iPod Nano Explodes While Charging

Posted by Patrick Roche-Sowa - Monday, August 18, 2008 11:53 AM

It seems that iPod Nanos have been recruited by the extremists and have become suicide bombers. One Apple enthusiast was charging his first-gen Nano via his PC USB cord when shizz got serious and things exploded:

"After being plugged in for somewhere between 5-10 minutes I heard a sizzling sound. I looked down on the iPod just in time to see it explode open and start shooting sparks and spewing smoke... I had noticed that a small fire had started on the table I had the laptop and the iPod sitting on... Unlike in other cases, I've read about, my iPod continued to spew smoke and spit sparks while throwing out some kind of sooty substance from the inside of the iPod for several minutes after removing the cable from the computer. I moved the still spitting iPod from the table and placed it on a book case across the room."

Did Skynet just go online or something?

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Posted by neo9900 - Monday, August 18, 2008 12:20 PM

lol, nice touch with Skynet.

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Posted by Slash5150 - Monday, August 18, 2008 12:33 PM

And 20 minutes from now, he will probably go an purchase ANOTHER iPod.

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Posted by slimmer - Monday, August 18, 2008 12:34 PM

They're getting us where it really hurts, our pointless and useless tech gadgets which help us take our minds off of pesky things like corruption and war and famine.
Damn first and third world sweat shops.

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Posted by majorpayne418 - Monday, August 18, 2008 12:37 PM

The Mysterious Blue Smoke.

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Posted by slimmer - Monday, August 18, 2008 12:37 PM

I like it when people go and buy another 360 after the first one breaks.

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Posted by N8R - Monday, August 18, 2008 1:00 PM

Why hasn't somebody, made a self-destruct app for the iPhone?

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Posted by sjohnson - Monday, August 18, 2008 1:11 PM

All my Nano does is play Mp3. I want one that explodes!

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Posted by Shockwave562 - Monday, August 18, 2008 1:24 PM

@slimmer: why would you purchase a new 360 when you get one for free?

worst part about this is they probably won't allow ipods on planes anymore. it's practically a bomb waiting to happen.

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Posted by Slaytanic40oz - Monday, August 18, 2008 1:27 PM

Why did he put it on a bookshelf to smolder instead of, oh, OUTSIDE.

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Posted by Ragius - Monday, August 18, 2008 1:43 PM

It's how Apple makes you buy new products. Steve Jobs: "What!? Someone STILL has a first-gen Nano? Okay boys, we need this customer to buy a new one. Activate it's self-destruct sequence from here."

:D

Oh and btw, I'm the biggest fan of Apple so don't jump down my throat. Just making a joke (As I type on a Macbook and play with my iPod Touch.)

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Posted by Dukefnnukem - Monday, August 18, 2008 2:04 PM

This further proves my theory that anyone that buys one of these is flaming.

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Posted by ookiepita - Monday, August 18, 2008 2:12 PM

wtfzomgbbq

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Posted by viggorrah - Monday, August 18, 2008 2:52 PM

Why does he get the special treatment? Hmm?

What, the rest of us aren't worthy enough to deserve an exploding iPod?

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Posted by Rajion1 - Monday, August 18, 2008 3:30 PM

Do you think it would get 72 new Shuffle's?

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Posted by bullet53 - Monday, August 18, 2008 8:50 PM

@slimmer

what does that have to do with the exploding ipod?

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Posted by SingleCrow - Monday, August 18, 2008 10:54 PM

I'm with Slaytanic on this one.

Hmmm. Lets see, my smoldering/sparking/spittiing iPod should gooooooo...HERE...on a bookshelf with lots of books made of PAPER!!
Genius.

Sure, the bookshelf could have been empty, but no one said it, so I say we burn him like a T-Bone steak on the 4th of July. :-P

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Posted by mercisan - Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:45 AM

@Sjohnson

Put a Sony battery in it. Problem solved. Kabooom!!!!

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Posted by Slash5150 - Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:25 PM

"It's how Apple makes you buy new products. Steve Jobs: "What!? Someone STILL has a first-gen Nano? Okay boys, we need this customer to buy a new one. Activate it's self-destruct sequence from here." "

Kinda like the remote kill switch that apple put on ALL of the 3G iPhones?

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