Exploding headphones

[HiWire]

I think I'll stick with wired headphones for now:

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/15/14938788/headphones-explosion-airplane-sleeping-woman

[Dusty Chalk]

Yeezh.

[wink]

She bought it as a "Hot ticket item"... 

[HiWire]

Not sure if the Apple AirPods present a similar risk.

[spritzer]

I doubt it.  She was on a flight from China and given how cheap Chinese shit treats lithium batteries...yeah the Apple stuff will be just fine. 

[wink]

..... if you don't like sideburns.......   if you like hair   

... if you do like side burns.....        as in facial disfugurement........   

[HiWire]

I was saying "boo urns."

[Torpedo]

From what I read elsewhere, the headphones could have been of the headband type, perhaps noise cancelling like Bose QuietComfort, using larger rechargeable batteries of the AA or AAA type. I've used this type of batteries of Chinese make and are very very poor quality, nothing to do with the quality of the OEM batteries being used in Apple and other reputed brands products. The fault wasn't on the headphones and their brand, but on the batteries.

[wink]

Can the victim sue the battery manufacturer for assault and battery...?  

[DefQon]

21 hours ago, wink said:

Can the victim sue the battery manufacturer for assault and battery...?  

Given that manufacturers in China can start up anytime and can close down the very next day means shit all with a potential lawsuit by the product user.

Edited March 21, 2017 by DefQon

[Whitigir]

Wow! That is one good way to forever ruin your eardrums. Scary!

[G600]

Was it a Dynahi-powered Beats© ?

[rod]

She just thought her ears were burning because someone was talking about her.

[Fitz]

Holy necropost, batman.

[grawk]

he's very careful to not post a lot, but when he does, it's not worth reading