Maybe these are nuclear powered players that don't ever need new batteries- LOL-

I don't find this surprising or misleading. Its got nothing to do with transmitted radio signals as some read on here, its go to do with generally poor quality players, or players using some low quality components not meeting EM regulations. It doesn't matter whether it is actually harmful or not, it just matters that they don't meet regulations. Sadly we're talking about Chinese regulations here, which assumingly may not be as strict as western regulations such as those in the US, Europe, Australia etc.

If the device emits EM radiation they could affect sensitive equipment such as hospital equipment, pacemakers, cochlear implants etc


The "self certification" system for EU companies resulted in similarly high levels of emissions (ISTR seeing a report on it in the last 2-3 months)

75% of the bitches gave off radiation? eh? no?

Electromagnetic radiation? Ain't that a load of crap.

"The Chinese regulatory body also found that the labeling on many of the MP4 players that it examined misrepresented their actual capacity, overstating their size by about six percent."

Welcome to every HDD ever made anywhere in the world.

Nuff said.

"Radiation risk" implies that there's an ionising radiation hazard; when in reality it's just an EMI issue. Exceedingly misleading title IMO. Bad Inq.

P.S. Any chance of fixing the captcha so that I can reply with jscript disabled?

This is old news!

The knowledge of the author of that article is way outdated. Capacity of storage devices was redefined (harmonised to decimal: base 10) a fair few years ago. Hard drive manufacturers us the new definition, but many operating systems still use the old one (binary: base 2), hence the apparent discrepancy.

More radiation than GSM/Wifi/Bluetooth? I doubt that.. No GHz-band oscillators in an MP4 player (at least not a cheap one).. And it doesn't even have an antenna. :)

Noone's even been able to prove that radiation below 5GHz at a watt or less (certainly not the milliwatt levels seen in an MP4 player) can do any harm at all to people/animals.. So if you ask me this is just a ruse by the chinese regulators to hurt a company they have a quarrel with.