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Warning: Exploding Batteries

Posted by timothy on from the and-exploding-and-exploding dept.

batlike writes "It seems I have been quite lucky up to this point as I habitually leave my laptop in the trunk of my car - which is just over the gas tank (duh!) . See this article in InfoWorld by Ephraim Schwartz for details. You may want to give it a once over if you currently use lithium-ion batteries."

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  1. WMD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WMD

  2. Hey! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I heard that if you heat gasoline too much, it may EXPLODE!

  3. I GOT YER 'PENETRATION' RIGHT HERE, BUDDY! *ZIIIP* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  4. To Tom's Hardware by Mys*lf · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No 5 GHz laptop?

  5. Chocolate soda? by sharkey · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Both also agree that Valence's phosphate technology, registered as Saphion Technology, is definitely safer.

    Mmmm, fizzy.

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  6. Re:In Communist Russia by TSNV · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SOVIET russia. Geez.

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