LG laptop goes up in flames
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Journalist on the scene in less than seconds A journalist was awoken by a hot news story yesterday: the realisation that his LG Electronics laptop had just exploded.â¦
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The adapters can overheat, cause damage to the circuit board and melt through the housing, which poses a fire and electrical shock hazard to consumers.
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Thought all the laptop battery problems were over? Think again. Gateway recalled Samsung-made batteries due to a fire risk, while Toshiba reports a defective Sony-made battery sparked a laptop fire last month.
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Sanyo-made fire hazard Lenovo is recalling more than 200,000 Thinkpad batteries after some caught fire when owners dropped their laptops.â¦
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Scorcher A 12-year-old boy was yesterday treated in hospital for second-degree burns after his Sony PlayStation Portable apparently spontaneously combusted in his trouser pocket.â¦
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BUKIT MERTAJAM: Computers, worth RM100,000, went up in smoke when a fire razed a shophouse in Sungai Rambai here yesterday.  The blaze, believed to have been caused by a short circuit, occurred about 12.30pm.
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A MacBook user whose Apple Inc. laptop reportedly burst into flames while being recharged blamed a bad battery for the incident. He said the battery was not on last year's recall list.
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InfoWorld - Toshiba is recalling a small batch of laptop batteries that could overheat and burn users, a company spokesman said Thursday.
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Lenovo Group Ltd. 0992.HK and   IBM IBM.N are recalling more than half a million notebook   computer batteries made by Sony Corp. 6758.T after a computer   caught fire at the Los Angeles International Airport, Lenovo   and U.S. safety officials said on Thursday.
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Toshiba is recalling about 5,100 laptop batteries that could overheat and burn users.
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Dell today asked 4.4m notebook users to return their power adaptors after it admitted these peripherals pose both a fire and electric shock hazard.
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A combination of the heat generated by a laptop and the position of the thighs needed to balance it leads to higher temperatures that can be dangerous to a man's reproductive health.
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Certain adapters may pose a risk of fire or electrical shock.
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by STEVE HARTSOE  RALEIGH, N.C. - Lenovo Inc. recalled about 205,000 laptop computer batteries worldwide Thursday, warning that they could overheat and cause a fire.  The battery recall was the second for the company in the past six months and comes as Lenovo, the world's No.
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Suitable for BBQ marshmallow roasting In the latest episode of The Laptop Infernos, a MacBook user is reporting his laptop came close to burning his house down after the battery exploded and burst into flames. The MacBook, which was less than a year-old, was charging with the lid shut when it spontaneously ignited at about three in the morning while the user and his girlfriend slumbered.â¦
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The batteries purchased as a ThinkPad upgrade may overheat when the laptop is dropped, product safety commission says.
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By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Sep. 3--There are thousands of ways to kill a computer. I've tried most  of them.   They've gone up in flames in front of my eyes and died quiet and  undramatic deaths at my hand.