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June 30, 2006

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The iPod nano: small, beautiful, deadly

Posted Jun. 30, ’06, 8:12 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » Humor

Packing HeatThe iPod nano is a marvel of engineering: it’s tiny, lightweight, and it sounds fantastic. But what you don’t know about this miniscule MP3 player could kill you. Eight different ways. From Sunday.

Should you ever find your life in danger, whilst possessing nothing but an iPod nano, McSweeney’s presents eight ways in which you can defend your well-being with Steve Jobs’s favorite music player. The techniques can be used to target everyone from rowdy soccer hooligans to tea lovers.

6. Carefully unstaple a tea bag and pour the contents on a plate. Break into the lithium-ion battery pack and saturate the tea with the battery’s poison, then dry the tea in the sun (or with a hair dryer if you are in a hurry). Put tea back in tea bag and bend the staple back to its original position. Put the tea bag back where you got it.
Alernatively, if you prefer a somewhat simpler solution that requires less destruction of the nano, may I suggest the next item on the list:
7. Download to the Nano “We’ve Only Just Begun” by the Carpenters. Tell someone you will give him or her your Nano if they listen to that song a hundred times in a row.
No muss, no fuss.

[via The Consumerist]


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