Insect bite healeur fueled by the smartphone
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- The heat it is available on Amazon for $ 40.
- It warms your smartphone and reduces swelling and itching insect bites.
- Although its energy consumption is modest, it will pay for your phone.
As a person who spends a lot of time outside (and someone who has been struck by Lyme disease), it is amazing how often I forget to apply an insectifuge. The other evening, I spent the last half of a five -thousand walk in a thick and boring cloud of house stems. Irritating, but at least they don’t bite.
Not like horses … Now these things know how to bite! I watch them land on my round and start gnawing the fabric. These things are vicious, the bites are super itching and the scraping increase the risk that they are infected.
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So everything that can help cure insect bites is something I want to test. So when I came across a product called HeatAn insect bite healer powered by smartphone, my curiosity was stung. It is not something that I had never heard of before, so imagine how interested I was when I discovered that it was a tiny dongle that adapts to your trousseau.
Here’s how it works. First, you download the application to your phone (both iOS And Android The versions are available), connect the dongle to your smartphone (there is a USB-C for Android and more recent iPhones and a Lightning version for older iPhones), use the application to heat the end of the dongle to a maximum of 124 ° F / 51 ° C, then press the end on the bite and wait for the timer to say that the treatment has ended.
Heating it is the right size to fix your bitch.
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The application also has different modes for adults and children, a sensitive skin mode and short, medium and long applications.
Don’t worry if it sounds complicated, the application guides you through all of this.
It has been proven that the application of heat to an insect bite reduces swelling, especially if it is just after being bitten. According to the manufacturer, the device is medically proven that it works, and each application takes less than 0.1% of the battery of your smartphone.
I tested this on a certain number of bites: horse stings, mosquito bites, dog chip and other random insect bites that I found, and yes, it works. Really good, actually – much better than any cream or over the counter that I used (and I used a lot). I used it at the maximum duration, and although the end of the business becomes slightly hot, it was in no way painful.
This is the USB-C version that works with Android smartphones and new iPhones.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNET
I discovered that the itchy effect lasted a few hours, so for more irritating bites, I needed several zaps throughout the day, and for particularly itching itching, I found them before bedtime prevents me from sleeping the bites.
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I like the small factor in the recovery of healing, and that it has no use by dates or does not need the load or current care. As long as I have a smartphone, I am ready for these annoying bites.
Thermal image of the commercial end of healing in action.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNET
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At $ 40, Heat is not cheap, but it is a price that I am happy to pay for effective relief of the bite. I have probably saved more than that in creams and ointments, and I certainly had fewer side effects of the bites that go wrong because I cannot resist scratching them.
If you are someone who ventures into Mother Nature and you have to deal with bity things, I highly recommend this unusual product. He has a place in my kit for sure.
