Macaroni & Cheese Bandages – $4.95

How do you make comfort food even more comforting? You turn it into a bandage!

Check out the Macaroni & Cheese Bandage from the NeatoShop.  These Mac & Cheese printed bandages will have you feeling happy and loved in no time.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more  unusual Bandages!

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All right, Neatoramanauts! Let's settle this question once and for all: should you rip a bandage off slow or fast?

Did you say slow? Well, according to science, you're wrong:

The perennial debate in every playground has finally been solved - ripping a Band-Aid off quickly causes less pain than pulling it away from the skin in a slow two-second tug.
For the study, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia, each student had two plasters applied to their upper arm, hand and ankle. The plasters were then removed using both fast and slow methods, with a randomisation process used to decide which was used first on each student. Subjects were asked to rate the pain on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the "worst pain imaginable".

Fast removal achieved an average pain score of 0.92, while slow removal was significantly more painful at 1.58

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Image: Bacon Bandage from the NeatoShop | Lots more fun bandages there!

Their invention could reduce the $500 million cost of chronic wound care in Australia.
“We hope that the dressing could lead to more rapid and effective treatment of chronic wounds such as leg ulcers, saving time and money, as well as improving patient well-being,” says the lead inventor Louise van der Werff, a CSIRO materials scientist and Monash University PhD student.

“We’ve created a fabric that changes colour in response to temperature – showing changes of less than 0.5 of a degree. We expect that, when incorporated into a bandage it will allow nurses to quickly identify healing problems such as infection or interruptions to the blood supply, which are typically accompanied by a local increase or decrease in temperature,” she says.

A bandage manufacturer is working with the team, and expects the product to be in the testing stage in about six months. Link -via the Presurfer

(Image credit: Louise van der Werff, CSIRO)

When you need a bandage your options are rather limited – the traditional boring old band-aid or some embarrassing cartoon character-endorsed variation. Sometimes you just want something a little different and what can be better than these twisted scab bandages. They’re gross, fun and are far better than having Hello Kitty cover your boo-boo.

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