Has my eleven year old bricked his iPod

My eleven year old son has asked me to sort out his six week old iPod Touch. It seems he was trying to upgrade it's firmware when it crashed and it now appears totally dead. I have tried all the reset methods so I am assuming that he's trashed the bios and thats it!! Am I likely to have any joy with Apple or is it a right off?

Sometimes during an install of new firmware something goes wrong. I find that letting the iPod run out of battery power and then connecting it to the computer again will let you perform a restore.
If you've waited for 48hrs or so and the computer still can't detect the iPod when you connect it ... then I'd probably send it in to Apple.

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