Cosmetic gadgets move from clinic to home

Tiffani Bruce, a Walgreen Co employee, had her doubts about the acne-busting gadget called Zeno when her store began selling it two years ago.

A victim of the occasional pimple, she decided to give the slim, handheld device a try, and was pleasantly surprised by results of the "heat shock" treatment that destroys offending bacteria without damaging the skin.

"When you first hear about it you're a bit skeptical," said Bruce, a spokeswoman for the Chicago-based drugstore chain. "But it absolutely works. You have to kind of catch it before it's huge, but it works."