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Do I need to take my iphone back in to apple to get camera fixed ?

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[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bit aside, what actually is that thing?

[–] Coolguybest@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A rod of Cobalt-60, a highly radioactive isotope. There's a reason it says on the side "Drop & run". Its radioactivity is the reason it's messing up the photo- as the energetic radiation strikes the cells in the phone camera, it causes those cells to light up.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

It's a replica of one, that's why the visual noise isn't uniform: it's edited in.

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Some radioactive stick of something