemi and director Giant Ant.

Suffering from a heart attack, a young but severely overweight man reflects on his lifestyle. This blunt advisory was made to promote teaching healthy habits to kids, but we should all feel free to take charge of our bodies.

Fruits and veggies are good for you, but many can’t afford to buy them regularly. On the other hand, tons of sub par produce is thrown away everyday. French supermarket Intermarché found a way to reconcile these ugly truths.

Our world is loaded with bacteria, viruses and other organisms. Fortunately, for most of us, our immune systems fend off these nasties. KurzGesagt boils down the complexities of our bodies’ self-defense system for us non-scientists.

A lighter designed to help smokers quit. Quitbit tracks your smoking habits, lets you set limits, shows how much money you’ve saved by cutting back and more. You can even turn off its heating coil for a set amount of time.

The pages of The Drinkable Book contains tips on proper sanitation & hygiene, but more importantly, they’re function as water filters. Each book can provide clean water for up to four years and costs just pennies to make.

Hugh Herr and his colleagues at MIT’s Biomechatronics group develop artificial limbs that complete or augment the human body. His presentation is amazing, but if you’re short on time skip to 13:40. Really, watch the whole thing.

“We pride ourselves in this kind of confusion.” An ad executive talks about one of his industry’s go to tactics when it comes to marketing food: just add the word “natural.” A funny mockumentary by Only Organic.