You hear about it, but it’s hard to really visualize until you see it happening. Here’s a video of an exploding laptop battery. Watch the entire thing. Multiple small explosions and a couple bigger ones with 3 foot flames.
This demonstration was done in a controlled enviroment. Don’t try this at home!
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A Yahoo employee's laptop went up in flames today at their Mission College campus down in Silicon Valley, causing hundreds of Yahoo employees to be evacuated from an 8-story building. The culprit: you guessed it, a Dell machine whose faulty cell that should have been replaced instead caught fire.
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In a time when you're not even allowed to say the word "bomb" in an airport, it's got to be like, really freaking embarrassing to have to run up the jetway at full speed, shoving other passengers out of the way as your flaming laptop explodes on the ground.
According to an eyewitness, passersby stared aghast or fled crying terrorist, the ThinkPad apparently had a number of death throes as the fire went through various phases, until eventually a United employee busted out the fire extinguisher and laid the laptop to rest.
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A Florida man has leaped onto the Dell laptop explosion bandwagon by claiming his house was burnt to a crisp because a Dell laptop ignited his couch on fire. At about 5 a.m. Louis Minnear awoke to the smell of an electrical fire, after quickly surveying his house and finding nothing, he went back to bed. Forty-five minutes later he was awoken again, except this time to his couch on fire.
The story gets a little odder. Minnear quickly led his family out of the house and began making trips in an out saving what valuables he could before the...
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