One of the reasons professional athletes illegally use steroids is to help speed up their recovery time after a particularly grueling game or injury, thus making them fresh as spring chickens the next time they compete. But one of the goals of helping the body to recover is lowering core temperture, and Stanford believes that the heat-extracting glove they're developing is so effective at lowering core body temperture that it might actually be better than steroids in speeding up recovery time. And it's closer to being a readily available product than you think.

Building off the common knowledge that the hands, feet and face are the body's most effective radiators, Stanford researchers have developed a technology that creates a vacuum around a hand and sucks the heat right out from the body.