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Bloomberg, in typical sensationalist fashion, calls this a "dangerous iPad2 flaw" when defibrillator patients are already educated about the risk of magnets and

by tankbot 13y ago

Bloomberg, in typical sensationalist fashion, calls this a "dangerous iPad2 flaw" when defibrillator patients are already educated about the risk of magnets and Apple's manual informs users of the magnets and warns against this exact problem. They continue (in the video) and lump pacemakers into the warning even though their own article specifies that pacemakers were unaffected: "The iPad2 didn’t interfere with four pacemakers or a loop-recorder, which were also tested." tl;dr - 14 year old's dad does her science fair project for her and doesn't win. Nobody learns anything and the news gets it all wrong.

ctdonath 13y ago
Not fair. It was her idea, she concocted the theory, investigation and reported the results. Insofar as she didn't do part of the full experiment, no teenager should be allowed to carry out casual experiments involving shutting off life-support equipment on heart patients - duh, let an adult handle that bit. That she didn't win doesn't mean anything more than the winners were better projects, drama aside. People DID learn something. Awareness is spreading about the issues of proliferation of magnets strong enough to cause false inputs to implanted medical devices. The only thing the news got wrong was the subtle jab at Apple, rather than a more neutral reference to the many magnet-containing products which have similar odds of the same problem.
- elithrar 13y ago
  > It was her idea, she concocted the theory, investigation and reported the results. As far as Bloomberg reports. Her father is hinted as being a heart surgeon ("given her father's specialty") but it's never explicitly pointed out in the article. She's obviously extremely intelligent—and I have no qualms with a 14 yo getting some hints from their parents for a project idea—but the article seems designed to sensationalise an issue that has long existed. "Apple story == page views".
  - tenderpalms 13y ago
    Dad is a cardiac electrophysiologist.
  - ctdonath 13y ago
    So dad's a heart doctor. Mine's a digital electronics engineer. No wonder my science fair projects favored computers and her's heart health.
- tankbot 13y ago
  > Not fair. You're right, of course. I was being overly cynical. These types of "news" stories just get my hackles up.

by tankbot 13y ago

ctdonath 13y ago

Not fair. It was her idea, she concocted the theory, investigation and reported the results. Insofar as she didn't do part of the full experiment, no teenager should be allowed to carry out casual experiments involving shutting off life-support equipment on heart patients - duh, let an adult handle that bit. That she didn't win doesn't mean anything more than the winners were better projects, drama aside. People DID learn something. Awareness is spreading about the issues of proliferation of magnets strong enough to cause false inputs to implanted medical devices. The only thing the news got wrong was the subtle jab at Apple, rather than a more neutral reference to the many magnet-containing products which have similar odds of the same problem.

elithrar 13y ago
> It was her idea, she concocted the theory, investigation and reported the results. As far as Bloomberg reports. Her father is hinted as being a heart surgeon ("given her father's specialty") but it's never explicitly pointed out in the article. She's obviously extremely intelligent—and I have no qualms with a 14 yo getting some hints from their parents for a project idea—but the article seems designed to sensationalise an issue that has long existed. "Apple story == page views".
- tenderpalms 13y ago
  Dad is a cardiac electrophysiologist.
- ctdonath 13y ago
  So dad's a heart doctor. Mine's a digital electronics engineer. No wonder my science fair projects favored computers and her's heart health.
tankbot 13y ago
> Not fair. You're right, of course. I was being overly cynical. These types of "news" stories just get my hackles up.