Thread: The World's Most Expensive Sony Reader Box: A Review
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Old 01-26-2007, 01:24 PM   #36
Bob Russell
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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
You look like doctor McCoy with your blue shirt and your tricorder!
That reminds me of a variation on a old gag. You could put a picture of an x-ray on the screen and turn it off. Then for fun, you show off it's "capabilities" by pulling it out of the box, placing it on someone's arm at the same location, and hitting the power switch. Up comes an image of an x-ray of the person's arm. (Yeah, I was silly even when I was a child.) ;-)

As far as magnetism affecting the SD card, I doubt it does, especially of the type in the Reader case we are talking about. Here's some indications, but I didn't find real evidence.

http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2....256D8F00157283
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/noteboo...9346329,00.htm
http://www.dansdata.com/flashcomp.htm

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"Flash RAM" storage devices are shockproof (well, at least as shockproof as the average digital watch, anyway), dustproof, immune to magnetic fields, and really small, too.
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