iPods Not Guilty Of Zapping Pacemakers February 4, 2008
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Apple’s iPods have been declared safe for use by people with pacemakers despite claims over the past year that the music players could interfere with, and even stop, a pacemaker.
More importantly, those with pacemakers are again allowed to hug all those young, iPod-wielding relatives without fear of shutting down.
Research from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the iPod safe for use, debunking research last year by a smart 17-old and some helpful cardiologists. They claimed that electrical interference occurred in more than 50 out 100 subjects when an iPod was placed near the chest for no more than 10 seconds.
The FDA tested four types of iPod player and a peak measurement of just 0.2 millionth of a Tesla was detected – far too low to cause electrical interference with pacemaker.
The FDA research stated: “We performed in-vitro evaluations of the low frequency magnetic field emissions from various models of the Apple iPod music player…. Based on the observations of our in-vitro study we conclude that no interference effects can occur in pacemakers exposed to the iPod devices we tested.”
You can find out more here.-Martin Lynch
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Carma Sutra For Valentine's Day February 4, 2008
READ MORE Cars , Entertainment , Gadgets , Gizmodo UK , Motoring
No, I haven't spelled it incorrectly. This is Carma Sutra: The Auto-Erotic Handbook which aims to throw your Valentine's Day gift into overdrive. Or destroy your relationship completely. Don’t you just love how it rips off the look of those Haynes car manuals?
Anyway, what better way to share your obsession with cars with the missus than by sharing a guide to in-car sexual positions that don’t involve spearing your little soldier on the gear-stick. Again.
The 80-page book contains plenty of advice on how to rev up the sex-life in your motor, without the usual tell-tale ‘leg hanging out the window’ scenario.
There are plenty of illustrations to get you started but be warned, this book is aimed at folk with regular cars. SMART car owners will have to ah…er…continue with the self-help approach.-Martin Lynch
Get it here on Amazon for around £7.-Martin Lynch
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The Xbox 360 Elite Laptop February 4, 2008
READ MORE Consoles , Entertainment , Gadgets , Games , Gizmodo UK , Xbox
As mods go, the latest one from modding god Ben Heck is something refreshingly different: the Xbox 360 Elite laptop, complete with Halo 3 theme.
Why anyone would want one is another reason but you have to admire the dedication of one man to taking consoles and handhelds and doing to them things that the original designers did not intend.
For gamers who find life on the road hard without their console fix you get an Xbox 360 Elite, with 120GB hard drive, married to a 17in display and keyboard. The Elite in question uses the 65nm chip so shouldn’t melt on your lap and sports a Web-cam built into the bottom of the display for those Xbox LIVE ribbing sessions.
Thanks to in-built Wi-Fi, you should be able to game-on from just about any decent coffee shop these days. Go here to see the labour of love come to life. Or, see the Elite laptop in action in a short video after the jump.
For those who haven’t seen just how weird and wonderful Ben Heck’s earlier creations are, check out the Atari 800 laptop, NES Micro and the Atari Rev 5.1.-Martin Lynch
Sony’s New Digital SLR Cameras Promise Less Lag February 4, 2008
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Sony has taken the wraps off its latest clutch of digital SLR (DSLR) cameras which promise to take the lag out of composing shots on the LCD display.
The new Alpha A300 (pictured) and A350 cameras are 10.2MP and 14.2 MP models, respectively, and both feature Sony’s new Quick AF Live View technology that lets users frame photos on the LCD without sacrificing the auto focus speed. According to Sony, this is typical of many rival cameras and, to be fair, earlier Sony DSLRs too.
Quick AF Live View uses two sensors and can continuously focus-track the subject and provide live view during burst shooting. Sony says Live View, coupled with the adjustable 2.7in LCD display, means users can maintain eye contact with their subjects – often over-excited children – without sacrificing the quality of the shot.
“Mainstream users stepping up to DSLRs are looking for a similar experience to their point and shoot cameras, but without compromise in speed or performance” said Phil Lubell, director of marketing for digital cameras at Sony Electronics. “Quick AF Live View gives these new models a familiar shooting style without compromising speed – ideal for the growing market of first-time SLR users.”
The DSLR-A300 and 350 can shoot about 3 and 2.5 continuous frames per second, respectively, when using the optical viewfinder. The Lithium-ion battery is good for up to 730 shots per full charge when using the optical viewfinder and around 410 shots when using the LCD view finder. There’s also an anti-dust system to keep the CCD image sensor clean.
The DSLR-A300 kit with a DT 18-70mm f3.5-5.6 standard zoom lens will ship in April for £400 (US pricing). The DSLR-A350 camera body is due next month for around £400 while the A350 kit with a DT 18-70mm f3.5-5.6 3.9x zoom lens will cost around £450.
Again US pricing here so add what you like for trans-Atlantic travel, tax, and the general gadget price gouging of UK consumers.-Martin Lynch
PS3 Slim & Lite Rumoured February 4, 2008
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The PS3 is a big brute when it comes to consoles. To be fair, the Xbox 360 is hardly a slinky either. Sony is rumoured to be sorting that out this Autumn with a PS3 Slim & Lite, for want of a better name.
T3 are pushing this latest bit of PS3 gossip from what it calls a “particularly well-informed insider” it met at the CES Show in early January. The new console is said to be slimmer, lighter and sexier. It could be the one sporting a badly needed bigger hard disk drive too.
Of course, slimming down its gaming products is nothing new to Sony. The PSOne PS2 and PSP have all been put on the Belly Button Lint diet, or similar fad diets, at some stage in their lives so a slimmer PS3 seems more a certainly at some stage than a possibility. But by this Autumn? Great if it happens but it sucks if you already bought one.
Anyway, if T3 got this nugget of information at CES more than 3 weeks ago, why has it taken so long to reveal it? Maybe it's because it took its art department that long to create the illustration here. -Martin Lynch
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