Feb
13
2007
iPod ‘doctors’ resuscitate broken players
A cottage industry in fixing devices run over by cars, dropped, etc.
NEW YORK – Doctors are often lauded as miracle workers, but even the most skilled have patients they can’t help. Demetrios Leontaris keeps a picture of one on his cell phone organizer.
Tapping at his keypad, he smiles as he pulls up a picture of the ill-fated patient: an iPod Nano left badly bruised after being run over by a car. While it still played, attempting to repair the casing could have broken the device.
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