Mac Complainer » ipod classic http://www.maccomplainer.com Looking into the Apple core. Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:25:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Apple iPod: Good News and Bad News http://www.maccomplainer.com/news/apple-ipod-good-news-and-bad-news/ http://www.maccomplainer.com/news/apple-ipod-good-news-and-bad-news/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:08:50 +0000 BrianB http://www.maccomplainer.com/news/apple-ipod-good-news-and-bad-news/ ipod voltage damage headphoneFirst, the good news: iPod does not interfere with pacemakers. This was the official conclusion of a study done by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Md. A previous study done by a 17-year-old found suggested that close proximity to an iPod makes pacemakers skip a beat. This was in a way corroborated by rumors of heath patients with pacemakers experiencing discomfort when they are near an iPod. Howard Basse and his team tested four iPods – fourth-generation iPod and an iPod with video, and an iPod nano and iPod shuffle – and found out neither produce magnetic fields strong enough to affect pacemakers. Source.

Now for the bad news: iPod Classic 1.1 firmware update sends an electric voltage to users’ headphones thereby damaging them. Source.

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