If Magneto Were Shopping For a Watch, He’d Buy This Omega

This past January at SIHH, Omega announced that it had created the world’s first anti-magnetic watch movement that’s resistant to magnetic fields up to 15,000 Gauss. Previously both Rolex and IWC were the only other watch manufacturers with anti-magnetic time pieces. But Omega’s new Seamaster Aqua Terra (calibre 8508) is 15x more resistant than either one with a movement that’s mostly made up of non-ferrous metals as opposed to encasing the movement in an iron cage. More »

Panasonic Releases Waterproof & Shockproof Anti Magnetic SD Cards

Waterproof, Shockproof, Anti Magnetic, X-Ray Proof, Freeze proof, here you are Panasonic new SDHC and SDX Cards!
Announced for an early September launch these new SD cards comes in two different flavors with the SDAB Series offering a 95MB/sec reading speed and 80MB/sec writing speed with capacity ranging from 8 up to 32GB and the SDUB Series also available in 8, 16 and 32GB but also in a 64GB SDXC version that offer however a 90MB/sec reading speed and a 45MB/sec writing sped.