Oh shit, have you ever been using the timer on your phone or MP3 player and wondered what the hell happens when it reaches the point beyond what the timer goes up to?

Well if you are that person then wonder no more, a man - truly a hero among men - has videoed exactly what happens when an iPod stopwatch ticks over from 9999hrs 59secs to 10000hrs.

He waited 416 days to make it happened and be warned before you watch the video, it may well and truly blow you away....

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Credit: YouTube / Streaming Andrew

Wow that was mind blowing - although at least I will rest easy tonight now I know what happened.

The video was posted to social media by an Australian man named Andrew, who goes by the YouTube alias Streaming Andrew. His channel is worth checking out.

Speaking of iPods and iPhones, most of us use them every single day, but have you ever wondered what the 'i' in iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad actually stands for? I'll give you a clue, it's not 'I dropped it'.

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Back at an Apple event in 1998 when the late Steve Jobs introduced the iMac, he broke down the link between the 'i' and 'Mac'.

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So, it turns out that it was originally intended to inform people that the device possessed online powers. Because once upon a time, it was quite rare to have an internet-ready device.

Since 1998, having the internet has become the norm and the 'i' has lost its association with the original meaning. For example, when they created the iPod, the main function was to play music, rather than to browse the web. Yet it was still called the iPod. Why not the mPod?

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But because the 'i' is pretty much pointless, Apple seem to be moving away from their famous prefix. Instead of the iWatch and iTV, you can buy an Apple Watch and Apple TV.