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Apple\u2019s <\/span>wireless ear jacks<\/span><\/a> have been out for over a year now, and have proven <\/span>very popular for joggers and gym bunnies<\/b> who appreciate the <\/span>lack of annoying cables<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n But all that <\/span>earplug love<\/b> could turn <\/span>to fear and loathing<\/b> thanks to what <\/span>Jason Colon<\/b> said happened to him during a workout in Tampa, Florida. <\/span><\/p>\n According to the <\/span>buff gym-goer<\/b>, one of his AirPods <\/span>started belching white smoke, caught fire, <\/b>then<\/span> exploded<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n There are <\/span>no corroborating witnesses<\/b>, but take a look at <\/span>the news report<\/span><\/a>; Colon\u2019s testimony <\/span>seems pretty genuine<\/b>, as does the damage to his ear jacks. <\/span><\/p>\n Apple is investigating <\/b>the incident \u2013 but in the meantime, let\u2019s hope listening to music won\u2019t<\/span> literally<\/span><\/i> blow anyone\u2019s ears off<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apple\u2019s wireless ear jacks have been out for over a year now, and have proven very popular for joggers and gym bunnies who appreciate the lack of annoying cables. But all that earplug love could turn to fear and loathing thanks to what Jason Colon said happened to him during a workout in Tampa, Florida. … Continue reading “Did an Apple AirPod just explode?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":105273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1066,1032],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-105049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apple","tag-gadgets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328303,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105049\/revisions\/328303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105049"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=105049"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=105049"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=105049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}