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?
Reuters Via Gizmodo.
iPod Heart Attack image from Global House Price Crash
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8 responses to “Report: iPods Don’t Cause Heart Attacks”
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.
Wait, so you DIDN’T get your iPod implanted in your chest?
What a weirdo.
Apple lanyard headphones.
This obviously didn’t consider what happens when you see the price of a 16GB touch.