Dispensary Corner 27 Sep 10
September 27, 2010
IPHONE users can now get fit
anywhere in the world.
A new iPhone app ‘The Fun
Run Trainer’ is purporting to allow
users to ‘virtually’ run, jog or walk
anywhere in the world whilst on
their own treadmill.
The app basically downloads
real-time video maps and precise
inclination settings, to allow users
to adjust their treadmill settings to
coincide with the route that they
have selected.
In addition to the ‘create your
own route’ function, the app also
includes over 200 of the world’s
most popular running events,
including Sydney’s City to Surf,
and the Boston Marathon, so
users can train whilst watching
their iPod in their own home.
SPECIAL kiwi deodorant needed.
Scientists in NZ are currently in
the midst of developing a deodorant
for native NZ birds to protect
them from introduced predators.
According to the researchers,
because birds native to NZ
developed without native land
mammals, they freely emit body
odours, which makes them easier
targets for introduced predators,
which over the last century have
decimated their numbers.
As such, Canterbury University
researcher Jim Briskie and his
team will spend the next three
years studying native bird odours
(apparently kiwis smell like
mushrooms and the kakapo
parrot smells like a musty violin
case), in order to develop measures
including possible deodorants to
protect them from attack.
BEWARE the burnt toast!
New Zealand’s Wairarapa
Hospital has had to replace four
of its staff toasters with sandwich
presses, after smoke alarms set
off by the machines cost it
thousands of dollars in fire
service call out fees.
According to reports the
toasters set off the alarms four
times this year, causing
firefighters to rush to the scene
(NZ only allows two free call outs
per year), costing the health
service NZ$2,634 in fees.
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