Fire-retardant sleeves for your laptop

We're not sure if these new fire-retardant covers are meant to protect nearby objects in the event of battery explosion, or if they're meant to protect the MacBook from thermal disaster in its surrounding environment -- but either way, they're a pretty stylish new necessity. Wrappers, a British retailer, is now selling jumbocord covers made from graphite granules embedded in the supposed contract-quality corduroy that has passed a "100,000 wear and tear rub test" -- which we really hope doesn't mean it was rubbed 100,000 times by a person. MacBook sleeves are £19.50 ($36) including worldwide shipping, and can be embroidered with initials for an additional three quid ($5.63). Regardless of whether or not your order one, we think that Korean Air, Qantas and Virgin should get in touch with Wrappers to make some airplane-friendly fire-retardant sleeves for the type of computers that have a better chance of actually exploding.

[Via Laptop]

[CSD @ Sep 16th 2006 9:56AM]

Thats not sleek enough for me...

[graf @ Sep 16th 2006 10:23AM]

I have something similar that I got from foofpod.com

[WythDryden @ Sep 16th 2006 11:43AM]

I know it's fire retardant, but it always seems to me like trapping heat in my laptop is not a good idea.

[pableu @ Sep 16th 2006 11:51AM]

WythDryden, you're probably not supposed to put your laptop in there while it's runnig.

[dizzle @ Sep 16th 2006 12:05PM]

hehehe its retarded hehehe

[Simon @ Sep 16th 2006 12:14PM]

My PowerBook G4 17" was unfortunate enough to be in a fire once. We were in a mobile office in the desert shooting a commercial, when the place caught fire and burned to the ground in under 10 minutes. I think this cover would've probably fried along with everything else. By the way, the 'metal' powerbook case was the only thing that was visually (not unlike the Terminator) distiguishable after the fire - like everything else though it was totally destroyed but miraculously I pulled apart the crispy exterior and the hardrive seemed intact. I prised it out, put it in a firewire enclosure and poof it fired right up. All my data was saved!

[Finished.Law.School @ Sep 16th 2006 1:52PM]

This sort of thing should be included with every laptop computer sold considering how they are all catching on fire now...

[Wasabi @ Jun 28th 2008 1:42AM]

Just saw this...wonder if it really protects against a house burning down.

Pretty stylish though. I think Antenna's got some corduroy type laptop sleeves too. Not sure if they are fire resistant though. http://www.antennarocks.com