Jan 6 2007
iPod Shuffle vs. washing machine
From the MacMerc Mailbag comes this story from Joerg Kilian of Hamburg, Germany. Joerg writes:
This morning I rescued my 3 year old iPod Shuffle from a 15 minute tour in the washing machine at 40 degrees celsius. After the initial shock, I put all three seperate pieces of the hardware on a stove at not more than 60 degrees celius and allowed to dry for more than 14 hours. When switching on it showed the green light and went into play mode without any difficulties. Admittedly, I have dried the hardware succesfully at least twice before after having exposed it to extensive body sweat. Great stuff!
Interesting! We’ve read many an “I washed my iPod” story since posting our own (see iPod nano vs. washing machine) back in 2005, but this is the first “spin cycle shuffle” story and most certainly the first story sent our way of an iPod being soaked with body sweat. It could be that a wash of the shuffle was in order anyway.
Glad it survived. Thanks for the story Jorge!
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