you can just imagine it, in the ER room, patient dieing on the bench.

"Hang on, before I shout clear, just got to turn off my ipod...."



If a tiny magnet that can't even hold a coin can affect your pacemaker though a thick layer of tissue then I think it's time the makers of these pacemakers are sued, and be forced to find another venture, perhaps cheap headphone manufacturing or something.
If this is a real story then it seems the finding is that there are so many people with dodgy pacemakers, and not that there's anything wrong with headphones.

Headphones can be a risk, therefor they should be classed as a terrorist device and banned from planes, right ?
I mean rounded scissors cannot make a pacemaker malfunction, right ? But headphones can.
Somebody tell the TSA - we don't have enough pointless things to check.