Exploding Shuffle

Kids, take care of your iPods. They entertain you, keep you company, and act as a status symbol (even though you deny it). And, if one day your shuffle decides to go belly up, lay it to rest peacefully by sending it to the big iPod recycling plant in the sky. What you should by no means do is attempt to repair said shuffle by stabbing it with a large metal knife, lest you end up like this foolish fellow who hit a capacitor and had the iPod explode in his face.

In all seriousness though, whenever you are planning to open up any kind of electronic device, think first, and think twice. I've been bit more than a few times by capacitors that I hadn't properly discharged, especially when repairing cameras.

Via our sassy sister, Engadget.
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