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Japan Investigates Sparking iPods

13 Mar.

Japanese government officials, are investigating a defect that caused an Apple iPod to “shoot out” sparks whilst it was been recharged, this was reported on Wednesday.

The ministry is categorizing this incident as a fire, however luckily noone was hurt. Apple are now also been ordered to find out the cause of the incident, and report back to the government about it.

Incase you are wishing to know the model number, it was “MA099J/A” and around 425,00 of those models were shipped into Japan around September, 2006.

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