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GPS Units Next??

 
Tue, 10/09/2007 - 12:20am

Apple iPod Nano Catches Fire, Burns Man's Pants, apparently from a defective lithium ion battery. Are the GPS units next??

Hmmmm ... I wonder if he had it in his front pants pocket!!

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articl...

RT

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Tue, 10/09/2007 - 1:19am

Interesting...

Not too long ago a Dell laptop caught on fire due to faulty batteries. After that incident, Dell issued recall of lithium-ion batteries that were made by Sony.

Tue, 10/09/2007 - 8:06am

That isn't funny

retiredtechnician wrote:

...Hmmmm ... I wonder if he had it in his front pants pocket!!
RT

That isn't funny...lol!

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Tue, 10/09/2007 - 10:53am

retiredtechnician

retiredtechnician wrote:


Hmmmm ... I wonder if he had it in his front pants pocket!!

Unfortunately it was, but he suffered no injuries.

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Tue, 10/09/2007 - 6:37pm

Ouch

I saw this on the tv news, the inside of his pants pocket was, blackened.

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