Friday, May 11, 2007
The Attack of the Killer iPods
The student Jay Thaker found in a study of 83 elderly patients that an iPod could cause telemetry interference in 29% of patients, cause a pacemaker to misread the heart's function in 20% of patients, or even stop a pacemaker in one patient from up to 18 inches away. In each case, an iPod was placed next to a patient's chest for five to ten seconds.
Time to ban iPods?
Labels: Technology