Omron HEM-425C Blood Pressure Monitor

Pros: Easy to use and quite accurate
Cons: small cuff needs to be tried on before purchasing

My 86 year-old mother-in-law's blood pressure would shoot sky high each time she visited the doctor's office. And yet, she displayed only minor symptoms of high blood pressure at home. High blood pressure can, however, be silent with few if any symptoms....

Pros: Pretty easy to use. Accurate. Easy to read out results.
Cons: Takes some practice to inflate properly

I got this product for the same reason most middle aged people do: to check if I'm still alive. No, that's not why. It's because I'm as hopelessly addicted to gadgets as Pogomom. No, that's not it either. It's that scattered checks of blood pressure...