Panasonic pitches 'safe' lithium-ion laptop battery

[Steve]

Burnin' down the house... or rather, hopefully not!

Panasonic parent Matsu****a today announced what it claims is a "safe" lithium-ion rechargeable battery. The secret: inserting a layer of heat-resistant insulating material to prevent fire-starting internal short-circuits of the kind that ignited a number of notebooks this year.

[El Reg]

Edit: LOLz at the HEXUS.unsweareriser... Matsu****a FTW.

[awm]

Good someone is working on non-explosive batteries. My guess is that they will sell well courtesy of the Sony fiasco (I should specify, the battery fiasco).