Are MP3 players unsafe to use?

Question

I purchased an MP3 player and there was a warning in the guide about the computer cord. It stated that the cord was not totally safe to use, and could cause birth defects, cancer etc. Please wash your hands after each use! What do you think about that?

It's a creative music player. Read the guide, it says it right there. When I'm ripping songs from my Cd' and also downloading music from the internet. it did say wash your hands after handling the cord.

Answer 1

not the mp3 player it self, its just that some
cords have lead in them so that may cause
cancer. they just do that to cover there behinds
in case someone sues.

Answer 2

I don't think mp3 players are unsafe. I use mine everyday and I'm fine. "Wash hands after use"? It says that on my mp3 player but I just don't pay attention to it. =)

Answer 3

i have never heard of that.. but a very unsafe about mp3 players is that people crank the music up really loud in their ears.. many young people have the hearing of senior citizens now because they are listening to their music way too loud! i am guilty of it too

Answer 4

mp3 players damage ur hearing. u dont want to be a teen or an young adult person with a hearing aid do u?

Answer 5

that's scary, but if the cord generates too much electromagnetic energy it could cause cancer, like being near to a microwave. better buy something more expensive but you know it's safer.

Answer 6

i read that too but that has nothing to do with the mp3 player its just the USB cable

Answer 7

Prohibiting MP3 gamers and iPods is the main stupid rule from street Runner club of usa and different working business enterprise handed. it rather is meant for informal runners who run in parks and streets with a view to deter using headphone, so runners have greater awareness of their surrounding and shrink threat of accident. even however, they have carried the guideline into races together with marathons and nil.5 marathons, the place there are various people, besides as loads of crew and police to patrol the site visitors. as long as you shop on with the p.c.., there is minimum danger of possibility, in spite of the headphone. as a consequence, formally, lots of the races will say that MP3 gamers and iPods are prohibited. even however, in lots of the races, they'll turn ignorant of the use interior the race. I made the errors of following the advice some years in the past whilst the guideline advance into meant to be "enforced", and it advance into between the worst marathon in my existence. in view that then, I had run each marathon with my iPod Nano, in spite of the guideline. for the time of my final race, at San Francisco Marathon final month, it advance into "counseled" to no longer use iPod. there are such incredibly some iPod in SF section (being Apple headquarter) that no person rather cared. heavily, I doubt that they are going to disqualify you or made you examine your MP3 participant/iPod in in case you delivered it. merely examine with different runners on the well being expos the day until now to verify. formally, they ought to assert that, to evade any criminal criminal duty.

Answer 8

that's crazy talk, my mP3 player didnt say that!

Answer 9

what the hell what kid of mp3 is that? take it back take it back get sony!

Answer 10

thats pretty messed up