Over the last few years, the cause of many recalls on all sorts of electronics products like notebooks has been faulty batteries. A few years back a wide range of notebooks were recalled due to faulty batteries that posed a fire hazard. Coby Electronics and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission have announced a product recall on a Coby portable DVD player.
At just $29, Durabrand’s DVD players were selling like hot cakes at Walmart stores. Unfortunately it turns out that they’re also going up in flames like hot coals, so the retailer is having to recall around 1.5m of them. Apparently there have been twelve reported cases of the Durabrand player overheating, with five going on to catch fire and cause “property damage”.
The Acer Predator line of gaming PCs is well known for its blazing fast speed and high octane graphics capability. But did you know they could potentially “blaze” a hole through your desk? Well, maybe not quite, but they definitely pose a fire hazard, so says the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Canon USA has sent out emails to notify the original 5D users, citing a weak design in main mirror attachment could cause the mirror to come loose. A service notice regarding the mirror issue was posted today at 5D’s support site. A repair to reinforce the strength of mirror attachment is imminent, and will be provided to 5D owner, free of charge.
I quitted achieving data in DVD optical recording media ages ago, but my Aunt Sally in Osaka still can’t get enough of the lowest cost per gigabyte’s optical storage. She wouldn’t be please though, to hear that stacks of al-cheapo Maxell DVD-R of hers are being recalled due to manufacturing error.
Hitachi has initiated a recall on its Maxell- DVR optical disk lineup due to labeling ink issues that could contaminate disk surface to dirt.
Well this is definitely not cool! According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Rage Wireless Guitars for the Wii are not safe for consumers! 57,000 of the guitars have now been recalled and there’s no word if this product will make it back to the market.
It can’t be in too many hands as of yet, but the Everun Note is about to be snatched out of them and dragged back to base. Raon Digital have recalled the compact touchscreen notebook over “failure symptoms” that include high-pitched fan noise, blue-screening, overheating processor, inaccurate battery monitor levels or “an error related to the preinstalled e-dictionary and/or PDA authentication”.
Sony has begun a free test & repair program for certain models in its VAIO TZ range, after a fault in the screen hinge can cause dangerous overheating. Apparently in excess of 200 notebooks have overheated, with seven people suffering light burns. The program affects any TZ bought between May 2007 and July 2008, and has so far been announced in the US, UK and Hong Kong.
Just when I was beginning to think we were out of the woods with this whole battery fire mess a gentleman’s Apple notebook catches fire in Japan and he sues over it. Apple Japan and Sony have agreed to pay the 1.3 million Yen, or about $13k.
Approximately 600 photo frames are being recalled by the Gift Wrap Company of Atlanta, Georgia and Consumer Product Safety Commission due to excess levels of lead found on the frame’s surface paint. The ‘Made in China’ 4”x6” hanging photo frames were sold at Babies R Us stores nationwide from August 2007 through November 2007 for about $10. Here’s the brief description of the troubled item in case you have one: The wooden frames are white with decorations in different colors and have a coordinating ribbon attached to the top.
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