Dell, Apple, and IBM laptops have been catching fire, creating new forms of airport entertainment and providing golden material for bloggers worldwide. Today, we move beyond the Flammable Three, thanks to Toshiba. The company is recalling 340,000 laptop batteries.
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IBM Joins the Heat Miser Society for Mobile Computing
By 9.19.06
Fresh on the heels of the growing ban on battery-powered inflight use of Apple and Dell laptops: Add IBM to the list of spontaneously combustible mobile adding machines.
Laptoppa Non Gratta: Virgin Atlantic Restricts Dell and Apple Notebooks
By 9.19.06
Virgin Atlantic becomes the latest airline to limit laptop use on board, thanks to the threat of exploding batteries. Qantas and Korean Air already have imposed restrictions.
Plastic Battery Invented!
By 9.13.06
Engineers at Brown have invented a battery that uses plastic, instead of metal, to conduct electricty. The new device, “marries the power of a capacitor with the storage capacity of a battery.”
House Burns, Dell Laptop Blamed
By 8.21.06
The fire that consumed a family of five’s South Venice, Florida bungalow may have been due to a Dell laptop left on a couch that spontaneously erupted into flames.
Even More Flaming Dell Laptops
By 7.31.06
Hot on the heels of last week’s Dell notebook calling in the firetrucks, a Singapore man tells the Sydney Morning Herald about his self-immolating laptop.
Another Dell Laptop Ablaze!
By 7.28.06
Incendiary photo evidence of a Dell laptop fire has thrown an extra log on the fire of Dell’s woes.
