Yeah, we've all heard about the jeans that will feature iPod integration, but we hadn't seen a full-fledged fashion show featuring unique iPod wear. We've seen it now.

TUAW dedicates an article to the world of iPod Couture, prominently featured at a fashion show held recently in Boston. Among the items on full display was a bag strap with a display that proudly tells everyone what it is you're listening to as you walk down the street on your way to work.

Other designs are, I have to admit, a little bit scary for my tastes, with a silvery dresses that were never meant to be shown in public. Anyway, there are a few interesting things in there, be sure to check it out.

[Via, TUAW]

When enemies consider your firepower, you want them to know that your warship is the latest and greatest design in warfare, something that cannot be bested by anything else currently on earth. According to The Times online:

With a price tag of £605 million, the 150-metre long vessels will be the most powerful, advanced and deadly warships in the world when they come into service in 2009.

You want them to know how your ship can track a cricket-sized ball traveling three times the speed of sound and destroy it, and how it was custom-built to war specs. What your enemies also need to know is that your men on that beautiful ship never have to worry about not finishing "My Girl" because the juice in their iPod ran out.

Yes, that's true, when creating its warship, you can't forget to include specs that accommodate an iPod.

[Via, The Times Online]

Apple is now allowing universities to post lectures and other educational items on iTunes so that students can download the classes and listen to them on the go. It seems that the idea of putting the lectures online is quickly catching on, with more universities tapping Apple for the service.

Reportedly, the idea began almost without much fanfare, with a student at the University of Michigan asking students which form they would prefer best in disseminating the information online. Without much thought, the students overwhelmingly picked the iPod because of its ease of use and mobility. iTunes U was introduced to the dental school there.

Stanford is the latest in growing number of universities taking advantage of the service. Sheesh, who knew school WOULD finally be so cool?

[Via, Hexus]

I've never heard of the Health Careers Opportunity Program at the University of Montana but I wish they were around when I was a little kid. The program, which invites 25 students or so every so often to take part in creative experiments and lessons, recently used iPods to demonstrate a scientific theory.

In the lesson, instructors hooked an iPod to a transmitter that changed its electrical signals to light beams. Nelson could then zap the music across a table to a receiver, or cut off a song by waving her hand in the light. ?It's science they don't normally relate to health careers,? Nelson said. ?They're seeing the links from lights and optics, to lasers, to eye surgery.?

The students also had a chance to play around with cow eyes and their function. Sounds like a good class to me.

[Via, Missoulian]

Young doctors are ordering up more and more expensive tests for diagnosis of their patients. One factor this is being attributed to is a loss of stethoscope skills. Listening to a patient's heart is one of the most effective ways to recognise hundreds of common medical problems - but a doctor can only learn to recognise different sounds with practice. Lots of practice.

That's where the iPod can step in to help, according to Dr. Michael Barrett of Temple University in Philadelphia.

In a study published yesterday in the American Journal of Medicine, Dr. Barrett puts forward the theory that listening over and over again to recording of specific heart conditions as heard through a stethoscope is the ideal way for young doctors to quickly learn to differentiate between their sounds.

Dr. Barrett's studies showed that you need to listen to a sound around 500 times to be able to instinctively recognise it with any degree of accuracy. He produced a CD full of short examples, and handed it to students, who went ahead and ripped it to their iPods so they could listen and learn in any spare time throughout the day. After just the first couple of hours of careful listening and soaking up of knowledge, the group of students were able to correctly identify 80% of heart sounds on a test recording. They had only managed 30% before listening to Dr. Barrett's samples.

Just to satisfy your curiosity, one of Dr. Barrett's samples is available online here. Personally, I'm looking forward to hearing the remix.

[Via Time Magazine]

A company called Tunebuckle has just released its first product, a belt buckle. Its a belt with a specially made metal buckle, its more of a frame that the iPod sits in with a round hole cut in the side of the buckle to allow the headphones to be plugged into the iPod. The click wheel controls can still be accessed from the front of the buckle. The Tunebuckle sells for $49.95 and you have a choice of White of Black for the belt with sizes from 30 to 46.

Contrary to popular belief, teachers really don't like Apples, especially of the music-playing variety. With the holiday season over, students returning to school are bringing with them those shiny, new iPods they got for Christmas to classes.

Needless to say, their teachers, and school administrators, are not very happy. Sign On San Diego is reporting the effects it's had on one school,

La Costa Canyon High School in Carlsbad, where kids are perfecting methods of disguising the iPods and headphones from clear view.

Before classes started that first day back, the main office had already amassed a bunch of them. An announcement over the intercom has basically outlawed the devices for the school year. One teacher, though, has embraced the new movement, and produces podcasts with students on music.
[Via, Sign On San Diego]

Laridian announced today the release of the iPocketBible� New Living© Translation Edition for use with iPod© mobile digital devices.

iPocketBible includes the complete text and dramatized audio of the Holy Bible, New Living Translation for reading and listening. iPocketBible utilizes the iPod "Notes" feature to present the Bible text for reading. A verse and subject index allows the user to start at any book in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. A "Listen" option links them directly to the audio so they can listen as they read.

"Most MP3 Bibles give users audio only," said Craig Rairdin, president of Laridian. "iPocketBible gives the iPod user the ability to read or listen or both read and listen at once to the Bible text. It takes the Bible from being another "audio book" and turns it into a devotional and study tool for your iPod."

The New Living Translation is an accurate yet easy-to-understand translation of the Bible. Published in 1996 by Tyndale House Publishers, it is a thought-for-thought translation from the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts that is ideal for devotional reading.

iPocketBible New Living Translation Edition offers over 73 hours of professionally recorded MP3 audio. This dramatic, multi-voice edition includes original music and sound effects. Narration is provided by Mike Kellogg, national radio host of Moody Broadcasting's Music Thru the Night.

The iPocketBible New Living Translation Edition is available for $49.99 (plus shipping charges of $5.50). The product ships on 5 MP3 CDs and can be ordered from the Laridian Web site (laridian.com) or at finer Christian bookstores. The product requires an iPod device with a dock connector (excludes iPod shuffle).

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