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Say Goodbye to That Morning-After Feeling with the Anti-Hangover Patch

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 04:00 AM PST

If you’ve ever had one drink too many at a party, you probably already know what a hangover feels like. Luckily, thanks to the new Bytox pathes, you never have to experience the morning-after feeling ever again.

When you consume too much alcohol, the vitamin B complex as well as other nutrients get depleted rapidly from your body, due to the diuretic effect of alcohol. This has some unwanted effects on the central nervous system, which translate into the dreaded condition we all know as “the hangover”. Symptoms include headaches, nausea, sensitivity to light and thirst, and are usually experienced the morning after a person has consumed alcohol. Wouldn’t it be great if you could actually do something to prevent hangovers, and still drink as many beers as you like? Well, apparently, all you have to do is apply a patch on your body and enjoy yourself. The makers of Bytox, an anti-hangover patch, say it replenishes all the vitamin B and nutrients lost during the drinking process, and prevent changes to the central nervous system and restoring the body’s natural balance.

Doctor Leonard Grossman, one of the inventors of Bytox, is a respected is a well known plastic surgeon who’s been helping people look good for the last 17 years. Now, with this new product he wants to help people feel good as well. The idea for this miracle patch was born when the other co-founder, Alex Fleyshmakher, went into Dr. Grossman’s office looking for a cure for his hangover. He was administered an IV of vitamin B complex with other nutrients and soon the headaches and nausea went away. That’s when both their lights went on and they began thinking of ways they could package this “cure” as a product. They considered liquids and pills, but neither of these worked very well, because the alcohol in the stomach annihilated their effect almost entirely, and the IV clearly wasn’t an option. So, eventually, they came up with the Bytox patch, a way to administer all the good stuff directly into the blood stream at a steady pace.

"Only an intravenous stuck in your arm while drinking could be more effective than a Bytox patch. Bytox is the most effective, ready to use product available for the consumer of alcohol, who wants to be functional the day after,” Dr. Leonard Grossman says about his invention. Earlier this year we featured the Las Vegas Hangover Heaven bus, a mobile health center that cures party-goers’ hangover by hooking them up to IVs for 45 minutes. It works like a charm, but with Bytox, you can apparently prevent hangovers from occurring All you have to do is apply the patch about 45 minutes before you start drinking and keep it on four 8 hours after.

After being launched in the US earlier this year, the Bytox anti-hangover patch has recently been launched on the UK market, where it was met with mixed reactions. Party revelers have welcomed it with open arms, but some voices say it just encourages heavy drinking. Truth be told, while Bytox may stop hangovers, it doesn’t prevent you getting drunk or making a fool of yourself, so you’re better off drinking responsibly.

Say Goodbye to That Morning-After Feeling with the Anti-Hangover Patch was originally posted at OddityCentral.com

Famous Paintings Recreated with a Clothes Iron Make One Cool Advertisement

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 02:43 AM PST

DDB Moscow, a creative ad studio from Russia, recently created a campaign for Dutch electronics maker Philips, in which it used the company’s new clothes iron and steamer to recreate a series of famous paintings. Didn’t think it was possible to paint with an iron? Think again!

The latest commercial for the Philips Azur GC4870 iron and the Philips ProTouch Steamer shows an artist making a series of folds with his hands and then using the new iron to fix them into place. As the video goes into fast forward, the simple piece of white cloth turns into a canvas for an original recreation of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”. Then, once the masterpiece is complete, the artist uses the powerful steamer to clear all the folds and prepare the canvas for other famous Dutch masterpieces by artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Rembrandt van Rijn. The whole commercial is just over a minute long, but I can only imagine how much time was really needed to painstakingly create every fold by hand, to make such detailed replicas. No wonder this Russian Philips ad was one of the most applauded at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the most important competition in the world of advertising.