“iPods are unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration researcher reported on Thursday,” Maggie Fox reports for Reuters.
“His tests of a variety of iPods showed they did not produce enough of an electromagnetic field to interfere with the devices,” Fox reports.
“FDA researcher Howard Bassen and colleagues set up a complex experiment using a saline-filled bag to simulate the human body and a coil sensor designed to pick up electromagnetic emissions,” Fox reports. “They measured the magnetic fields produced by four different iPod models: a fourth-generation iPod and an iPod with video, and an iPod nano and an iPod shuffle. They also measured the voltages delivered to the inside of the pacemaker by the magnetic fields from the iPods.”
Fox reports, “All their measurements indicated the iPods could not affect cardiac pacemakers, they reported in the journal BioMedical Engineering OnLine.”
Full article here.
I had the vagus notion that they wouldn’t.
Now what about those idiots on the net that kept posting story after story about the dangers of the iPods. I think its time to hit them up and have them apologize for posting such articles that generated so much FUD and I’m sure caused some sales for iPods.
Wow that’s a releif. I can go to family picnics again.
Just my $0.02
Great! Now i don’t have to choose between my iPod and my pacemaker!
@ Ampar
LOL
Aorta?
Yes, Radius and it’s still shocking.
Why not make it a little more realistic. Instead of using a bag of saline, try a bag of hot air named Dick Cheney.
His ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator) is close enough to a pacemaker to make it viable.
Why put valuable saline at risk when we have something else that is totally expendable? Save The Saline!
@ LorD1776
LOL!!!
Is the saline complaining of being assaulted?
Jaysus Ampar you are on a roll today.
Damn, I’d just sent Dick Cheney a whole crate of iPods!
Yes, the Darth Vader Edition.
Mr Reeee, this is Homeland Security. May we talk with you?
You guys are killin’ me!
My wife just pulled a batch of fresh baked cookies out of the oven.
I’m gonna have one for each of you. I hope you enjoy them.
I love vagus!
What happens in vagus, stays in vagus.
In an attempt to capitalize on the runaway success of the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, Ticker Venture Capital has recently underwritten an aggressive R&D;effort that will bring to market a Jarvis+iPod Heart Kit that can keep a pacemaker in tempo with iPod music — and vice versa. Detailed surgical instructions will provided with the Kit. However, please do not shuffle before consulting with your doctor.
“Sheer heart attack
Sheer heart attack
Real cardiac
I feel so in-ar in-ar in-ar in-ar in-ar in-ar in-ar in-ar-tic-u-late”
Clear!
Bzzzzzzzzt