Last Thursday, Ma Ailun, a 23-year-old woman from China's western Xinjiang region and a flight attendant with China Southern Airlines, was electrocuted when she took a call on the charging mobile telephone, the official Xinhua news agency quoted police as saying on Sunday.
"We are deeply saddened to learn of this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the Ma family. We will fully investigate and cooperate with authorities in this matter," Apple said in an e-mail.
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| The fewer people we see staring at their hands the better. |
Darwin smiles.Apple declined to comment on details, such as whether this was an isolated case.
Ma's sister tweeted on Sina's microblog saying that Ma collapsed and died after using her charging iPhone 5 and urged users to be careful, a message that went viral on the site.
7 comments:
Because those are some bad-ass 500 milliamps...
Really? Seriously?
It would take a lot to get electrocuted by a wall wart.
In other good news.
You've probably already seen it but still...
The phones are getting smart enough to kill.
iPhone IS the virus.
I would call bullshit, except that it *is* possible if the wall socket is not properly grounded. The deal is that the 5v power on the output of the wall wart is relative to the wall socket because it's *not* a transformer, it's a semiconductor chip that "chops" the wall socket power and sends it through an LC network to smooth the result. So the phone could very well be receiving the 5 volts that it wanted, while floating 110 volts above actual physical ground (because China uses 220v as two 110v legs with opposite sine waves relative to a ground).
But electrocution? Only if you're wet and on a wet surface. Just sayin'.
- Badtux the Former Electrician Penguin
Natural selection?
There's an app for that,
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