We see a
lot of
product recalls around here, and keep most of them to
ourselves (unless, of course, we feel our readership faces certain danger), but we figured you'd be particularly
interested in one that could prevent your kids' hands from getting burned. Memcorp, in conjunction with the Consumer
Product Safety Commission, is recalling 102,000 battery packs for Disney-branded portable DVD players sold at theme
parks and through Disney's online catalog from April 2005 through last month due to reports of overheating. Apparently
the batteries, which were included with five different models (full list available by following the "Read"
link), have drawn 17 complaints with regards to their toasty nature, including three reports each of property damage
and minor skin irritation. This certainly isn't the first
incidence of faulty batteries that we've seen, but usually
manufacturers are thoughtful enough not to package them with products intended for children.
posted April 13th 2006 8:45PM
FIRST!
ya know the whole "OMG FIRST POST !!!!!!111111ONE" thing is really lame
whoopdy f***in doo, ned.
i never had liked disney, did the battery acid leak or did it just heat up?
OMFG THIRD POST!!!!11!!!!ONE!!!1
UUUhhh... Nice I see children being burned by a Disney DVD.... Parents must feel guilty now...
That'll take Disney down a peg...
Not to be cruel, but it's a little funny when you think about it. It's unlikely they heated up really quickly, so the kids who burned themselves were probably just so completely engrossed in what they were watching that they held onto the players, even when they were really, really hot. Maybe.
Does that remind anyone else of the old iMac ads apple used to run?
This has been going on for a long time—I remember the PowerBook 5300 (the first based on PowerPC, back in 1995) had a battery recall because the batteries (Apple's first lithium-ion batteries) would catch fire. That's over ten years of flaming laptops; when are we going to get some better safety standards?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook#The_PowerPC_era