Panasonic is showing some business acumen and ingenuity in designing a new lithium battery that won't catch fire the way some of Sony's [1] batteries recently did. The vendor says that its new lithium-ion battery has a heat-resistant layer that will keep notebooks and other electronic devices from overheating. Such batteries could prove popular with vendors, given that Dell's recall of over 4 million Sony batteries was the largest consumer product recall to date.
For more on the safer laptop battery:
- read the article [2] at DailyTechRag
Links:
[1] http://www.fiercecio.com/story/even-sony-is-recalling-its-own-batteries/2006-10-17
[2] http://www.dailytechrag.com/story/panasonic-develops-laptop-battery-that-won-t-overheat/2006-12-18