Aug 19

Explosion Proof!

Exploding stuff is nothing new to the tech news freaks, I am sure. A few years ago, a movie with an exploding Dell laptop(the laptop's battery, in fact, a battery that was manufactured by Sony, if I recall it well) scared all those who owned such a thing, but things got much better in the meantime. Anyway, no matter how safe is technology these days, you can't absolutely avoid such things, especially when quantity is the main goal for most producers. Even more, I have seen a flaming iPod in somebody's pocket a few years ago! Fortunately, that also happened in a news video, and not next to me... but this time, it's the old iPod Nano again, with one explosion proof available below!

I know, there's no video, but I guess the owner of the iPod Nano in this picture didn't try to cook it, so probably the battery simply heated up, heated up, heated up, and so on, until it all ended with a little explosion. I don't know what Apple will say about this explosion proof, but no matter what they say, things aren't looking that good, especially since the batteries of older iPods(and new ones, as well) are not user replaceable, and their price is, usually, a bit too high to worth changing your old player's battery instead of buying a new one.

Now, more and more reports about iPod Nano problems are showing up, as it happened with the one in the picture above, who started to emit a sizzling sound only 10 minutes after being connected to the owner's notebook. In a matter of seconds after starting to produce the noise, the Nano exploded open, as you can see in this detailed article, the ultimate explosion proof for today.

Smoke and sparks for free from Apple's iPod Nano, how cool can be that? Obviously, not too cool. While you buy fireworks for this purpose, and you know they can only be used once, the iPod Nano is supposed to last a few years, and allow you to enjoy your music, and not set your house on fire!

At last, you should also be very careful with these players when going to a country where terror bombings occur on a regular basis - if it blows up in your pocket, you may end up with a bullet in your head, fired by some policeman thinking you had a "dud..."