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Anybody know of a way to revive a dead iPod touch? Something besides holding the power button and home button for several minutes?

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Only works on such massive scales.

Scales so massive, they require a slideshow.

stevetherobot: Anybody know of a way to revive a dead iPod touch?

Yes, but it involves animal sacrifice and the iPod may develop a taste for human flesh afterwards.

Your dead iPhone is a gold mine - literally

Really, author? Literally? My phone is literally a gold mine? A mine where miners can go to mine gold? Literally? You're literally a moron.

No wonder women love them.

This just in: Gold is very good at conducting electricity, and is thus used in a lot of electronics. Film at 11.

stevetherobot: Anybody know of a way to revive a dead iPod touch? Something besides holding the power button and home button for several minutes?

Dead how? If it's "dead I just sent it wrong the washing machine" shove it in a bowel of rice and in the airing cupboard (or somewhere warm and dry) for a few days. If it's "internals gone pop" dead dunno. You might be able to swap the battery out and see if it springs in to life again, check ifixit.com, they usually have tear downs and guides for most Apple kit.

I had a brother-in-law who got really excited when he found out that processors use gold pins. He tried to get his hands on all of the old PCs he could find and tried clipping the pins off of the processor. I think he was dissappointed when the pawn shop offered him about 15 bucks for his huge gold deposit.

sarah_t_s: ...Dead how? If it's "dead I just sent it wrong the washing machine" shove it in a bowel of rice and in the airing cupboard...

Yes, you must use the "delicate electronics" setting on the washing machine. Then you can avoid accidentally the rice bowels to the airing cupboard.

Pfffft I'd rather be like that dude who picks gold and gems out of sidewalks around jewellery stores and highly travelled areas.

I can't find the article but it's true I read it on fark!

Chevello: sarah_t_s: ...Dead how? If it's "dead I just sent it wrong the washing machine" shove it in a bowel of rice and in the airing cupboard...

Yes, you must use the "delicate electronics" setting on the washing machine. Then you can avoid accidentally the rice bowels to the airing cupboard.

You're not far wrong with that joke. I used to know a marine electronics tech who would run the boards from radars, radios, etc through a regular dishwasher for cleaning had they been immersed in salt water. The amazing thing is that it worked, most times, so long as everything was given extra time to dry after the heat dry cycle (and hadn't been powered on during the initial dunking).

Honest Bender: Your dead iPhone is a gold mine - literally

Really, author? Literally? My phone is literally a gold mine? A mine where miners can go to mine gold? Literally? You're literally a moron.
hahahaha that just made my day. one of my pet peevees is people misusing that word, so thank you.

/you are literally hilarious

Years ago I saw something on TV about a electronics recycling company and how they used about 90% of everything they got out of the machines. I forget how much it was but it was a lot of PCs to get about a quarter size amount of gold

Toy_Cop: Pfffft I'd rather be like that dude who picks gold and gems out of sidewalks around jewellery stores and highly travelled areas.

I can't find the article but it's true I read it on fark!

It was in the Diamond District in New York, and the guy made just enough to live on (I got the sense that he had some other things he did in addition to scouring the streets for diamonds). He also collected bits of precious metal, which are probably easier to find.

Here's the article