Woman burned when headphones explode on flight http://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-burned-when-headphones-explode-on-flight-to-australia/
That's one reason to use IEMs.
That's one reason to use IEMs.
Now headphones are bursting into flames!
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MakeMineVinyl
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IEMs like the Apple ear pods still use lithium ion batteries. In fact it could be worse if they caught fire since it would be stuffed in someone's ear canal when the fire started. That battery technology doesn't do well when manufactured as cheaply as possible.
I also wonder if they were stuffed in a bag or something beforehand. Li-Ion batteries don't like to get bent. If the headphones had been folded, spindled, mutilated, or otherwise mistreated the battery could have been damaged, leading to an uncontrolled exothermic reaction strapped to her head.
And we put them in cars...
And we put them in cars...
And that's why electric car batteries cost so much more than cell phone batteries
It's also why they're usually not placed in the crush zones. They end up getting put in places where it's not going to be a simple thing to damage them in a wreck. If they went putting them right behind the rear bumper we'd be seeing stories about "The Ford Pinto of the EV age."
MakeMineVinyl
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Yes, my ass is about a foot from a whole shitload of these batteries in my daily commute (Fiat 500e). Hope they don't decide to frag.....