Sony battery fiasco flares on: Toshiba joins recall

Like that cut in your mouth that never heals, an old flame you can never seem to forget or a scandal that just won't blow over, the laptop battery recall has proven to be a thorn in the side of Sony that the company can't seem to remove. After months upon months of recalls, it seemed like it was all finally behind us...but we were wrong. Almost a year after the first cells went up in smoke, Toshiba has announced it will recall 10,000 Sony-manufactured laptop batteries for the usual reasons--those being that the batteries in question could catch fire or explode when in use. We'll assume Sony will be adding these to the pile of almost 10 million batteries recalled last year--a stockpile that would make for an impressive arsenal of explosives, should Sony decide to resell them.

For more on the recall:
- see this Engadget story