A Douglasville man has now found out how hot the iPod can be, and we are not making this up…

His old iPod nano caught on fire, leaving a burn hole from “his 15 seconds of flame”. “So I look down and I see flames coming up to my chest,” said Danny Williams to WSBTV, “I’m still kind of freaked out that after only a year and a half my iPod caught fire in my pocket.”

The iPod uses a lithium-ion battery - the same one that is being recalled by laptops for bursting into flames. In 2006, a major recall was done after it was found that the lithium-ion batteries made by Sony were able to combust into flames. Apple was one of the companies affected; as well as Toshiba, Acer and Lenovo.

Apple has said that they will replace the iPod.