ALERT: What to do if your accelerator sticks, how to stop your car.

anovelo — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:59:00 +0000

TechGeekandMore may have a focus on Technology, however, we all drive cars. Toyota has just announced that they are recalling Millions of Cars and also stopping production of much of their car line because of a sticking accelerator issue (until Toyota can figure out why its happening http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2010-01-26-toyota_N.htm), TGM felt that it was important to share this video from abc news. We all hope that something like this will never happen, but if it does it is very important that you know what to do.

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8980024

ALERT: Laptop Battery Recall – HP

anovelo — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:34:00 +0000

This week (Week ending May 16th, 2009), HP has announced a voluntary recall of laptop batteries. Its estimated that about 70,000 batteries that were made in China for both the HP and Compaq brands are at Risk. These batteries have a chance of overheating, which could cause then to do anything from catch fire up to exploding if the batteries rupture. Not all HP/Compaq batteries are affected by this recall.

You can find specific model and serial number information for each of the affected batteries at the Consumer Product Safety Commission Website http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09221.html or from the HP website at http://bpr.hpordercenter.com/hbpr/ .

Some of the affected models are -

HP dv2000, dv2500, dv2700, dv6000, dv6500, dv6700, dv9000, dv9500, dv9700

Compaq A900, C700, F700, V3000, V3500, V3700, V6000, V6500, V6700

HP G6000, G7000

Compaq 6720s

*HP and the HP logo are property of HP.

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