Tag: Pacemaker
iPod headphones a possible KISS OF DEATH for users with pacemakers
Dr William Maisel, a cardiologist at the Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, caused heart-murmurs across the internet this weekend thanks to his claim that music player headphones could break pacemakers – and stop defibrillators restarting dodgy hearts.
It’s all because of the magnets in headphones, which could, possibly, if held very close to them, make pacemakers and other “embedded” medical devices stop working. After testing eight models of headphones on 60 patients with pacemakers, the doctor found that nearly a quarter of patients’ heart devices suffered some sort of interference…
Tonium launches Pacemaker DJ mix portal
Sorry, the elusive Pacemaker portable DJ gadget isn’t here yet, but an online DJ portal is. Coupled with a free PC/Mac music / mixing editor, the web site allows you to create your own mixes and share them with the community.
Tonium has apparently done deals with a number of international music publishing houses, so the resulting service should be fairly watertight legally…
Think PC hacking is bad? How about heart hacking… wirelessly?
Computers have been open to hacking attacks for years now, but most people generally think of the PC sitting on their desk, or a supercomputer tucked away in a bank vault, or cybercriminals hacking in to the Pentagon…
How about hacking medical devices designed to regulate a heartbeat?
Computer security researchers in the US found that it was possible to “hack” a Medtronic’s Maximo combination defibrillator and pacemaker, by placing it within two inches of some very expensive ($30,000 worth of) lab equipment and reprogramming it to either shut down or to deliver fatal jolts of electricity…
Shiny Video Review: Tonium's Pacemaker DJ mixer
Please don’t laugh at my DJ skillz when you watch the video above. I mean it – I will know if you do, and my feelings will be hurt so much they’ll shatter and break into a million little pieces. I may not be the next Carl Cox, but Tonium’s Pacemaker DJ mixer was so much fun to review, anyone who’s interested in electronic…
Tonium taking reservations for Pacemaker DJ mixer, available from next month
Back in May last year, I may’ve rashly described the Pacemaker Pilot DJ mixer as being ‘perfect for twatty Nathan Barley types’, due to its similarity to the TV character’s Wasp T12 Speechtool device. I’ve definitely changed my mind however, mostly because it’s launching next month, and I’m admittedly getting quite excited about such a nifty piece of convergence.
So what exactly is it? I’m glad you asked. Basically…
Pacemaker's Pocket DJ MP3 player perfect for twatty Nathan Barley types
If ever there was a piece of technology that couldn’t be suited more aptly to Nathan Barley, it’s this – the Pacemaker Pocket DJ MP3 player. Based on the notion that simply listening to your East-London grime on any old MP3 player in its original recording is just not good enough for ‘self-facilitating media nodes’ such as Barley, the 120-GB player features DJ mixing technology internally, where you can cross-fade, add effects plus a bunch of other spiffy pieces…
