My mom was having blood pressure problems and bought one of these. POS. Not accurate, not reliable, worse than nothing. She ended up paying $120 for one that works. When it comes to healthcare equipment why go cheap?
What’s next? Woot condoms? I figure most of the wooters would make ballon toys out of them anyway.
Look, if you want to take chances with counterfeit blood pressure cuffs, feel free to warm up the geezer bus and head for Canada. But there is no way I’m putting my fat family in danger: I only buy FDA-approved medical goods.
Until I see FDA documentation on this product, I’m going to sit here and eat this Big Bacon Classic Combo in protest. Civil Disobedience = Wendy’s.
What.
The.
Hell.
If I eat lots of egg nog, chocolate, and candy during the holidays maybe I can esculate my blood pressure so I can really check this baby out?!
Don’t know that I want one but sure got a good laugh!
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I see the bouncing “I Want One!”… then refresh later, and it’s the Motorola Networking stuff “SOLD OUT!”
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I love it! 3,750 sold in 10 hours, and still people will complain how bad of a woot it was… Imagine, people having different opinions, it’s a crazy thought! I feel if I see another video card, I’ll crack. Keep up the good work Woot, varaition is the spice of life.
Woot happened? It shows yesterdays Motorola stuff.
Not exactly what I expected from W00T.
But… SOLD OUT…???
Are we W00TITES that anxious?
Anyone calling this a bad woot is a dumbass.
Besides, one man’s woot! is another man’s doorstop.
It makes my blood boil, I wish I had just gotten one of these.
I want to see what playing online poker does to me.
Yeah, the message is that TGPhilly666 doesn’t know jack and should STFU. Booya 3750 sold and before 11am at that. Any other brainy comments you’d like to make Mr Philly?
I bought one of these…
Great for those times you know your pulse is out of control, but you’re too incapacitated to be able to count it…
Not going to describe what kinds of times those are…
It’s rather comical to see all the supposed “experts” coming out of the woodwork to suggest that this is so innaccurate as to be worse than nothing. If you can follow simple directions, then you should be able to obtain consistent results. It may be consistently off, but even with a +/- 10 units of measure accuracy, it good enough to at least allow you to see general trends, or if you’re close enough to an at risk category to seek a doctor’s advice soon. Ofcourse this isn’t intended to eliminate regular checkups, but to suggest that one is cheap or lazy simply for having one of these to monitor daily trends is ludicrous. I doubt that there is a single person here who has the time or can afford to go to the doctor twice a day just to get their BP read.
KuoH
Day late and a Dollar Short
oh Yeah I am to young for this sh$%
Hahaha! These are funny posts. So many complainers, yet the item sold out pretty quick.
No more “first page” posts, maybe Woot can start work on all the whiner posts. Maybe instead, Woot can setup an online poll. Who cares if you don’t like it, I want to know if if works and is it a good deal.
Great Woot! I got two, one for each arm. I was going to get three and put the third one on my thingy since I wanted to test out some Pr0n, but I knew it wouldn’t fit. 
Good woot, but still not a large flat TV
Come on People. Just because you don’t want one or need one, does not make it a bad WooT. If every Woot that was posted, was wanted and needed by everyone, they might as well open a newWOOTegg.com and make a ton more money than they are now. What fun would Midnight be then. ROFL
actually, I have taken physiology, and anatomy, and the heart beat the doctor heard is coming from the sound of the heart valve when it closed.
NOT THE PRESSURE WAVE or what ever you ever heard before
Wow, it did sell out. I guess people have a need for inaccurate heart monitoring after all.
wow, many of the young gadget geek wooters must not realize that blood pressure issues are not just for fat old people.
I’m gonna assume they don’t consume any of these or have any family history of bp issues…
Alcohol, Coffee, and Cigarettes
Alcohol. An estimated 10% of hypertension cases are caused by alcohol abuse (ie, three alcoholic drinks a day or more, with heavier drinkers having higher pressure). In one study, binge-drinkers had even higher blood pressure than people who drank regularly.
Smoking. Smoking is a major risk factor. One study reported that smokers have blood pressures up to 10 points higher than nonsmokers.
Caffeine. Caffeine causes a temporary increase in blood pressure, which has been thought to be harmless in people with normal blood pressure. Studies are suggesting, however, that regular, heavy coffee drinking (an average of 5 cups per day) can boost blood pressure, and there is growing evidence that a high intake of coffee may be harmful in people with hypertension and may even increase their risk for stroke. Drinking coffee also increases excretion of calcium, which also may affect blood pressure.
Other Causes of Secondary High Blood Pressure. Temporary high blood pressure can result from a number of other conditions or substances.
Stress. (getting yourself all worked up over the worthiness of the daily woot?)
Intense workouts (eg, snow shoveling, jogging, speed walking, tennis, heavy lifting, heavy gardening, walking to the kitchen for more Red Bull ?).
Long-term consumption of large amounts of licorice. (lay off the licorice !)
WHO GETS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE?
An estimated 50 million Americans have high blood pressure. Over 30% of these people are unaware that their blood pressure is abnormal. The majority of people with high blood pressure have the mild type, but even this condition requires attention.