Meet Heather. Thanks to the guys over at Gizmodo, she's achieved notoriety across the web. Yep, so she might make cash by swallowing 36-inch steel swords, but we take our hat off to whoever had the idea to make her swallow the iPod Shuffle.
(Image courtesy of Gizmodo video)
As you'll be able to see in the short video, poor Heather has some problems swallowing the thing as it's so lightweight – weight is the key reason she's able to swallow a sword and control the gag reflex as the piece explains. Of course, Gizmodo's reasons to run the piece are purely scientific and nothing to do with the picture accompanying it.
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According to Kotaku, a new battle is being waged in the Japanese gaming industry – upskirt viewing of in-game females. Apparently a new face-tracking webcam can look at in-game characters from various angles, including from below. Hmmm.
Love, love, love this. Leon's VK test from Blade Runner starring the iPod shuffle and Amazon's Kindle 2.
Following on from Manchester United's Ben Foster finding his iPod touch useful for saving penalties in the Carling Cup final, how about soldiers being deployed with them in Iraq? Translation, data sharing and navigation are all covered – and the soldiers know how to use them to boot.
And finally, wood isn't the first material you'd think of to make tech, but here are six examples of actually working wooden tech over at the TechEBlog.
