Recently a quarry worker in South Korea was found dead with a melted phone battery in his shirt pocket. He also had a broken spine and ribs as well as heart and lung injuries, but his death was initially blamed on an exploding cell phone battery [1].

Predictably, the National Institute of Scientific Investigation [2] found that the injuries the man suffered were too substantial to have been caused by a battery explosion, but the fact that they could have been responsible for the man's death got me thinking.

I've honestly never suffered a major tech disaster, so I am always a little shocked when I hear news of iPods catching on fire in people's pants [3] or exploding laptops [4]. It's scary because we assume our devices are safe and tested so we don't expect anything dangerous to happen to us while using them.

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