Comments on: Electronic device batteries- the new threat to airlines? http://gigaom.com/mobile/electronic_devi/ Fri, 25 May 2012 06:57:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Oliver http://gigaom.com/mobile/electronic_devi/#comment-46813 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:56:51 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/electronic_devi#comment-46813 Well, in a massive knee-jerk reaction, Dell today announced a recall program for 4.1 million laptop batteries shipped between April of 2004 and July of 2006.

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoffice/en/2006/2006_08_14_rr_002?c=us&l=en&s=corp

I just pulled the battery out of my fairly new D610 and discovered that its battery isn’t impacted. I do wonder now whether it was a good idea to buy a no-name-brand replacement battery for my Toshiba Portege M100 :-/

]]> By: lsbeller http://gigaom.com/mobile/electronic_devi/#comment-46814 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:12:38 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/electronic_devi#comment-46814 LOL That was bad…hilarious…but bad. ;)
Steve

]]> By: Oliver http://gigaom.com/mobile/electronic_devi/#comment-46815 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:03:40 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/electronic_devi#comment-46815 Steve, I guess that gives the term “heart burn” a completely new meaning ;-)

]]> By: lsbeller http://gigaom.com/mobile/electronic_devi/#comment-46816 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:39:02 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/electronic_devi#comment-46816 Banning all would be interesting considering I work for a company that medically implants these batteries to power a pain relief system and so do all of the pacemaker companies.

Steve

]]> By: Oliver http://gigaom.com/mobile/electronic_devi/#comment-46817 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:32:33 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/electronic_devi#comment-46817 Knee-jerk reaction? I think the industries with economic interest in not seeing restrictions (airlines, high-tech) have too great an influence on the FAA/NTSB for that to ever happen. Just look at what happened after the root cause for TWA 800 was found — I am pretty sure the 747 I am going to board this weekend still has the same design flaw, even though a solution has been known for decades (and implemented by the military). Alas, the decision was made that it’s economically “cheaper” to blow up a passenger airliner every once in a while (well, very rarely, fortunately) than to force the airlines/Boeing/Airbus to fix the problem in their existing fleet.

]]> By: Scotty http://gigaom.com/mobile/electronic_devi/#comment-46818 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:49:25 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/electronic_devi#comment-46818 It’ll probably be worse than you realize. They recently had a UPS freighter plane catch fire in flight. The initial take is that replacement lithium ion batteries, not in use mind you, started the fire.

Coupled with their possible uses as an energy source to power a bomb…

They might need to ban carrying the batteries period.

]]> By: e http://gigaom.com/mobile/electronic_devi/#comment-46819 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:27:24 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/electronic_devi#comment-46819

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