Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference

[Rob Williams]

Guilhem, our astonished reader reports: "The damn thing was on fire and produced several explosions for more than five minutes".
Should you witness such an event, his advice is, "Don't try anything courageous/stupid, stay away, away, away!"


http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32550

Thank God nobody was using it at the time. That is insane.. to just explode.

[RazorBack]

How can a laptop just explode??? The only flamable thing in there is the battery, what else can go?

Again, just lucky no one was using it :o

[Rob Williams]

Tell me about it. By the size of the explosion, you'd think it was lined with thermite. Pretty scary stuff really though. It would suck if that ever happened in public transit, or on a plane.

[madmat]

Lithium Ion batteries make a very satisfying *~BOOM~*

[ddrmaniacaaa]

This is the kinda stuff you see as pranks when people put firecrackers in someones cpu. This could have ended up with injury though. Glad no one got hurt.

[bobb]

rofl
funny