How cool is this new gizmo!
Eco-friendly company, Horizon, are about release their Horizon fuel cell Bio-Energy Kit. (September)
With a little drink of alcohol this devise can run small electronic devices such as the iPod or this dinky little fan - for days!
Just a brief report for anyone in Japan who is finding that their iPod batteries are over-heating. A recent government report there is warning that these batteries may pose a fire hazard (in fact there has been a report that two people in Japan have suffered minor burns).
Just so you know, Apple Japan are offering to replace faulty batteries:
“We will replace batteries of the first-generation iPod nanos with new ones if customers find that the batteries overheat“
So when you next do a recharge just check to see if it is overheating. Its not clear whether this problem is likely to affect batteries in other countries - so its probably a good idea for us all to do this check!
Hopefully this post can help avoid injury - but don’t be surprised if you can’t get a refund or replacement if the battery proves faulty. Reports are that Apple is less than enthusiastic in its after-sales service.
The widget we are posting here is a great tool for quickly finding and listening to music from around the internet. You can search for and listen to music from the widget below.
OR, if you want to watch videos of your favorite musicians then you can do this from the SeeqPod site.
And when you are out of touch - and with your iPodTouch - you can simply point it to their iPod-enabled site to find and listen to the music you love.
Feedback reported on the site is pretty impressive. Some examples:
“I’ve never used a site so much. I enjoy this so much. It works so much better than iTunes because you can find so [much] different stuff like remixes. I love it. Keep being amazing.” -E.B.
“I was the Lead Software Engineer with another Bay Area search startup and I’m relatively in touch with the state-of-the art in Search. I don’t see much that surprises me anymore, but your site blew me away. WOW! Very impressive.” -A.R