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To: Lost1 who wrote (3279)	10/25/2004 6:24:33 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 3287

Peeping Tom filter lets phones see through bikinis Published: October 25, 2004, 9:28 AM PDT By Jo Best Special to CNET News.com A developer in Tokyo has created an add-on for Vodafone handsets that's meant to be used as a night filter to let people take pictures with their phones in the dark. Unfortunately, the night vision camera has an unexpected side effect, according to Japanese developer Yamada Denshi. In the right circumstances, it allows users to see a lot more than they bargained for. As well as taking snaps in the dark, the Yamada Denshi infrared filter apparently sees through people's clothes. The problem arises because the filter uses the distribution of heat to create its pictures. When attached to a high-end camera, the filter can see though certain kinds of clothing and is reportedly particularly effective on dark bikinis. The handset most often used with the filter--the V602-SH--is only available in Japan. A Vodafone spokeswoman confirmed that the Peeping Tom accessory isn't a problem outside of Japan. She added that because Yamada Denshi is a third-party supplier, Vodafone's control is limited. "They are not an approved third party," she said. "We would never go to market with a phone with any kind of capacity to see people naked," she said. Camera phones have long prompted fears of voyeurism, leading several gyms to ban them to prevent people from using them to take inappropriate pictures. Voyeurism with camera phones became such a problem in South Korea that the government ruled that phones must make a noise when pictures are taken. Jo Best of Silicon.com reported from London.

To: Lost1 who wrote (3279)	1/6/2006 11:31:36 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 3287

RIP Lou Rawls. Grammy-Winning Singer Lou Rawls Dies Grammy-Winning Singer Lou Rawls Dies of Cancer in Los Angeles at 72 Singer Lou Rawls rehearses with the Boston Pops orchestra at Symphony Hall in Boston, on May 11, 2005. Rawls died of cancer Friday morning, Jan. 6, 2006, in a Los Angeles hospital (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) The Associated PressThe Associated Press LOS ANGELES Jan 6, 2006 — Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced singer who started as a church choir boy and went on to sell more than 40 million albums and win three Grammy Awards in a career that spanned nearly five decades and a range of genres, has died, his publicist said. He was 72. Rawls died early Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was hospitalized last month for treatment of lung and brain cancer, his publicist Paul Shefrin said. His wife Nina was at his bedside when he died, Shefrin said. The family and Shefrin said Rawls was 72, although other records indicate he was 70.