omg exploding batteries is psp now, be careful of your nads ppl!
Quote:FTA: Boy burned in PSP trouser blaze
By Tony Smith [More by this author]
7th February 2008 14:43 GMT
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.
Young Harold Clay was at school - Warner Middle in Farmington Hills, Michigan - when the incident took place. At 9am yesterday morning, the strides-stowed console suddenly became intensely hot, setting light to the boy's jeans, local newssite ClickOn Detroit reports.
PSP burned - image courtesy Local 4 PSP burned - image courtesy Local 4
Harold Clay's burned PSP
Images courtesy Local 4 News
The PSP managed to burn right through Clay's clothing before a teacher got it away from the lad. The youngster was taken to hospital for treatment but was able to return to school later that day.
Emergency services attending the conflagration later said the fire appears to have begun in the PSP's battery compartment, suggesting the handheld console's power pack overheated. Police are still investigating the incident.
Clay's father later told reporters the console had not been switched on at the time.
And the name of the game loaded onto the machine? Burn Out Legends.
Originally posted by hoip: reminds me of the dell incident
but it could b possible that the battery was a fake from china
Them batteries in the Dells were sony made btw. and it wasn't just Dell's pc that sony batteries destroyed. i suppose they sourced a cheaper manufacturer, just shows that paying a bit extra is worth it sometimes!
Originally posted by link: NEW YORK--Chairman Michael Dell has denied that the way Dell constructs its PCs played a part in a spate of battery-related fires. He instead laid the blame entirely with the manufacturer of the battery cells, Sony.
"We know exactly why there was a problem. Sony had contaminated its cells in the manufacturing process," Dell told ZDNet UK at the company's Technology Day event here on Tuesday.
