Last year we often read about the iPod’s ability to interfere with cardiac pacemakers.
One test was made by a college student with this result:
When an iPod was held above five centimeters from the chests of the patients for five to 10 seconds, electrical interference was detected in about half of the 800 trials.
Pacemakers misfired because they may have mistaken electronic signals from iPods as a rhythm problem.
Now a U.S. Food and Drug Administration researcher says that portable media players such as iPods are unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers.
Tests of a variety of iPods showed they did not produce enough of an electromagnetic field to interfere with heart monitoring devices.
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