Watch out, dude!

Most of you still remember the explosion of a Dell notebook during a conference organised by the Open Mobile Alliance at the New Otani hotel in Osaka (more than a year ago).

It turns out Dell wasn't the only manufacturer affected:

"Lithium-ion batteries are used almost everywhere nowadays, but the recent recalls of them by top makers like Matsushita/Panasonic, Sony Corp. and Sanyo Corp. indicate that something is wrong with their manufacturing, industry experts believe. The battery specialists claim that fabrication process for those batteries needs to be altered to ensure their safe operation."

Quoting Masataka Wakihara, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japanese Government advisor on battery safety): “ Battery companies are still learning because the [lithium-ion battery] technology is young”. Lithium-ion batteries have been on the market for... 5, 10 years and NOW they tell us they aren't 100% safe? Nice one.

Link: X-bit labs.

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