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Retromodo: Laptop Catches Fire at LAX, Foreign Woman Freaks Out

Remember that old exploding battery episode? Here's a clip we haven't seen before of it. A very scary video with fireballs jumping from the Sony battery-infested body of this laptop. The people in the terminal sure are freaking out, screaming "OH MY GOD" and jumping up on those vinyl seats. That's probably what we'd do too—not reach in an try and save his porn like the dude halfway in the clip.UPDATE: Apparently, people have been linking to this story as new. I've edited this post to make it more clear that it is an old but recently discovered clip. If you need to check on your Dell's battery to see if it is of the exploding variety, they've written to remind us that you can do so here.

3:00 PM on Wed Feb 20 2008
By Jason Chen
7,110 views, 45 comments

Latest by twoeightnine: How exactly would you have "helped"? I would have called Tom Cruise, he's the only one who could have truly more »

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Sputtering Network Card Strands 17,000 People at LAX

Just to remind you how thin the thread is upon which we hang every day, consider that one faulty network interface card stranded 17,000 people for nine hours last weekend at Los Angeles International Airport. According to government officials in charge of the infrastructure at the airport, a network card inside one computer experienced "a partial failure that started at about 12:50 p.m. Saturday," and then the house of cards that is the LAX Airport computer network came crashing down, stranding a gigantic crowd of people for the better part of a day. More »

1:00 PM on Wed Aug 15 2007
By Charlie White
32,063 views, 31 comments

Latest by gundamsdontkillpeople: They should have used a Mac! more »

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Gizmodo Reader Witnesses IBM Laptop Catch Fire at LAX

Reader Tom was lucky enough to be a witness to what may be the first blogged instance of an IBM laptop igniting thanks to its battery. More »

4:19 PM on Sat Sep 16 2006
By Jason Chen
2,001 views, 36 comments