While the actual MP3 device poses no threat to patients, it’s the actual headphones themselves that are the cause, composed of strong little magnets that can disrupt the implants’ firmware if placed within 1.2 inches. This is not a good thing, especially for those patients who depend on pacemakers to keep their hearts pumping. What…
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Acer, Lenovo Quad-Core Tablets Coming in Q1
These devices are expected to be in the range of $460 and $600, according to Digitimes, and are intended to be direct competition for Asus’s EeePad Transformer Prime. However, it won’t be plain sailing for the these tablet manufacturers. Digitimes sources are concerned as to how successful the tablets can be in a market where…
Huzzah! YouTube Now on Fire TV, Prime Video on Chromecast
The long-running feud between Amazon and Google — at least part of it — has ended. Starting today, the YouTube app will be available on Fire TV devices, andwill be available onand Android TV devices. Until now,owners who wanted to access YouTube had to do so through a browser, which was an imperfect solution, and…
Solar Gadgets for Summer
Let the Sun Shine In In an age of global warming and catastrophic climate change, the sun just might become our enemy, but for the time being, it can power a variety of gadgets from a speakerphone and desk lamp to a keyboard and a boom box. The devices often cost a little more, but…
Sirius-XM Rates Increase Planned for March
After a lengthy merger approval process, Sirius-XM finally merged its channelacross both services in November 2008. This was heralded as the signs of a new satellite radio service that would be beneficial to its subscribers. However, rumors of the possibility of rate increases had been surfacing amidst these new changes. As confirmed by its own…
Rumor: Apple to Discontinue iPod Classic and Shuffle
Apple said on the invitations that next week’s event is about the iPhone. Most have assumed that this means Apple will finally launch the iPhone 5 (and perhaps the iPhone 4S). However, the fall event is typically for iPods and iTunes, and Apple hasn’t given any inclination that it will be devoting even a small…
Rumor: WinMo 7 ‘Zune Phones’ From HTC and LG
Not too long ago, when everyone was getting all worked up about the Zune HD, there were some rumors that the device might actually be a Zune phone as opposed to just a PMP-only Zune HD. With the leaked images and specs doing the rounds at the time, we were really keen on the whole…
Apple Tries to Silence Owner of Exploding iPod
Recently, an iPod belonging to an 11-year-old Liverpudlian girl was dropped. The reports that the girl’s father, Ken Stanborough, dropped the device, which then emitted a hissing noise. Stanborough picked up the device and, upon feeling the iPod getting hotter in his hand, threw it out into the back yard where within 30 seconds, the…
New Malware Takes Over Your Mac: Here’s What to Do
HandBrake is an often-used free tool for editing and converting video files onmachines, but anyone who downloaded it last week may have unwittingly infected their Macs with malware. Online criminals replaced the HandBrake installer with the Proton remote-access Trojan (RAT), which gains complete control of your system and can also steal passwords stored on your…
The R2-D2 MP4 Player with C-3PO Earbuds
Usually, we’re exactly the kind of people when it comes to R2-D2 anything,or, we’d probably be up for pretty much anything, if it’s done right. We just can’t make decide if this music player from Toys R Us has been done right. Boasting 2GB of storage, this little guy also has a little color display…