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The Glove works by cooling the body from inside out, rather than conventional approaches that cool from outside in. The device creates an airtight seal around the wrist, pulls blood into the palm of the hand and cools it before returning it to the heart and to overheated muscles and organs. The palm is the ideal place for rapid cooling because blood flow increases to the hands (and feet and face) as body temperature rises.

An example of the “glove” in action:

Read the full article or check out the company’s website (where I got the above video from). And the way it’s marketed? I quote: “Even Steroids are nowhere near as effective as using CoreControl, from CoreCool and are illegal in sport.”

I guess alpha is the new beta. Even the products released to the general public are essentially “beta.” God forbid you buy a first-generation product…most will say “wait until version two.” Good or bad? I guess it just depends on your needs, but it does get to be a bit outlandish, if you ask me.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a beta is “a nearly complete prototype of a product.” In other words, a not-yet-finished product.

Google is known for keeping their products in beta (much) longer than most other companies. But exactly how many of their products are in beta? When we here at Pingdom investigated this, it turned out that out of the 49 Google products we could find, 22 are in beta. That’s 45%!

Note that we didn’t include any Google Labs products since they can be considered to be a “playground” for future products. If we had included those, the percent of beta products would have been much higher (57%).

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