Heartbeats on IPods - Being ‘cool’ can Help Doctors to

A weird idea, it may sound like, but most of life’s best inventions did sound strange at first, before their outcome shushed// up critics. Cardiologist Michael Barrett of Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital presented a study detailing his experiments with ‘recorded heartbeats’ a...

MP3s And iPods Can Damage Hearing

Scientists have warned that the improper usage of MP3 and iPods, like listening to music at high decibels can contribute towards affecting the hearing capabilities of a person. // The University of Michigan’s Director of Audiology Paul R. Kileny revealed that such devices are not inherently unhealt...

Indoor Lightning Injuries On the Rise

...ed video games, even though they knew to unplug their computers to prevent lightning damage," Cooper said. Wireless devices such as cell phones and ipods don't attract lightning. If it's not possible to go indoors, seek shelter in a hardtop car, bus or truck. Never go under a tree during a lightning ...

It's How You Listen That Counts

...tunity to purchase raffle tickets for $1 each that are good for sound reducing products such as custom molded ear plugs, musician in-ear monitors, and ipods with custom molded headphones. Tickets for the event are $8. All proceeds from raffle sales and the door will go toward the Kirkland Teen Union Buildi...

Using Music and Sports to Improve Kids' Asthma

... on iPod Shuffles, which would play the music and messages in no predictable or controllable order. After eight weeks of routine listening to their ipods --coupled with twice daily phone calls to remind the youths to take their medications -- Mosnaim's team found that the group's general knowledge of as...

New iPod listening study shows surprising behavior of teens

... A new study involving ipods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Bou...r peers or others to turn down the volume of their ipods instead turn them up higher. The study also sho...out the risk for and severity of hearing loss from ipods actually play their music at higher levels than th...

University of Rochester Launches iTraining for Emergency Responders

... The institution is the first in the nation to train emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics with video podcast lessons downloadable onto ipods or computers. The University hopes to serve as a model for other institutions seeking to make continuing education more compelling and convenient. To ...

New Health Protection for Users of Cell Phones and Electronics

... as cancer, pneumonia, and Crohn's disease. Anyone that uses electronic devices, such as cell or cordless phones, laptop or desktop computers, or ipods and MP3 players, should get the protection that works -- the Foton R15. Designed and manufactured by Dr. Nekrasov, the Foton R15 produces its own non-...

American Council on Exercise (ACE) Says Budget-Friendly and Boot Camp-Style Workouts Among Most Popular Fitness Trends in 2009

...d at providing a wide range of affordable fitness services to its 39 million members--has been going strong. Technology-Based Fitness: From ipods to Cardio Cinema to exergaming (i.e., Wii Fit, Expresso Bikes) the latest in technology will continue to infuse itself in all aspects of fitness. Loo...

Can Vitamins and Minerals Prevent Hearing Loss?

...eden and Spain, an industrial trial in Spain, and a trial involving students at the University of Florida who listen to music at high volumes on their ipods and other PDAs, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This is the first NIH-funded clinical trial involving the prevention of noise-induc...

iPods in Biological News

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Dec. 19, 2007

...s The American Chemical Society (ACS) Office of Communications is posting a Santas sack of gifts for the entertainment and enlightenment of users of ipods and other portable digital audio players. Called The 12 Days of Holiday Podcasts, these audio snippets focus on chemistrys lighter-hearted connections...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Dec. 12, 2007

...s The American Chemical Society (ACS) Office of Communications is posting a Santas sack of gifts for the entertainment and enlightenment of users of ipods and other portable digital audio players. Called The 12 Days of Holiday Podcasts, these audio snippets focus on chemistrys lighter-hearted connections...

iPods in Biological Technology

New research shows that iPods do not interfere with cardiac pacemakers

A report in the open access journal BioMedical Engineering OnLine refutes claims that portable music players, such as Apple's iPod, interfere with cardiac pacemakers. Howard Bassen, a researcher with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Md., led a research team that measured the ...

Novel CU-Boulder technique shrinks size of nanotechnology circuitry

...e's Law, a stall in such advances would cause huge shockwaves for companies that make chips to power up devices like digital cameras, Blackberries and ipods even as they shrink them. The new technology has the potential to lead to the construction of a variety of nanotechnology devices, including "nanom...

Beating the back-up blues

...er in condensed matter physics at the University of Leeds. Compared with flash memory - the kind of solid state memory you find in flash drives and ipods - racetrack memory's huge advantage is on price. It is estimated that a racetrack memory in a computer would be 100 times cheaper per bit than flash....

Synthetic Biology Importance in the 21st Century

... Five free ipods to those who test their knowledge at www.synbioproject.org WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Among the 75 people Esquire mag...

Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy

...able electricity still need to be developed, the sheets could one day be manufactured as lightweight "skins" that power everything from hybrid cars to ipods with higher efficiency than traditional solar cells, say the researchers, who report their findings Aug. 13 at the American Society of Mechanical Engi...

ASU researchers improve memory devices using nanotech

...rs could see it on the market within a few years. What it means is we could replace all of the memory in all sorts of applications from laptops to ipods to cell phones to whatever with this one type of memory, Kozicki said. Because it is so low energy, we can pack a lot of memory and not drain battery...

Technology puts pressure on old education methods

...ne around who's expert in something you're looking for. Brown pointed to ipods as an example of common technology being converted to educational purposes. Duke University begun distributing ipods to incoming students so they can hear lecture notes, and more and more stud...

Discontent grows over Wisconsin's Internet taxes

...d e-books. This has led state Representative Scott Jensen, a Republican of Brookfield, to dub the tax the "IPod tax," as many listeners stock their ipods with music they bought from Apple's ITunes music store. "I think it's a money grab," said state Senator Ted Kanavas, a Republican, also of Brookfie...

Rodney Dykehouse of Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin warns against tech for its own sake

...ssarily ready to mix it with their medical expertise. To some new practitioners, technology is second nature. In fact many new doctors grew up with ipods and mice, Dykehouse said, and this group expects digital framework before considering a facility. Overall, Dykehouse works to include staff in deci...

U.K. firm develops smart fabrics

...ronics and other manufacturers. The company recently did a deal with wetsuit and sports gear maker ONeill, which plans to incorporate control pads for ipods and mobile phones into sportswear and backpacks. The durable, versatile fabric has applications well beyond mobile consumer electronics. Auto manuf...

iPods in Biological Dictionary

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