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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Burn, baby burn
That's now an iPod Classic looks after a few minutes being too close to a fluorescent lamp.
It still works perfectly, but the naviation has become trickier.
8 comments:
James
said...
Eolake: I would say that this is a poor design flaw that was not even considered by Apple designers/engineers. Mind you it makes for a great example of a new type of 'built-in obsolescence'!
8 comments:
Eolake: I would say that this is a poor design flaw that was not even considered by Apple designers/engineers. Mind you it makes for a great example of a new type of 'built-in obsolescence'!
I don't understand.... did the heat do this, or the extreme proximity to the radiation emitted by the fluorescent lamp?
It must be the heat. The whole unit was actually too hot to hold!
Are you sure you didn't mean an incandescent lamp? I ask because fluorescent lamps generally don't get terribly hot.
You're probably right. It's a short, thick tube.
It can be tuned up or down, up to 300W. I had it much lower than that.
So, if I get this right, you put something made of plastic in front of a heating element and were surprised when it melted????
Word verification? TWATTO
ROFLMAO (IT!)
Yeah, it's pretty dumb.
But I thought it was glass, like the ipad screen. And I had no idea it got *that* hot. Like I said, I had it turned way down.
So... I'm assuming the damage is permanent?
"Oh, not at all. Like Chernobyl's reactor core, it returned to normal after cooling down a mere 50 years."
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