Beats Studio Wireless Headphones
Pricey Bluetooth cans with rich sound. The Beats Studio Wireless are a very comfortable, albeit expensive Bluetooth headphone with active noise-canceling technology.
Earlier 2017, one anonymous woman says she was asleep on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne when she was awakened by an explosion and heat searing her face. The sparking Apple Beats headphones burned her face and neck, and half-melted to the floor where she threw them before flight attendants managed to douse them in water.
Apple is refusing to compensate a woman whose Beats headphones exploded in her face, claiming the Apple a1322 batteries were at fault.
The Australian news site reports that Apple — who bought Beats for $3 billion in 2014 — blames the batteries in the headset: “Our investigation indicated the issue was caused by a third-party battery.”
There are still a few Beats variations that require AAA batteries — such as the noise-cancelling Beats Studio headphones, which have since been discontinued. The brand of AAA Apple a1045 battery in the woman’s Beats isn’t specified.
At the time of the incident, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau concluded the batteries were the most likely culprit and warned passengers that “AAA batteries should be kept in an approved stowage, unless in use.”
