There's some context not obvious in that video: The machine as a whole fails, yes, but the only part of it that malfunctioned was the hard drive. The rest of th

There's some context not obvious in that video: The machine as a whole fails, yes, but the only part of it that malfunctioned was the hard drive. The rest of the electronics in there are solid-state, and won't (okay, will be, but only minutely, and not enough to cause failure) be affected by the magnet. Your cell-phone is magnet safe.