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For those who have cochlear implants, static electricity is a menace. It can "fry" the implant, erasing its memory and requiring an expensive and time-consuming reset. 
 
Plastic playground slides have been found to be particularly harmful to implants, as they build up charges of 25,000 volts or more.  
 
Metal slides are not as bad, but they pose a burn hazard in hot weather. 
 
Scientists are looking into antistatic coatings for plastic slides.

Slides: A Playground Menace

Wired News - 6/8/2006 2:02 AM

For most kids, the static electricity that builds up as they go down playground slides does little more than make their hair stand on end. But for thousands of hearing-impaired children, static can shut down their cochlear implants in an instant.
 
To try to help kids with implants enjoy slides, a group of Missouri researchers is studying just how much static electricity can build up on plastic playground slides as part of an attempt to find a solution to the cochlear conundrum
 
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