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CNN: iPods can make pacemakers malfunction

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Fri, 05/11/2007 - 8:23am

Hopefully I'll never have to worry about this, but older geeks out there might. A recent study of 100 people with pacemakers determined that iPods can generate electrical interference that can cause implantable pacemakers to malfunction, recording erroneous data and even stopping all together in one case.