Headphones Can Interfere with Pacemakers: Study

by Techno News | 11/11/2008 01:00:00 AM in |


It should be common sense that electronic devices can cause interference with other electronic devices (remember the old pacemaker / microwave problem?). I wrote earlier about RFID tags interfering with medical devices, a study released on Sunday shows that headphones might throw off pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) when placed within an inch of the medical devices.

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