Ipod's Will Make You Go Blind.

Being an Apple fan boy (and I am one) it hurts me to say this but Apple's new ipod nano has a high risk of making you go blind.

"But wait a second West! How does a device that is meant to play music make you go blind? Don't you mean go deaf?"

No I mean they will cause you to lose your sight. Read on to find out how!

As we all know ipods have small screens on them that show you what you are listening to. Since the beginning Apple has been using simple LCD screens and it has been going well for them, but the new nanos use a totally different system. What they use is a very small vacuum tube called Cathode Ray Tubes. These tubes are about 300 times stronger than the LCD that the older model used. Not only is this technology far to powerful than the device calls for, it also uses gamma correction on all of the luminances, causing the Luminous flux to shoot up to dangerously high levels.
The Luminous flux levels.

got that?
Stay with me now, its about to get weird.

The device has such a small screen that even having the ipod up to a foot and a half is close enough to cause severe damage to your retinal ganglion cells, after a few hours of contact with this ipod you will have lost enough retinal ganglion cells to cause Glaucoma, and that will progress to blindness.


Clicking on the picture will make it larger and easier to see.

How could something like this slip by Apple? Well the problem didn't slip by apple, they actually had a recall of the nano claiming that the nano would "overheat" but we know what really happened don't we?

After the recall apple returned to the old LCD layout that has served them so well over the years and, except for a few cases, everyone is fine.

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