Recent FDA Study Reveals That iPods Don’t Affect Pacemakers

The FDA have recently conducted a study which has proven that, contrary to previous studies involving iPod media players and cardiac pacemakers, Apple’s iPods do not affect the heart beat regulators.

The study was published by the FDA on BioMedical Engineering Online and revealed that the tests concluded that the iPods didn’t produce a large enough electromagnetic field to cause any interference.

An iPod Shuffle, iPod nano, iPod with video and a fourth generation iPod was used in the study. The iPods were held 10mm from a 3-coil sensor and a peak strength of only 0.2 millionth of a Tesla was detected. For any interference to be caused, the value would have needed to be a hundred times larger.

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