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When Gadgets Attack: 15 Tech Disasters

By Kate Gammon 12:00 PM - September 3, 2010
 

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Exploding Cell Phones

Last week, a young farmer was killed in India when his cell phone exploded. The newspaper reports said the Nokia phone “exploded while he was talking to someone for a long time,” possibly in the rain.

As strange as it sounds, cell phones have been known to explode–some reports say about one hundred people are injured each year, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. While hoaxes abound (yes, it’s okay to answer your phone while it’s charging), do be careful if the battery pack gets extremely hot. Time to power down and walk away.

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JPHD 09/03/2010 6:14 PM
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Skynet became self-aware.

squallypie 09/03/2010 9:04 PM
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The laptop stampede is the funniest and the kid in the washing machine is the most horrific :(

IMAGINE HOW TOUGH it could've been for the kid to be stuck in there for like half an hour or more.. i wonder where the parents were

jeraldjunkmail 09/04/2010 2:45 PM
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I know bad things happen in this world, but you spoiled my lunch with some of these. Tragic.

digitalwitchcraft 09/04/2010 8:38 PM
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Quote : The Fox News story reported that “one woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line,” which could be the inspiration for the iPee, a new gadget from Apple.


..just awesome :D

Doom3klr 09/06/2010 9:10 AM
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some gps on some cell phones like my galaxy s are crap

_Cubase_ 09/07/2010 2:22 AM
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Quote :iPhones had spontaneously combusted, but the company denied that there was a problem, blaming the meltdowns on “external force.”


No surprises there. An apple product could transform into Megatron and enslave humanity, and they would still claim it was "user error".

wolfseeker2828 09/07/2010 1:50 PM
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_cubase_ :
No surprises there. An apple product could transform into Megatron and enslave humanity, and they would still claim it was "user error".



If they had just bowed to the Megatron, he wouldn't have had to kill them :'(

Anonymous 09/07/2010 11:51 PM
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Shouldn't it be "Narrowly missed his head"? Nearly missed implies that it still hit, but just barley.

belardo 09/08/2010 12:34 PM
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OKAY!

Now it ALL MAKES SENSE!

In Star Trek, people get hurt and killed by exploding panels - and I thought it was dramatic stupidity. But as shown, computers and cell phones can in FACT, explode... causing injuries, without being hit by Klingon phasers!

Wow, Star Trek has it right again.

Anonymous 09/15/2010 10:27 PM
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fondue is swiss

kikireeki 09/19/2010 7:17 PM
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God, according to this, using cell phones is like playing Russian-roulette!

Anonymous 09/24/2010 8:59 AM
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Exloding Laptops and cellphone is understandable, Bus Most others are Human errors or Lack of proper understanding and Commonsense.
The GPS follower landing up in river was sure was joke of the day. Only a woman can do that!