For the sake of the topic, water being conductive is true. Technically it's not, but that is more details than necessary.. we don't care about the atomic scale here. We care about water + electronic = oh noez.

Every week, I find that my searching abilities have achieved a new tier of failure. D:

I accidentally washed my ipod nano (and headphones) a few months back. Despite knowing better, I immediately tried to turn it on to find the battery dead. Plugged it in and the backlight would only flicker on briefly. I set it infront of a fan and the light started working fully after 2 days. I was impressed.

And not conductive, eh... That's why you shouldn't be in water during a lightning storm.

Pure water free of ions, solutes, and any other impurities (distilled water) almost* does not conduct electricity. This is not the water that falls from the sky during precipitation, nor do you use it in your washing machine. (and therefore is merely an insignificant technicality for the purposes of this topic)

*The technicality to Syphon's technicality is that everything conducts electricity given a high enough voltage. (or at high enough temperatures) There is no "non-conducting" substance, not even pure water or a vacuum.
However, I doubt that an iPod's battery is outputting such voltages. (If temperature were a factor, you would be more concerned with your iPod's melting and vaporization (or other heat-triggered chemical reaction) than a short circuit.)

Post has been edited 8 time(s), last time on Jun 16 2009, 10:27 pm by Mini Moose 2707.

wow lmao

Warranty? What's it like? You could say "it just started doing this one day" and return it.

It's time you told that to your mother and get a Touch instead.

Touches are way too expensive. ;o They have very little space. >.>

Yes and yes. But it also comes with portable internet, mail, youtube, tons of games, and lots of useful utilities. Or you could also get an Iphone.

Touches are a waste of money. Expensive, little memory, and most of the good features like internet and youtube require a wireless hotspot, in which you might as well just use a computer. iphones however are pretty much the best things ever.