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Danny Williams was working at Atlanta, Georgia's international airport when he says the iPod combusted, burning for 15 seconds.

"So I look down and I see flames coming up to my chest," Williams told a local TV station. "I'm still kind of freaked out that after only a year and a half my iPod caught fire in my pocket."

He believes glossy paper in his pocket may have saved him from burns.

Apple told Williams that they will replace the iPod but it declined to make any comment.

There does not appear to have been any previous reports of an iPod's lithium-ion battery catching fire, though the same technology has been known to cause laptops to burst into flame. Last year Sony was forced to recall many millions of batteries that it had supplied to a number of laptop makers, including Apple, after it identified a flaw in the battery manufacturing process.