“Just about three weeks ago I posted a review of my new favorite gadget, the iPod nano… Well I’m sad to report that my nano had accidently had a run-in with the washing machine on Saturday morning… The nano is light enough that it turns out you can’t really tell when it’s in a shirt pocket and when it’s not. On this Saturday morning it was, and unfortunately the shirt was in the washer. I got ahold of it after about a minute in the dryer, so the little white contraption had already experienced a warm wash, cool rinse and exciting spin cycle,” jonknee reports for MacMerc.”
Pictures of “the little iPod that could” and the story of how a little drying time goes a long way for nanos that go through the wash in the full article here.
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Apple iPod nano takes a beating and keeps on beating – September 12, 2005
One time? At band camp? I stuck the nano in my whatnot, but it plays fine now.
So doesn’t anyone see a difference between putting a compact flash or thumb drive through the wash, and a powered device like a nano or cell phone?
I would think the flash sticks by themselves, being without any power of their own would fare a lot better than a nano with its little battery plugged into the circuit board and all ready to burn up a few surprisingly linked short circuits.
That little nano in the article got lucky, IMO.
BTW, was he using an anti-static sheet in the dryer? hehehehe