This entry was posted on Monday, October 8th, 2007 at 3:28 PM and is filed under Rant. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
AppleGeeks - copyright © 2009 Mohammad F. Haque and Ananth Panagariya. All rights reserved.
all images, graphics, artwork © 2009 Mohammad F. Haque and Ananth Panagariya
unless otherwise noted and may not be used without their permission.
all images, graphics, artwork © 2009 Mohammad F. Haque and Ananth Panagariya
unless otherwise noted and may not be used without their permission.
Wow, how does that even happen to something as small as an Ipod? Does it overheat? Battery leak? “Human error”? :P
YES!!! I SO knew you were gonna post this after i said that.
MUHAHAH!!! and seriously i have no effing clue. something about same type of batteries that are on recall for laptops that catch fire.
What I want to know is how he left the airport having had flames “reaching up to his chest”. How does he not leave work shirtless and pantsless?
Hehe, he was flaming. xD
pirate Hawk: http://devbook.com/apps/fun/southparkchar/imagedata/cached/2/25/255/2552/25520659-300368387.jpg
where’s the power logo and why is he wearing pants?
i’m sorry u didn’t get the full frontal, i was trying to be PC.
insert witty comment about flames here
Wow. Well my cell phone gets hot when I’m talking on it, even for only a few minutes and my face isn’t even touching the part that’s hot.
I think the woman calling the news station did a good thing. It’ll get out by word of mouth even if the company doesn’t say anything.
L-Ion batteries are more trouble than they’re worth. I had a Video-camera/mp3 player that used one and the battery never seemed to be able to hold a charge for more than a few days — even if I didn’t use it! Also, it had the annoying tendency to set off the anti-shoplifting device detectors at some stores. I finally had to buy a NiMH battery to replace it.
Everyone is still amazed every time this happens. Lithium Ion batteries have a very high energy density. Its what makes them great for small, compact batteries. However the reaction that occurs when charging or discharging can get out of hand. Lithium Ion batters are supposed to have a limiter to prevent it from “melting down” because as the battery heats the reaction speeds up, creating more heat, etc untill if not checked.. fire… and quite a hot fire at that.
From a physics perspective you can only contain so much energy in one place before its release would qualify as an explosion.
The batteries are reasonably safe. But when you have a manufacturing defect rate of 1%, and catistrophic failure is .1% of that 1% and you have 1 billion batteries.. well theres your fires.
This just screams of ZOMG SCIENCE FAILS US AGAIN! NOOO! People who don’t understand things stuff pockets full of gadgets with an amazing amount of power believing in the all perfect nature of manufacture and science to save them.
*YAAWN*
Supposed to be less common though as we go to the more stable Lithium-polymer batteries.
Lithium Ion battery notes: never fully drain them, it causes the formation of battery damaging crystals. Also as an effect will be to reduce the charge the battery can hold.
What this person says is true, and quite accurate. The 3rd and 4th points I like the best.
Why am I not surprised that they didn’t want to comment on the subject? Still it’s kind of funny but I’m glad the guy isn’t hurt.
Article made me laugh till I read what the mother said: “It could have happened when we were sleeping, it could have happened when he was driving and the outcome could have been much worse,”
Wtf? This isn’t some b-rate horror film, it’s a piece of technology. Feh, everyone wants their 15 seconds of fame, and when they get it, they want more :\.