
The report informs that the respective iPod owner was not hurt. Speaking of which, a Times Online report talks of a 1G iPod shooting out sparks while being recharged by its owner in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, in January. As mentioned above, fifth-generation iPod owners can download the update via iTunes, which should resolve the issues they've encountered with the device so far, from a software point of view, of course, meaning that if your iPod's battery swells while it is recharging, this won't fix it. The new release weighs in at about 6.3MB.

It promises to fix and squash several bugs, superseding all previous firmware versions. Update 1.3 for fifth-generation iPods is currently available through iTunes. The latest iPod news concern an update to the fifth-generation iPod Classic firmware.
