iPod catches fire in user's pocket!

Kiran.dks · 07-10-2007, 12:24 AM

iPod catches fire in user's pocket!

An American airport worker described himself as "freaked out" when his iPod Nano caught fire in his pocket.

Danny Williams, of Douglasville in Georgia, was carrying his iPod in his trousers when he noticed a burning sensation and looked down to see flames shooting out of his pocket.

The Nano had caught fire, he said, and the results could have been a lot worse given his job at an airport.

"I am still kind of freaked out that after only a year and a half my iPod caught fire in my pocket," Williams told WSBTV.

"So I look down and I see flames coming up to my chest. If [the US Transportation Security Administration] had come by and seen me smoking, they could have thought I was a terrorist."

The cause of the fire is not yet known, but Apple has requested the unit back and has promised to replace it.

The Nano range uses lithium ion batteries that have been the subject of overheating problems in mobile phones, digital cameras and laptops.

Problems occur if the battery is contaminated with metal fragments that cause short circuits and ignite the battery's flammable fluids.

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alsiladka · 07-10-2007, 01:02 AM

Not the first time Apple has had problems with batteries!

gary4gar · 07-10-2007, 01:15 AM

its going world over again & again over the faulty batter
first notepbook then mobiles now I-pods too

Gigacore · 07-10-2007, 11:48 AM

my god, now i think i should replace my ipod with new battery every year

iMav · 07-10-2007, 11:52 AM

i aint putting it in ma pocket .... where is that salesman .... come boy defend ur precious half eaten apple

thanx for the info kiran ... u saved our balls

Gigacore · 07-10-2007, 11:57 AM

@ iMav, is it BALLS or MARBLES

entrana · 07-10-2007, 12:09 PM

^^both, hmm i like my video ipod at least it wont burn a hole in my pocjet, literally

Cool G5 · 07-10-2007, 12:11 PM

^lol. He meant marbles.

OMG all people becoming terrorist with der phone,ipod etc.

narangz · 07-10-2007, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gigacore

my god, now i think i should replace my ipod with new battery every year

The standard reply will be that the user wan't using genuine battery hence it caught fire. Guess we are not safe- Laptops, Mobiles, iPods.

permalink · 07-10-2007, 02:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kiran_tech_mania

he noticed a burning sensation and looked down to see flames shooting out of his pocket.

Now thats something you don't get to see everyday!

aditya.shevade · 07-10-2007, 03:24 PM

And I wander around with my nano in my shirt pocket.

permalink · 07-10-2007, 05:49 PM

plz do not put ur ipod in Front poket otherwise it damage ur p*****

infra_red_dude · 07-10-2007, 06:57 PM

Apple, Sony, Dell, HP etc. (companies of that kind) should moot an R&D team (maybe a collaborative one) and start research in the filed of batteries. Its high time they did something about it. They shudn't rely on companies like Sanyo, Matsushita entirely for the battery. The need of the hour is to develop newer, more powerful and safer batteries. We've faced enuff!

blackpearl · 07-10-2007, 07:18 PM

Objects that might catch fire in future:

calculator
watches
tv remote
torch light
pacemaker

permalink · 07-10-2007, 07:18 PM

^^^ Hey infra, did something like this happened to you too? Is that why you got 'Feeling Hot Hot Hot?' as your title?

infra_red_dude · 07-10-2007, 07:38 PM

Haha... Thankfully not. I'm feeling HOT HOT HOT coz I'm INFRA (heating rays..!!) thats why I'm paranoid that Li-Ion batteries near me can catch fire!!!

hehe...