One of the biggest (and legitimate) concerns surrounding the expansion of electric cars on our roads generally tends to fall upon the batteries. Put simply, lithium-ion has a ...
January 25, 2021 at 9:45 am by Mike Sanders
A woman from Wisconsin was left with second-degree skin burns after her Fitbit activity tracker combusted while attached to her wrist. Dina Mitchell received the Fitbit Flex 2 ...
April 27, 2017 at 8:54 am by Ashley Allen
Passengers sleeping on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne were awoken by a loud explosion that stemmed from a female passenger’s headphones after two hours mid-flight. ...
March 17, 2017 at 4:30 pm by Ron Perillo
An Arizona teen’s tweet has gone viral after it showed copious amounts of smoke coming out of an iPhone 7 Plus in a 21-second video. 18-year old Briana Olivas says that ...
February 24, 2017 at 3:00 pm by Ron Perillo
Researchers from Stanford University have developed a battery that contains its own fire extinguishing unit. The battery includes triphenyl phosphate, a flame retardant ...
January 16, 2017 at 5:30 pm by Ashley Allen
Following the recent incident where a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX’s future launch schedule has been placed in jeopardy, ...
September 13, 2016 at 9:20 pm by Alexander Neil
On Thursday morning one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets exploded on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral’s Air Force station during a routine test-firing in preparation ...
September 1, 2016 at 10:28 pm by Alexander Neil
Once again, another successful launch by SpaceX, and sadly, another failure to land their Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, said that the ...
March 5, 2016 at 9:34 am by Alexander Neil
Tesla cars are well-known sites all around the world now with the Model S being known as a rather amazing piece of technology. The electric sports car contains a ludicrous ...
January 1, 2016 at 10:05 pm by Gareth Andrews
Space industry upstart SpaceX has suffered an explosive set back on its latest mission. Setting out to resupply the International Space Station, the Falcon 9 rocket suffered ...
June 29, 2015 at 8:31 am by Samuel Wan
Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V title had a big multiplayer exploit, where players could bring the Duke O’ Death car into multiplayer sessions, even though it was a ...
April 4, 2015 at 12:58 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Samsung hasn’t had the best luck with their phones lately, at least not when we’re looking at them from a fire hazard point-of-view. It isn’t that long time ...
January 12, 2015 at 10:55 pm by Bohs Hansen
Like many humans, I get an odd sense of satisfaction of watching things blow up in slow motion, be that a can of Cola packed with TNT, or a balloon filled with Hydrogen, ...
June 12, 2014 at 9:11 am by Peter Donnell
Ever watch BattleTech as a child? Well if you haven’t you’re missing out, but if you have then you’re hopes and dreams of being able to see a railgun being ...
April 8, 2014 at 7:23 pm by Ian Viado
There have been a few reports of iPhones, iPads and iPods exploding over the years, more so in recent month. I do think it is fair to say that nearly all electrical device can ...
November 10, 2013 at 12:20 pm by Peter Donnell
