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When compact discs first came out I tried the old speaker test on them, and other than one CD I bumbled and scratched, no damage resulted. This isn't the old electromagnetic type of tape data we are all used to, this is solid state semiconducting technology. Like someone said, alternating current creating a "Field" of electricity may pose a risk to unshielded devices. When I was a tech at a computer company years ago I watched them assemble computers with magnetic screwdrivers even after we had the HDD image burned. The reason they warn you about credit cards is due to the fact some idiot somewhere out there will keep his credit cards inside the case or whatever, and rubbing any credit card against a magnet will result in some sort of damage. It's like one of those "Do not operate this electric heater inside a pool or bathtub" warning, because you know someone will try it, and their family will sue when they fry. There are already EMF fields inside yoru AXIM primarily in the cold cathode power system, which oscillates at a high frequency at a pretty high voltage. Those scan lines in your screen- those are from an HV leak somewhere in your AXIM- but your AXIM still works, right? The magnet on that little flip case probably couldn't distort the cathode ray tube inside your tellivision.
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