Random, but funny story.

Off-topic
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My cousin is in fourth year Bachlor’s of Science (BS) at Queens U in Kingston(ia), Ontairo. Well, today he had a lab with an NMR machine. This is a machine that analizes stuff for stuff (I am way too lazy to explain what it does and it’s importance in organic chemistry). It uses big magnets to do this. Well, credit cards don’t life big magnets. His credit card got a little bit too close.

Moral of the story, do not use high powered mangets near your credit card. Or iPod. That would have sucked too.

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That is crap, its so easy for it to happen.
Were i work we have these prolock unlocker things that are situated right next to the eftpos machine, so far i have damaged one person’s card.

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credit card yes

Ipod no , i know from experience magnets’even High powered one dont affect Ipods

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Yeah, they conduct electricity and are magnetic!
Does his card still work?

5

I’ve had a magnetic hotel key card erased by keeping it in the same pocket as my cell phone.

Ever since then keep my cards with magnetic strips in a separate pocket than the cell phone.

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Magneticly encoded data WILL be damaged by strong magnets. any credit card, floppy disk or hard disk based ipod will be affected. flash memory like in the nanos and shuffles wont be screwed. my brother and I used to have fun destroying old floppys with huge magnets.

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true. it would take an electromagnetic pulse to damage an ipod or other electronic device. credit cards, hard drives, and floppies are damaged by magnetic fields becuase the memory is magnetically based, and the field disturbs the information. an ipod will not be damaged by a simple magnetic field because it is not magnetically stored, its flash memory, just like one of those little keychain-memory sticks.

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I thought iPods had hard-drives in them.

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Some of them do. All flash memory, nano, thumb drives, etc. wont be affected by magnets. HOWEVER, any iPod (or device with a hard drive), will be affected by magnetic forces. The severity of the damage might not even be noticable depending on the strength of the magnet and how far away it is/how well an ipod is protected.

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Anyone ever run a magnet over an LCD (such as those on the face of nearly ever cell phone and mp3 player in existence)? I bet magnets don’t damage them, either.

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Nope, magnets dont affect LCDs at all.

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I guess I made a mistake. It’s CRT (big old tube monitors) that they affect.

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I put a BIG magnet on a tv once (and only once :roll_eyes: ). It made a nasty puple spot that stayed for a long time. My dad somehow demagnetized the screen but the color is still abit off!:stuck_out_tongue: