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Apple Forced To Pay Tokyo Couple $7,400 After iPod Nano Bursts Into Flames

(3:24 am PDT, Apr 13th 2012)

Apple Forced To Pay Tokyo Couple $7,400 After iPod Nano Bursts Into Flames

If you've got a first-generation iPod nano, get it replaced before it looks like this.

Apple has been forced to pay a couple in Tokyo, Japan, ¥600,000 (approx. $7,400) for medical fees and pain and suffering after their first-generation iPod nano spontaneously burst into flames, causing burns to the hand that took more than a month to completely heal.

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Running a 21km Apple Logo as a Tribute to Steve Jobs

(3:33 pm PDT, Aug 27th 2011)

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(all images: Joseph Tame)

In a unique kinetic tribute to Steve Jobs, media producer and marathon runner Joseph Tame has run a 21km long course though the streets of Tokyo in the shape of the Apple logo – and tracked the entire endeavor on his iPhone with GPS and an exercise app.

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