Can a person's charger be killed. IPhone killer. Selfie from mind

Murder committed in South Korea. The main defendant is a cell phone from a local manufacturer, LG. The bloody body of a 33-year-old Chengwon resident was found by his work colleagues, who immediately called the police and " ambulance"Law enforcement officials found a cell phone with a melted battery in the shirt pocket of the deceased." The man received a chest burn, his ribs and spine were broken. Death came from the pressure caused by the explosion on the heart and lungs, "- said the medical examiners after examining the body.

Representatives of the company "LG Electronics", one of the five largest suppliers of mobile phones in the world, have not yet commented on the incident. "We are finding out," the company’s Moscow office told Trud with irritation.

Oddly enough, mobile phone explosions are not uncommon. In the USA, for example, an average of 50 cell phones explode and ignite spontaneously every year. According to experts, the main reason is the use of damaged or fake batteries.

In the summer of this year, a worker died in China, whose phone also exploded in his pocket. Just two months ago, in India, a Nokia phone battery exploded in a woman's hands - the victim received burns. The company will pay monetary compensation for moral and physical damage. In 2003, a resident of the Netherlands was injured while talking on the phone - the Nokia device exploded and caught fire right next to her ear. As a result, the woman received burns to her face and neck. According to a company spokesman, "a fake battery was the cause of the incident."

Experts from the Department of Industry and Commerce of the South China province of Guangdong conducted a study. Experts have tested 40 batches of batteries for various brands of mobile phones and found that only 60 percent of them meet the quality and safety requirements. Batteries of "Motorolla" and "Nokia" mobile phones explode more often than others.

\u003e We are completely confident in those batteries that are sold in our center, - said "Trudu" in the official Moscow service center by LG. - It makes no difference for us whether they are made in Korea or in China. We have nothing to do with the products that are sold outside our center. What is being sold there, we do not know.

\u003e Over the past year, they have never been approached with a claim for the exploded telephone, - Victoria, the manager of the claims department of Euroset, told Trud. - I have not heard that something like this happened in Russia.

\u003e According to analyst firm IDC, last year LG ranked sixth in terms of sales among global mobile phone manufacturers supplying their products to Russia. She managed to borrow 3.5 percent russian market... And the first five looks like this: Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, BenQ-Siemens, Sony Ericsson.

"The explosion of Chinese batteries is commonplace"

Alexander Puchkov, service engineer:

The first and most likely reason a mobile phone could explode is if the lithium battery is faulty. Lithium is an alkali metal that quickly oxidizes in air and begins to release hydrogen. Hydrogen is a very flammable gas, it explodes at the slightest contact with a spark. If the battery case is leaking (and this is possible if the manufacturing technology is violated), then lithium leakage is inevitable. A spark could arise from short circuit... By the way, they did not dare to put lithium batteries into use for a long time precisely because they could not develop an appropriate safety technique.

The second reason is a possible malfunction in a device called a controller. It sits in a circuit between the phone charger and the battery. If the controller is defective, the battery begins to heat up during charging, gases are released that rupture the battery case. An explosion is more likely if the phone is assembled in China. Violation of battery technology is common there. By the way, you can recall the recent scandal with the regular explosions of Sony laptops. Batteries for them were made in China, and then it was the "left" batteries that ruined not a single dozen computers.

We love our smartphones. For us, they are everything: maps, a compass, a cinema, a game library, a library, a music library, a way of communicating with the whole world ... And we also sometimes call. Many people experience anxiety attacks when they realize that they have left home without their digital friend.

Few thought that the thing we love so much could one day lead to our death. In fact, more people nowadays die trying to take selfies than shark attacks! It's probably more dangerous just to take a selfie with a shark. Below are the 10 strangest deaths caused by our favorite electronic devices.

10. A man fell from a high cliff while using his phone.

We all write messages on the go, and that's wrong. While we go home, we shop in the store or walk in the park. While we are walking, burying our eyes on our smartphone, we can bump into something or someone, but nevertheless, with the help of our sixth sense, we constantly manage to take our eyes off the screen at the very moment when it remains a few seconds. Unfortunately for Joshua Burwell, his sixth sense let him down.

For Christmas 2015, Burwell traveled to the picturesque Sunset Cliffs, San Diego, where tourists and locals flock to watch the sunset. People go there hoping to take a beautiful sunset photo for Instagram and get as many likes as possible, and Burwell was no exception. But he clung so hard to his smartphone that he didn't even notice as he left the safe part of the cliff. He continued walking until he was on the very edge and fell from a height of 18 meters. People nearby heard someone calling for help, and a small group of daredevils made a dangerous descent down where they found Joshua. Unfortunately, by the time they descended from him, he was already dead.

Witnesses say they saw Burwell walking up the cliff with his phone on his back and just tripped over the edge and fell. "He wasn't looking where he was going; he was looking down at his phone screen," said one of the witnesses to the incident.

9. The man was killed after using the "Find my phone" function.

Many of you throw your phone anywhere. The worst part is that it always happens exactly when the phone is in vibration mode or even "Silent". For those frustrated, there are tracking apps - perhaps the best thing they've ever come up with.

But it may be the last application you have used in your life. In February 2016, a 23-year-old man from Birmingham, Alabama, USA, had his iPhone stolen. Remembering that he could use an app to track a smartphone and locate it, he found out that his phone was active and knew exactly what address it was at. Encouraged, he went to the indicated address - to the parking lot of the suburban Baptist church. Using the tracking app, he sent a beep to his phone and heard it in the car next to him. When he tried to climb into it to retrieve his phone, the kidnapper shot him. The young man died on the spot.

The police chief said, "If you have this app on your phone, contact your local police department. Let the police do their job and retrieve the stolen property from you. Don't try to fix the problem yourself - things like that don't usually end well."

8. A man caused a serious accident by sending messages while driving.

Every driver believes that he is a good enough driver and can take his eyes off the road for a few seconds in order to write a text message. But it turns out that, according to statistics, in the United States, every fourth road traffic accident occurs due to the fact that the driver was distracted by writing a message.

Consider the following fact: if you are driving at 80-100 kilometers per hour, you are driving through a football field in the time it takes to write a short text message. Unfortunately, one young man did not know this.

On the morning of August 5, 2010, a 19-year-old guy from Missouri, USA, was driving his car to work as usual. His pickup drove into back truck, whereupon the school bus entered his pickup truck behind him, and the second school bus in turn entered the first school bus. A young man and a 15-year-old schoolboy were killed on the spot, and another 38 people were seriously injured. Police said examining the pickup driver's cell phone showed that he had sent five text messages in the two minutes before his death.

After the incident, the US National Transportation Security official said: “It is impossible to know for sure whether the driver was typing a message on the phone or reading it during the accident, but it is clear that his hands, thoughts and eyes were distracted from the road. was his priority. No post, no message, no renewal cost a human life. "

7. The girl died from an electric shock when she answered a phone call.

For most of us, picking up the phone and answering a call is as natural as breathing, and we treat it as one of the most mundane and low-risk things. Ma Eilong, a 23-year-old girl from China, probably thought the same.

Eilong's sister, who was present at the tragic accident, told investigators that Ma connected her iPhone to the charger in the same way she probably did 1000 times before. Eilun heard the ring and took the phone to answer while it was still plugged into the charger. She received an electric shock, fainted and died before the ambulance arrived.

While Apple representatives did not comment on the incident, they immediately offered their condolences to the family and began their own investigation of the strange death. All evidence indicated that Eilun was using an officially licensed charger Apple denies claiming that the unlicensed accessory has become possible reason her death. To date, Apple has not released the details of its investigation.

6. The woman buried her phone while crossing the road.

Every second you need to know what is happening around you, especially when you use your mobile phone in public places, especially if you are a pedestrian and walk in a stream of people. You can endlessly list the risks that you face using your smartphone on the go, but there are more and more people walking down the street and buried in their phone every year. They often don't realize how close they are to being the victim of a terrible accident.

In 2015, a woman from Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, China, was crossing the road as usual, an action so common that she could do it on autopilot without paying due attention to traffic on the road. She looked down at her phone and crossed the lane, but a moment later she was pushed by a truck in the oncoming lane and was thrown into the lane she had just crossed. Having no time to come to her senses and get up, she immediately found herself under the wheels of another large truck, the driver of which did not have time at all to react to the person who was in his way. The woman died on the spot.

Most likely, even if a woman had time to get up, it would hardly have changed her fate much. China has one of the highest rates of pedestrian deaths due to the law that any driver who seriously injures a pedestrian must cover all medical expenses of the victim for the rest of their life. Harming a pedestrian can cost millions of dollars, which is why there is a popular saying in China: "It is better to hit and kill than to hit and cripple."

Because of this, there have been many recorded cases in China of people hitting a pedestrian and then backing up and driving over the victim several times to kill him. Even children were not spared. It also doesn't help that most people who run over someone to death receive rather lenient sentences and don't even serve a prison sentence.

In this case, the woman herself is to blame, as decided by the court and common sense. And by law, her family will not receive any compensation, and the truck driver and the company he worked for will not be held liable.

5. The man got into the trash press to return the lost phone.

We are more afraid that our phone will break than any other thing. Many do things that they would never normally do, and all in order to get their favorite phone back. On the internet, you can find thousands of stories and videos of people diving down the toilet to save their phone. All moral norms and fears go down the drain when a person is overwhelmed by the fear of losing his phone.

It was this fear that caused the terrible incident that took place in Illinois, USA. In 2013, Roger Mirro told one of his neighbors that he accidentally dropped his phone in a garbage chute. He looked everywhere for the key to gain access to the room where all the trash gets, where he hoped to find his phone and save him from the press. And then Roger disappeared, disappeared for a very short time, only for three hours. This fact made Roger's wife go to the police.

After talking with residents of the residential complex, investigators went to the garbage collection facility and found that the lock on the door had been torn off. They entered and climbed the stairs to the top of the garbage press. Unfortunately, inside they found the mutilated body of Roger Mirro.

4. The woman threw herself into the fire to save her phone.

Why would you rush into a burning house? Why would you risk your life? For a child? Definitely yes! For a loved one? Yes! For a smartphone? Mmmm ... no. A smartphone is clearly not something worth risking your life for. But Wendy Ribolt thought differently.

Wendy's home from Bartonville, Illinois, USA, caught fire while she and her teenage daughter were inside. Fortunately, they both managed to escape unharmed, despite the fact that the fire engulfed everything around them. Then Ribolt remembered that she had left her phone in the house and ran back to pick it up. But the second time the burning house did not release her.

The policeman who arrived first to the call tried to save her, but the smoke was too pungent to get deep into the house. He was later hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning. When firefighters arrived at the scene, they also tried to enter the house to save the woman, but by that time the fire was too strong and they had to stop searching until the fire was extinguished. An autopsy revealed that Ribault died of severe carbon monoxide poisoning.

3. The girl was killed by electric shock while trying to take the perfect selfie.

Who knew that a simple front-facing camera innovation on a smartphone would become as important as it is today? Wherever you go, you will meet people taking selfies, and you certainly cannot go to social networkswithout bumping into millions of selfies. In fact, most of the photos on the phones of modern users are selfies.

Popularization of selfies in modern society has inevitably spawned what many call "selfie culture" in which everyone tries to outdo each other by showing how great their lives are through beautiful or epic selfies. People go to the highest mountain or look for the most scenic spots for their photos. And in 2014, the first "Olympic Selfie Games" took place, during which people tried to take the most unusual and funny selfies. But the desire to take the perfect photo can lead to bad consequences, and even death.

Anna Ursu, an 18-year-old girl from Bucharest, Romania, was a prime example. In May 2015, Anna, like many teenagers her age, was absorbed front camera your phone while trying to take the perfect selfie. Anna and her friend decided to head to the train depot to take some photos. One of them offered to climb onto the roof of the carriage and take a picture there. Anna's friend claims that everything was fine until Anna touched the wire that passed over the train, trying to take a selfie. The wire was under high voltage. At the same second, Anna was electrocuted. The voltage was so high that the girl caught fire.

The girl was quickly rushed to a Bucharest hospital in the hope of saving her life, but her burns were too severe. Anisia Iliescu, doctor in the department emergency care, told reporters that Ursa could not be saved due to her physical condition. “Almost her entire body was burned,” the doctor stated.

2. The man's phone exploded.

We try our best to protect our phones. We buy covers, screen protectors, and tons of other accessories to avoid damaging our devices. The smartphone accessories industry expects to generate more than $ 38 billion in revenue in 2017. We are afraid that our smartphones will be damaged or broken. But perhaps we are the ones who need protection from our smartphones?

In 2010, Gopal Guijar from India was tending his flock and talking on a Nokia mobile phone, as he did so many times when the phone suddenly exploded right next to his ear, killing the young man. When the investigators arrived at the scene, they found Guyzhar lying on the ground with severe burns and injuries to his ear, head, neck and shoulders, pieces of his badly damaged phone lying around. As it later became known, Nokia had problems with fake batteries that caused phones to explode.

Unfortunately, this is not the only death caused by a phone explosion. Such deaths have been reported in China and Nepal. Representatives from each of the companies involved in the accident reported investigations into these strange deaths and pledged to conduct as much research as possible to prevent similar accidents in the future.

1. Three children drowned while their mother played on her phone.

Children always need protection from their parents, but we all know that modern parents are not always responsible for their obligations.

In 2015, in a town called Irving, Texas, USA, Patricia Allen went to the pool in her residential complex together with three children (she had five children in total). It was reported that she and her husband knew that the children did not know how to swim, but the husband convinced his wife that the children swim well enough to be in the pool. Terrible, but all three children drowned. Witnesses stated that Allen was by the pool, but was constantly looking at her phone. She began to panic when she realized that she could not find her children.

James McClellan of Irving Police Department recounted the words of witnesses to reporters: “The witnesses went to the pool and saw that the mother was sitting on the edge and desperately peering into its deep part. They also noticed that the water was still and calm, and there were no hesitation, splashes or bubbles there was no water. After the mother found nothing, she got up and left the pool. "

Later, the children's bodies were lifted from the bottom of the deepest part of the pool. Children could be alive if their mother was not so passionate about her smartphone.

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Stewardess Ma Ailun died from a powerful electric shock when she answered the call of her mobile phone while it was charging. Now the family of the deceased is waiting for "an explanation of what happened" from Apple, the older sister of the deceased girl says on her blog Sina Weibo, ITAR-TASS reports, citing Xinhua news agency.

“I hope that all iPhone owners will refrain from using them while charging,” she wrote on her microblog page, noting that her deceased sister used a genuine iPhone 5.

The police, in turn, confirmed that the girl died from an electric shock, but all the circumstances of the death have yet to be clarified.

Meanwhile, Apple has already conveyed its condolences to Ma Ailyun's relatives and expressed "deep regrets" about the incident, stating that it would cooperate with the investigation into the incident.

Note that the case with the Chinese woman is not the only one when mobile phones have resulted in severe injury or death. So, in France, an 18-year-old boy received an eye injury while looking at a smartphone that exploded in his hands and damaged his face with small fragments. Apple then said that spontaneous iPhone explosion impossible.

In India, 23-year-old Gopal Gujar was killed in the explosion of a Nokia 1209 mobile phone - the handset exploded while the young man was on the phone.

A resident of Thailand said that the iPhone 5 began to spark and smoke right in his hands during a conversation. The man was not injured, because he threw an expensive smartphone on the floor in time, after which, according to him, there was a sound like a firecracker explosion.

In the Chinese province of Guangzhou, a male seller was killed by an unspecified mobile phone explosion. We only know that the phone exploded a few seconds after a new battery was inserted into it.

In India, 30-year-old Kishori Saha suffered burns when her Nokia mobile phone exploded 10 minutes after the handset was charged. A Nokia spokesman said at the time that the explosion of a Nokia battery was "an isolated case."

For exploded iPod Touch received compensation in $ 75 thousand. A resident of Texas (USA), which turned out to be burned eyes and face.

Explosion killed 22-year-old in China battery a Motorola mobile phone that was in the left breast pocket at the time. As a result, the young man's broken rib damaged his heart. According to one version, the battery exploded due to the high air temperature on the day of the accident.

Last year in Grozny, three people were injured when in the cabin cellular communication tried to connect the iPhone to the charger.

The greatest health hazard does not come from electromagnetic radiation, as most people think, but from electric current. Another sad confirmation of this was about the deceased Moscow schoolgirl - her body with a trace of electrical trauma was found in the bathtub by the teen's mother, next to the deceased was a burnt mobile phone.

The fact is that modern chargers are designed according to the circuit of a pulse voltage converter. In other words, if the old chargers consistently gave out the required amount of volts (1, 3, 5), now everything works differently: inside the charger there are power elements that sometimes operate at voltages above 220 volts.

The case with a Moscow schoolgirl is far from the only one. In July 2013, Chinese woman Ma Ai Lun was electrocuted after she got out of the shower and took the connected iPhone 5 with her wet hands: the case turned out to be so loud that Apple officially offered condolences.

In February 2015, a 24-year-old Muscovite dropped an iPhone 4 into a full bathtub - the girl was killed by an electric shock that passed through the cable that charged the smartphone. A year later, a 14-year-old schoolgirl (also from Moscow) overtook a similar fate: bath, exercise, smartphone, death.

Poor quality "charging".However, water is not always needed for a sad outcome. In the early 2010s, copies of popular smartphones were sold on a gigantic scale in Asia. These devices were unsafe: there are at least two known cases when calls from "burned" phones that were on the charger turned out to be fatal. Water was no longer required for this.

Storm- not the time to talk. In addition, an important rule must be remembered: in no case should you talk on the phone during a thunderstorm, if you are in an open space. In July last year, in the west of Moscow, the life of a worker named Aydar was interrupted: while his colleagues in the brigade were hiding under a tree, he had an intimate conversation, which ended with a lightning strike on the phone. They did not manage to save Aydar: death was almost instantaneous.

Battery explosion. Another nuisance that can happen with a smartphone is an explosion. In 2007, a 22-year-old Chinese man was killed by a smartphone explosion in the breast pocket of his jacket (a shrapnel hit his heart), and in 2009 an exploded battery hit the cervical artery of a Guangzhou resident.

Smaller incidents happen every few months. For example, in 2014, a smartphone exploded right in the hands of a Chinese woman riding a bus. In the same year Samsung Galaxy S4 caused a fire in the bed of a 13-year-old girl from North Texas. And already this year, a Belarusian student unsuccessfully disconnected the battery from lenovo smartphone - it exploded and burned the carpet.

As a rule, manufacturers do not admit their guilt in such emergencies. First, they appeal to safety. Secondly, they require to charge the smartphone only with original chargers. And thirdly, they disclaim responsibility if the battery installed in the smartphone was not branded.

Selfie from mind

In September last year, Mashable published monstrous statistics: in 2015, more people died while trying to take a selfie than from a shark attack.

The world is obsessed with "crossbows" - for the sake of a successful shot, people are ready for anything. Below is a selection of several accidents that could have been avoided if smartphones did not have front-facing cameras.

The 17-year-old Russian woman did not live to come of age because of Instagram: the girl took a selfie on a 10-meter bridge, fell, grabbed a high-voltage cable and died on the spot.

The 19-year-old Volgograd resident wanted to scare his beloved: he climbed into the noose, put the boxes under his feet and even took out his phone to take a selfie. The crates suddenly collapsed, and the teenager met death in a noose.

A teenager from the Kemerovo region dreamed of a spectacular selfie on a high-voltage power line support. So the guy learned what it means to sacrifice life for a dream. True, I still failed to take a selfie.

The Muscovite took selfies on the outside of the balcony, but did not take into account that he was on the 20th floor. Fall, death on the spot.

Crayfish are not found here

Now, from real threats to the most common misconception about the dangers of smartphones, namely the myth that electronic devices cause cancer. Each year, studies are published that contradict each other. Some scientists (for example, experts of the scientific journal Electromagnetic Biology & Medicine) argue that magnetic radiation from smartphones and Wi-Fi routers can adversely affect human health and even cause cancer.

For 10 years, other scientists analyzed the condition of 12 thousand people from 13 countries, spent 24 million dollars, but found that conversations on a mobile and landline phone equally harmful if overused. The conclusion was completely abstract: some people who talk on the phone for 30 minutes or more a day for ten years have a higher risk of cancer than others. How much higher is unknown. Which people are at risk is also a mystery.

The truth is that only those who did business on them benefited from the frightening rumors: in the markets and in underground passages, you can still find shiny stickers that supposedly take all the radiation on themselves.

However, no less right to life has the point of view that, in fact, telephones do not affect the development of cancer in any way. In Australia, a journal of cancer epidemiology is kept - all diseases have been recorded there since 1982. To conduct a study, scientists simply compared data from medical records of 34 thousand men and women from 1982 to 2012.

Disease statistics were superimposed on mobile phone distribution statistics. In 1993, 10% of the population had them, in 2012 - 95% of the population. Of course, the number of patients with brain cancer (namely, telephones are usually blamed for its occurrence) did not increase proportionally.

Most scientists agree: to get brain cancer, a person needs to expose himself to more powerful and prolonged radiation than that generated by a mobile phone.

"IN THE USA cell Phones everywhere. We expected to see brain cancer rates go up, but that's not what we're seeing at all. Since the 1980s, rates have steadily declined, "said professor of pediatrics Aaron Carroll (he based the conclusion on an experiment with rats that were exposed to electromagnetic radiation).

Everyone Should Know: Safety Rules

Deadly electricity... Only prudence and basic knowledge of the safe use of electrical equipment can save from electric shock.

Not let your loved ones take gadgets with chargers with you to the bath and give a short educational program about their dangers when dropped into water. But do not forget that even a smartphone disconnected from the mains is potentially dangerous due to the battery.

Not buy low-quality chargers, saving several hundred rubles can cost your life or health.

Not talk on your cell phone during an outdoor thunderstorm.

Do not disassemble or bend. Internal damage due to improper operation can lead to rupture of the shell, heating and even explosion of the smartphone or tablet battery. Low-quality or fake batteries are often a "time bomb": at best, after a short time, they will swell and just ruin the gadget.

Selfie security... In order not to add to the list of selfie victims, do not forget about safety rules, wherever you are. Often, the feeling of euphoria dulls the instinct of self-preservation, so once again it does not hurt to think whether the resulting shot is worth the risk.

In Russian schools this academic year, optional safe selfie lessons were held. In addition, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has created a memo describing the most dangerous and unsuitable situations for selfies.

Radiation.If you follow all the safety rules, but still worry about your health, it will be useful to reduce the impact of electromagnetic radiation from your gadget. The greatest danger is posed by devices with cellular modules, especially smartphones. it is them that we bring close to the head during a conversation.

Use headsets more frequently to reduce their health impact. the radiation intensity decreases in inverse proportion to the square of the distance to the radiation source. In addition, a smartphone that has not been certified by the supervisory authorities of the Russian Federation can emit a stronger electromagnetic field, this should be borne in mind when buying little-known "Chinese".

Fourteen-year-old Madison Coe decided to take a bath and took her mobile phone with her. She attached a charger to it and laid the wire on a towel to keep it from getting wet. The girl, who died from an electric shock, was discovered by her adoptive mother. The girl's parents, who have a medical education, carried out resuscitation, but Maddie was not saved.

The girls' relatives in an interview with the American television show Inside Edition said that she loved to lie in the water with a phone in her hand. “I went into the bathroom to rush Maddy. It was time for her to go to bed, - recalls Felisha Owens, the girl's adoptive mother. "I called to Maddy, but she didn't say anything."

A police investigation found that the girl's death was caused by an electric shock. The charger connected to the mobile phone was connected to an ungrounded wall outlet in the bathroom via an extension cord. According to investigators, the girl died when she removed the charger adapter from the phone.

Lisa Guerrero, a special investigative journalist for the Inside Edition program, and electrical engineer Steve Fowler decided to check what would happen to a person if a mobile phone falls into the water.

After putting the device in a filled bathroom, Steve measured the voltage level - the result was negative. Steve explained that mobile phones themselves are not sources of electrical current and are relatively safe.

It's another matter when a charger is connected to the phone. And if the integrity of the wire is also compromised, the results can be disastrous. As soon as Steve dropped the phone connected to the water electrical network through the charger, the voltmeter readings immediately reached their maximum limits. “The person in this bath would already be dead,” commented Lisa Guerrero.

According to Steve Fowler, it is not safe to keep electrical wires even at some distance from the bath. Lisa and Steve repeated the experiment using a curling iron and a hair straightener, and in both cases, the current reached deadly power for a person. "Never use a device plugged into a wall outlet next to a filled bathtub," warn participants in the experiment.