意外隨時都可能發生！兩個月前，版主租屋處的銀箭牌電熱水器不知何故突然爆炸 ，幸好版主機靈，躲過一劫。不過，至今憶起套房內濃煙密佈的景像，依舊心有餘悸。

版主愛用蘋果公司的產品，背包常攜帶兩台以上的 iPod，以便隨時聆聽網路下載的影音檔。 今天有一則報導，說 iPod 系列產品在全球接二連三發生起火或悶燒的意外事件，心頭不免耽憂手頭的 iPod 隨身聽是否也會發生類似的意外事件。蘋果公司並未對外正式說明，目前尚難釐清真實情況，網友如有 iPod 隨身聽，還是小心為妙。  

《意外事件頻傳　iPod 無預警爆炸》

蘋果的熱門商品全球接二連三傳出爆炸起火意外！荷蘭有位駕駛人說，擺在座椅中間的 iPhone 3G 突然無故起火，當時並未充電，怎麼會起火？英國泰晤士報也踢爆，一名 11 歲英國小女孩使用 iPod 時突然爆炸起火，拿去退貨，不料蘋果公司居然逼她簽和解書，要求封口。此外，日本也接獲 18 宗報案，有人邊充電邊聽音樂，iPod 竟然起火燃燒。針對這些意外事件，蘋果公司僅說唯有第一代 iPod 的鋰電池有問題，目前並未打算全面回收。

此外，蘋果公司強調，後面幾代的 iPod 沒有問題。然而，全球各地陸續傳出 iPod 起火意外，個案接二連三，蘋果公司仍需向消費者說清楚。

 

Some iPods Pose Fire, Burn Hazards, No Recall in Sight
Date Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Source:  NEWSInferno.com (http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/10054)

  
Despite alleged efforts on the part of Apple to keep reports of iPod fires from the public, the popular devices have reportedly overheated, even flaming and smoking. These incidents have reportedly resulted in physical injury and property damage, the San Francisco Gate just reported, citing Seattle television station KIRO-TV.

The exclusive KIRO-TV report said that it took over seven months for its Consumer Investigator, Amy Clancy, to obtain documents from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) due to numerous exemptions filed by attorneys at Apple. Finally, the agency released hundreds of pages—over 800, in all—indicating that iPods have spontaneously “burst into flames, started to smoke, and even burned their owners,” said KIRO-TV.

One customer, upset over being burned by her iPod device, contacted Apple and was told she experienced an isolated incident, said KIRO-TV. The consumer asked Apple for documentation on the phenomena and for details on its corrective actions, but was told that she “wouldn’t be able to have access to it,” quoted KIRO-TV. Another consumer, whose daughter was burned by her iPod, said she got the “run-around” from Apple customer service.

KIRO 7 was able to find a number of situations in which consumers were charred and iPods had melted. The KIRO 7 investigation also revealed that the Japanese government issued a warning about “a number of accidents in which iPod Nanos” overheated and sparked, injuring two people.

Filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the CPSC to see all complaints that concerned iPods and burns or fire. It took the agency seven months to release the information to Clancy regarding burn and新 fire-related incidents that were blamed on a variety of iPods by iPod owners.

Clancy read about an “iPod overheating” and “causing damage to home and harm to minor son,” in 2005; a 17-year-old girl awakening “to find her iPod Nano ‘smoking and sparking,” in 2006; a man who “ sustained a minor shock and some redness to his left hand” …”sparks and a reddish/orange glow, in 2006; an iPod, also in 2006, that “caught fire aboard a ship with over 2,000 persons onboard”; an iPod Nano that began “billowing” smoke out of a girl’s bedroom in 2007 when her iPod “caught on fire” and had “somehow fallen on the chair next to the desk,” causing the chair to “smolder”; a man who’s Nano “suddenly burst into flames in his pocket”; and a couple who were awakened by smoke alarms in 2008 when their son’s iPod was “smoking and melted” while their son slept, to name some.

According to SFGate, “In the end, the CPSC released more than 800 pages which reveal, for the very first time, a comprehensive look that shows, on a number of occasions, iPods have suddenly burst into flames, started to smoke, and even burned their owners,” quoting KIRO-TV. The agency papers outline 15 burn- and fire-related incidents by a number of consumers from a variety of different iPod types, said the SFGate, which also pointed out that federal records indicate that Apple knew about the hazard, which is likely linked to the iPod’s lithium ion batteries, citing the report.

Meanwhile, iPods continue to be sold, come critics have raised concerns about the very popular iPhone, and a recall has not yet been issued.