Overheating iPod delays rush-hour train in Tokyo

Poor Apple. The company just can’t catch a break in this day and age. On Wednesday, Apple Japan began offering customers iPod nano replacements, giving in to local government demands to raised address an overheating battery issue affecting Apple’s first generation iPod nano players. Then Friday morning (making the English-language press only now) a busy rush-hour commuter train was stopped in Tokyo to analyze a smell. Consistent with a spokesman, ” When a member of staff went to research throughout the train, a passenger came visiting showing him that the iPod she was listening to had burst apart.” No injuries were reported and the exact iPod model continues to be unknown. However, we will be able to ensure the eight minute delay on Japan’s notoriously timely railway system caused many commuters to query their ability to head on.

[Image courtesy of Maruhachi-kotsu]

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