OK, we gave Consumerist guy a bit of sass when he said his iPod Nano blew up and almost burned his neighborhood down. Turns out he might have had something there. Apple today admitted that a very small percentage of Gen 1 nanos might have a defective battery:
"Apple has determined that in very rare cases batteries in first generation iPod nanos sold between September 2005 and December 2006 can overheat causing failure and deformation of the iPod nano. Apple has received very few
