A new study by a 17 year old high school student showing that iPods can negatively affect pacemakers has prompted an ongoing investigation to other possible side effects for the popular portable music device.

5 newly discovered effects have been released:

• Insomnia - 100,348 cases have reported where people claimed having an inability to sleep without the use of an iPod.
• ADHD - prolonged exposure to the sounds produced by the iPod has caused a reported 1,238,205 individuals to develop ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) due to increased dependency on background music.
• Paranoid Schizophrenia - 60,304 iPod users have developed paranoid schizophrenia as their brains now translate the noises they hear as people being “out to get them”.
• Spontaneous combustion - the heat given off by the iPod has been linked to at least 5,325 cases of spontaneous combustion.
• Death - so far there have been 32,303 reported cases of iPod causing death (number does not include those associated with spontaneous combustion).

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