by Matt Hickey on September 16, 2006
 time bombs that can apparently go off whenever it feels like the urge to explode.</p>
<p>Take, for example, this account from the Something Awful forums:</p>
<blockquote><p>…when suddenly this guy comes running the wrong way up the jetway, pushing other boarding passengers out of the way, he quickly drops his laptop on the floor and the thing immediately flares up like a giant firework for about 15 seconds, then catches fire.</p></blockquote>
<p>There have been several stories of laptops ’sploding lately, specifically Dells and Apples, but this was an IBM Thinkpad, and the owner claims he had checked it against the recall list. So this begs the question: is it just these specific Sony batteries that tend to flame up, or is it the technology?<img align=)
I just watched a laptop battery catch fire, at LAX, in the United terminal [Something Awful]
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