Report: iPods Don’t Cause Heart Attacks

Pete Mortensen ()

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Nine months after initial reports emerged suggested that iPods and other portable media players might have the potential to disrupt life-saving pacemakers, a further study from the FDA suggests that the risk of harm has been over-stated.

“Based on the observations of our in-vitro study we conclude that no interference effects can occur in pacemakers exposed to the iPods we tested,” they concluded.

Previous studies focused on the risks to pacemakers associated with keeping an iPod two inches from your chest. All that makes me think is that the people conducting the study aren’t too clear on how to use an iPod. Why would you strap one over your heart? And how?

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Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete's particular Apple avocations are both around design--interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!

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  • http://blog.soapyfrog.com Adrian Milliner

    My fleece jacket has a breast pocket that is just the right size for my iPhone and that’s where I normally keep it (when I’m wearing that jacket), so that’s an example of the why and how.

  • Church of Apple

    Wait, so you DIDN’T get your iPod implanted in your chest?

    What a weirdo.

  • Duke Felmet

    Apple lanyard headphones.

  • imajoebob

    This obviously didn’t consider what happens when you see the price of a 16GB touch.