New battery promises to prevent overheating

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 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.

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