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Osim's new USB-powered US$170 uPixie uses EMS to massage and tone while you work

OSIM, better known for its advanced  massage chairs , has begun selling a US$170 thumb-sized USB massager which uses  Electronic Muscle Stimulation  (EMS - the same technology you first witnessed in biology when your teacher made a dead frog's leg twitch using electrical current), to deliver a suite of specialized massage programmes from your laptop. It's a pretty good fit of technologies because you can synch the massage to your computer's music player and massage away stress, and  tone  up using the tapping, squeezing and kneading of the uPixie on specific muscle groups ... while you are working. There are four set programmes on the uPixie, but you can also write and develop your own routines,  opening up  a whole host of possibilities. The Osim uPixie is actually fairly rudimentary as far as EMS machines go. I picked up a full blown TENS machine while I was at a Chinese Consumer  Electronics  Fair last year, paying US$20 for a machine that quite amaze