Sony batteries still hot stuff
Remember last year's recall of Sony batteries? You know, the one that affected more than 10 million notebook batteries, including Toshiba's, Dell's and Apple's?
Well, it seems not everybody tended to that recall notice.
At least three more fires have been recently attributed to Sony's lithium-ion battery overheating.
In response to those fires, Japanese electronics maker Toshiba - who already feature a list of defective batteries and affected notebooks on their website - is stepping up efforts to contact customers who may own a notebook featuring the affected battery.
Comments
And I thought hot pants were done after the '70s.
I haven't seen all that many hot batteries, but I've been alarmed in my last year of testing to see how friggin' hot a standard hard disk drive gets during normal use. Those things throw off a whole lot of heat. The portables less so than the desktop models, but a lot of heat nonetheless, making it all the more important to develop flash memory devices that are bigger, quicker, cheaper and longer-lasting -- you GO SanDisk!!
Posted by: Steven Rosenberg
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June 19, 2007 12:49 PM