Nerve: Koreannovation ’08: Self Acupuncture

This is one of the stranger items at the Koreannovation fair: a home, self-acupuncture kit. As you can see, Rachel, one of the many people who ended up showing me around the fair, is administering the Genesen Acutouch to the small of her back, to help relieve a little bit of the back pain that afflicted her from walking around a Con floor all day.

To take a little step back: The Accutouch is made up of two different small needles, and are filled with magnets (I think). You can take the needles, and press them into certain parts of the body to relieve stress, or help the treatment of pain, or any other thing acupuncture can do. There’s also, as you can see below, several different attachments, so you can more easily reach certain parts of your back:



Now, I don’t want to cast any aspersion here, but… There was a lady in the booth wearing an ill-fitting doctor’s coat, and glasses that looked kind of wrong on her face. She kept saying vague things about “working at the clinic,” and didn’t seem to know exactly how to use the Acutouch, or where exactly you placed it. So real doctor, or Con Booth actor? You decide. But only based on the sketchy info I just gave you.

I will say that Rachel felt a little bit of relief from her back pain… Though that may have been from, you know, sitting down for five minutes.