iPod Lights Man's Pants On Fire Posted Oct 8th 2007 10:24AM by Tom Conlon Filed under: Audio/Video, iPod Danny Williams's taste in music is so wretched, his own iPod tried to kill him. Very recently, the Douglasville, Georgia native looked down to find his pants pocket engulfed in flames. The culprit: his year-old iPod Nano. Williams walked away from the incident uninjured thanks to a piece of glossy paper in his pocket, which he believes spared him from being badly burned. But, as if having your iPod try to immolate you isn't frightening enough, consider where this episode took place: Williams works at a kiosk at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. As Williams said himself: "If TSA had come by and seen me smoking, they could have honestly thought I was a terrorist." This fire is just the latest in a series of recent lithium-ion battery flame-ups. After smoke and flames were reported by consumers last August, Sony has since been forced to recall more than seven million laptop batteries it made for its own computers as well as for Dell, Apple, Gateway, Toshiba and several others. This summer, a Chinese man was killed when his cell phone battery exploded in his chest pocket, sending a broken rib tearing into his heart. The lithium-ion battery has become so ubiquitous due to its small size and ability to hold a charge, making it the perfect power supply for our increasingly mobile world. Unfortunately -- while very rare –- it is more likely than other types of batteries to light on fire or even explode. As for this latest incident, Apple has pledged to replace Williams's iPod, but wouldn't comment further. As a result, we are unable to tell you which batch of iPod Nanos are affected and how widespread the problem might be. Hey Apple, we're all very aware that you came out with some shiny new iPods last month. But, resorting to these scare tactics to convince us to upgrade? That's a new low. Another Ipod related incident...
hmm... ill comment back when my iPod video blows up on me, i might be at the hospital though or dead, depending on where i put my iPod >.<
^ it doesnt really matter at that moment, cause its the battery not the nano itself btw michelle i can put it anywhere cause i have all these different straps for different places i want to put them xD like if im at the gym it would probably strapped to my arm
Another reason not to get iPods--Get Creative DAP's!! Lucky he didn't get seriously injured, Would have been even more embarrassing for Apple if he did
=/.....ok.....lucky guy nothing got burned hahaha....pants on fire....it would scare the hell outta me
