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Top 10 Strangest MP3 Players
A reader writes: "TechEBlog lists the top 10 strangest MP3 players ever, with pictures. From the article: "CURE-alpha is an MP3 player that supposedly emits alpha waves which calm and rejuvinate the brain. They are transmitted at very low frequencies while listening to MP3/WMA files."
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Coral cache is shifting to port 8080 (instead of the old 8090)
My girlfriend got one of these for Christmas, and it lasted through one use. The guy who sold it was really nice about accepting returns and was very helpful, but the player sucks. There's no display and you have to learn to interpret its Flashing Light Language (tm) to understand what's going on.
The clip one, for instance, seems quite useful. Clip it onto your backpack strap, no accessories required. Even the Pez player isn't so strange: the form factor is perfect, it's a great useful novelty, and the "where'd you get that?" effect would be awesome.
120 characters for a sig? That's bloody useless.
wow, the Minty player instructions were so much more than what you normally see for DIY projects on the net. It invovled getting a board custom made (where you get it done is up to you) and soldering chips onto the board by hand. I'd think anybody who is adept enough to do the previous couple of steps probably doesn't need a lot of help in building their own player, other than the helpful list of free components you can get from different companies as samples.
In the end, the guy pretty much admitted that an iPod shuffle would only be marginally more expensive and way easier to get. There is a certain panache with running an MP3 player out of an Altoids tin, but it's definatly a project you do because you find soldering/building fun, not because you want an MP3 player.
I read the internet for the articles.
Neutrons are far more damaging than alpha particles. Alpha particles are charged, and are thus repelled by the nuclei of normal matter. Neutrons have no charge, and are not repelled by the nucleus - thus, they can enter the nucleus, and transmute normal matter into radioactive isotopes. This activation of normal matter makes neutron radiation the worst. It's like the old physics puzzle says - if you have an alpha source, a beta source, a gamma source, and a neutron source, all of comparable "intensity", and you can throw one away, put one in your pocket, hold one at arms length, and swallow one, what do you do? You throw away the neutron source, to avoid activation, you put the alpha source in your pocket, since it will be stopped by the cloth of your inside pocket, you hold the beta at arm's length, since it has a range of about a foot or so in air, and you swallow the gamma source, since it penetrates so well, you might as well have it inside of you as outside.
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.