Pair devise gadget for aching backs
NZPA-Reuter Tokyo A Soviet scientist and a British computer designer have developed a gadget enabling people with aching backs to apply acupuncture to themselves. The gadget combined high technology with traditional Oriental medical theory, the Waco Trading Corporation said. Japanese with tired shoulders but no time for
long sessions with needles or masseurs can find their own tension-release points and apply ■ electrical pulses to them: fusing a small sensor-electrode gadget The 18,000 yen ($230) device wte developed by the Soviet scientist, Alexander Kairis, arid the British designer, Andy Deller, who both now live in Japan.
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Press, 13 August 1986, Page 12
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