Rumblings from the Health Edco R&D lab

Here at Health Edco, we have some of the happiest ‘mad scientists’ in the health education industry. That’s because the members of our R&D and product design team spend their days experimenting with new chemicals, sketching out quirky new product ideas, and tinkering with products with names like ‘Vat of Fat’ and ‘Death Breath’. Who wouldn’t love that? Here’s an early glimpse of a few products, still currently in development, that you’ll soon see on the pages of our catalogs and available for purchase right here on our website.

Splat! The Helmet Safety Game

This outstanding new product is designed to ‘beat’ a little sense into those hard-boiled youngsters who still think it’s okay to ride a bicycle or skateboard without a helmet. It will feature two cricket ball-sized models of a person’s head. One head is protected by a cushioned ‘helmet’; the other is not. As depicted in the series of photos to the right, users will place an ordinary egg into the model to simulate a brain and drop it from a height of approximately one meter. They’ll do it once with the helmeted head, and for comparison, once with the unprotected head. Upon opening up the models, pupils will see just how much of a difference protective gear makes. This product is guaranteed to send a clear-cut message in short order. Nothing gets scrambled here but the eggs.

Tobacco R.I.P. Display

This is a follow-up to our popular Drunk Driving R.I.P. Display, released in mid-2010. Made to look like a real, life-size headstone, this display is a sobering reminder of the heavy toll smoking takes on a person’s health. Although it looks as if it were fashioned from a solid slab of granite, it’s actually quite lightweight. In the photo to the right, one of our R&D technicians carefully carves out the inscription on a prototype of the new tombstone.

Gulp & Gain Display

Ever wonder how much weight it’s possible to gain by drinking your favourite beverage? You may not want to know. This simple new display will feature facsimile models of a milk carton, beer bottle, juice bottle, sweet tea bottle, and a soda can. The back of each model reveals how much weight a person might gain by drinking that particular beverage over a period of 30 days and failing to burn those extra calories. Although the early prototypes of the models shown here (below, right) are cast in black plastic, the finished products will be cast in a semi-flexible, yellow-tinted compound to make the models resemble fat.