Monday, July 15, 2013

iPhone Kills Woman

Progress through electricity:
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.
The fewer people we see
staring at their hands the better.
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.
Darwin smiles.

7 comments:

mikey said...

Because those are some bad-ass 500 milliamps...

Weird Dave said...

Really? Seriously?

It would take a lot to get electrocuted by a wall wart.

Weird Dave said...

In other good news.

You've probably already seen it but still...

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

The phones are getting smart enough to kill.

Weird Dave said...

iPhone IS the virus.

BadTux said...

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

jim said...

Natural selection?
There's an app for that,