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    Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
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    Image of vertigo vertigo
    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    Dude! I carry my cell in my pants pocket what if it explodes and severs my wenis ...that's potentially worse than death.
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    02/03/09

    @vertigo: Why? Just think, with all the advances in medical technology over the last few years you can upgrade and get a robowang...
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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    02/03/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate: Juts as long as they don't make a typo and install a Rotwang.


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    Image of rip rip
    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    I can't wait for the next Prius with hundreds of pounds of lithium ion batteries...
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    02/03/09

    @rip: It will bring, driving by the seat of your pants to a whole new, explosive level..
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    Image of popularbelief popularbelief
    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    So a Razr stops bullets but an Lg explodes and kills?
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    02/03/09

    @popularbelief: Call Lindsay Joy. That's Motorola's next Super Bowl spot.
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    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    Pictured above: how to install apps on your Nokia.
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    02/03/09

    @Gann: I thought that was how you removed them..
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    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    "Sectioning" his cartoid?


    Bleeding to "dead"?


    Did Gizmodo get outsourced?


    *Sigh* Times are tough...

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    02/03/09

    @HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak: Hey, cut Jesus some slack. He was typing that on his iphone, hands trembling, sweat dripping from his brow, muttering a silent prayer in hopes that his phone won't go BOOM when he clicks post.
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    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    Can you explode me now?


    Good.

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    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    If someone can make a carbon fiber cellphone case the problem is solved. or at least a cf battery housing.
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    Image of Loonie Loonie
    02/03/09

    @Life Is Eat And Die: Or batteries that don't explode.
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    02/03/09

    @Loonie: I think that is impossible. And I think it probably had to do with the cellphone malfunctioning rather than the actual batteries.


    I used to have a cellphone and the battery swelled up so much it took a while to get the battery to come out.

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    Image of TomasDR TomasDR
    02/03/09

    @Life Is Eat And Die: I'm not sure how much better it would be to have your artery or other body part to be cut/punctured by a shard of carbon fiber over plastic or metal. It's strong but not that strong!


    As for batteries that don't explode, as soon as they rewrite the first law of thermodynamic physics they will be able to make them. Until then every battery has a chance to explode, of course most of them are safe.


    PS. A warning circuit to warn of overcharging is possible, but if they make bad batteries, how much confidence will you have in the warning system?

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    02/03/09

    @TomasDR: Actually carbon fiber doesn't break into shards, it is woven like cloth. They have these new air driven cars that use carbon fiber tanks, so if they explode they just split down the middle.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    I'm not worried. My phone's a So....
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    Image of dna dna
    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    Based on the latest information linking cell phones to cancer it's probably a good rule of thumb to keep yours at a safe distance. At least put the thing in your back pocket, you don't usually hear of people dying from butt cancer.
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    02/03/09

    @dna: Tell us that again after you've had a couple of colonoscopies..
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    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    I hate bleeding to "dead."
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    Ugg, odd thing happened to me this morning. I put the batter to my pager in backwards, it started hissing at me and made all sorts of electrical noise. I thought it was going to blow up so I asked a friend to put the batter in the right way :D


    Anyhow, wonder if this is the same sort of thing.

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    02/03/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Pager??
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    02/03/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate: For work.
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    02/03/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog:
    I got a pager. AND IT HAS A KEYBOARD!
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    02/03/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: I figured it was for work.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    02/03/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Did you date Liz Lemmon, and get caught by Chris Hansen, and then save a guy on the subway, and then try to shove Liz Lemmon in front of the subway?


    Second, you gave a hissing pager to a friend to figure out? You're a true buddy.

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    02/03/09

    @scarbrtj: So does mine!!!


    @badhatharry: Hey, can you help me out with my pager?


    @SJRNWT: So what kind of pager do you carry?

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    Image of subsider34 subsider34
    02/03/09

    @scarbrtj: Do you perhaps have on of the first blackberrys (you know, before they were integrated into phones)?
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    02/03/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: NO.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    02/03/09

    @subsider34: No, there are very valid reasons some places use pagers. One would be that it cuts down on two way communication and prevents company leaks. The other would be, it's cheaper.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    02/03/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Third would be that you work for a company that is into ironic accessories.
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    02/03/09

    @badhatharry: That's it, no round thing on top of the couch for you!!
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    02/03/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: The Motorola T900 had a built-in keyboard if I remember correctly..


    Not to be confused with the T800 which just had a built-in 'kill all humans' feature...

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    02/03/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Whatever. As long as the round things on the bottom of my couch get played with, it's all good.


    (i was talking about balls.)

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    02/03/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: My wife is a Doctor and she has a pager. Sometimes I put it on my beanie hat and it vibrates my skull...then she looks at me and asks how the hell I ever married a doctor and I say its because I have a big ding-a-ling, then she shakes her head and walks away.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    02/03/09

    @Hiroak: You know, I always thought there would be an age where I would stop making immature jokes and turn into my father. I'm 32 and have realized that day will never come. I usually use the word "junk" instead of "ding-a-ling" though.
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    Image of MarshallSDSO MarshallSDSO
    02/03/09

    In reply to Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
    What won't kill you today?
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    02/03/09

    @MarshallSDSO: Nerf.
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    Image of Ethan Shaffer Ethan Shaffer
    02/03/09

    @badhatharry:
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    02/03/09

    @Ethan Shaffer: Really? A nerf gun with a chain saw? Is that from Duke Nukem For Kids?
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