Mobile Magazine » lightning http://www.mobilemag.com Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:55:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 First 3rd party Lightning Adapters Surface http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/09/17/first-3rd-party-lightning-adapters-surface/ http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/09/17/first-3rd-party-lightning-adapters-surface/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:53 +0000 Andrew Grush http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=138108 It was only a matter of time before the first 3rd party Lightning adapters showed up for use in the new iPod Nano, Touch and iPhone 5. The new 9-pin adapters feature a 20cm cord and have a looks a little different from the official Apple adapter.

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It was only a matter of time before the first 3rd party Lightning adapters showed up for use in the new iPod Nano, Touch and iPhone 5. The new 9-pin adapters feature a 20cm cord and have a looks a little different from the official Apple adapter.

The 3rd party adapter is called Nanotch and is priced at $18. Is that too much for an adapter? While I personally feel it should have been much cheaper, considering the massive need for this adapter to make older accessories work- it’s actually a really great price when compared to the official adapter.

How much is Apple’s version selling for, you ask? A whopping $39. This means that you can get two Nanotch adapters for the price of one of Apple’s adapters.

Do you plan on getting the iPhone 5? Will you start over with new accessories or load up on adapters instead? Personally, if you don’t have too terribly much invested in the older accessories, it might be the right time to unload them on a site like Ebay and start over again.

These 9-to-30 pin adapters won’t work with all accessories and may look a little unsightly with others, after all. What about you? Going the adapter route? If so, the Nanotch adapter is really one of the most affordable ways to do it.

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]]> http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/09/17/first-3rd-party-lightning-adapters-surface/feed/ 0 10,000,000 fps camera captures first X-ray photo of lightning http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/12/30/10000000-fps-camera-captures-first-x-ray-photo-of-lightning/ http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/12/30/10000000-fps-camera-captures-first-x-ray-photo-of-lightning/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:50:29 +0000 Raggy Jin http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=111620 Students at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne have taken the first X-ray photograph of lightning, confirming the notions that lightning both emits radiation and that most of that radiation is localized to the tip of the bolt.

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The camera, which is lined with lead and weighs in at 1,500 lbs, takes 10 million hexagon-shaped, 30-pixel photos per second on a grid. The photo isn’t very high-res, but is able to aid in further research into lightning radiation.

To ensure the lightning struck in the camera’s visual field, the team shot rockets into the storm clouds with wires trailing back down to a large metal structure sitting in the camera’s view. Though this is technically artificial creation of lightning, Joseph Dwyer, a lightning researcher at the institute and the professor leading the study, said the same results would be achieved under natural circumstances.

Photograph courtesy Dustin Hill

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