UPDATE 12/2/2011 The new Nikken PowerChip is now available.
The technology in the PowerChip is pretty cool. A regular magnet has a north pole on one side and a south pole on the other and all of the magnetic energy circulates around the edges from one surface to the other. The magnetic energy doesn’t extend very far from either surface with much strength.
Nikken was able to get the magnetic fields to extend from the surface of the magnet a little farther by placing multiple fields with opposite poles next to each other in a triangular pattern. You see this in the Magsteps and Magstrides magnetic insoles and the current magnetic patches – the Kenko Mini, Super Mini, and Kenko Flex.
A spinning magnet will throw the magnetic field much farther than a stationary magnet. The Magboy and MagCreator are great examples of this. Nikken took this one step farther with the Biaxial magnets. They spun a magnet on two axes to create a large sphere of dynamically changing magnetic fields. This turned out to be very effective.
The only real downside to the Biaxial magnets is that they require a power source, they had to have batteries or be plugged into the wall. They aren’t easy to incorporate into a pad or patch that you can stay active with.
That brought about the RAM disk that is a part of the Naturest mattress toppers, pillow, and travel pillow. They were the first attempt to duplicate the effect of the dynamic Biaxial magnetic field in a static magnetic disk. It actually uses 6 magnets all rotated 60 degrees away from each other. I have found that they work much better than Minis or PowerPatches if you can get a hold of a loose RAM disk.
Now Nikken has come up with something new again and is calling it DynaFlux Magnetic Technology. Like the RAM disks, it uses multiple magnets. This time the poles are placed in opposition, north facing north and south facing south, to intensify the magnetic field and produce a magnetic field that extends farther from the surface.
The new PowerChip is currently the only item that features this new DynaFlux magnetic technology. The PowerChip is also a TriPhase device like the PowerBands. This means that in addition to the magnetic technology, it also features Nikken’s far-infrared technology and negative ion technology.
The best place to find answers to any questions you have about the new PowerChip is here in the new Quick Reference Sheet.
You can learn more about the new PowerChip on the Nikken website.
are these the kind of magnets you can place anywhere on the body the power chip that is
Hi Bernadette. Yes, the PowerChip is a disk about and inch and a half in diameter that you can place anywhere on your body that you need it. We use first-aid tape to hold them in place.