New Technology Alert!
American ingenuity just keeps going and going. First, Dell brought out their latest creation, the exploding laptop. Not content to concede defeat, Lexar announces it's latest innovation, the flaming zip drive!
Ok, we've had our fun, this is actually a warning to people who bought Lexar's JumpDrive FireFly family of flash drives, and the metallic silver colored 1GB JumpDrive Secure II. They are being recalled because they might overheat.
In a joint statement with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Lexar said consumers should stop using the affected products immediately and contact Lexar for a free replacement.
The recall involves around 66,000 devices from Lexar's JumpDrive FireFly family of flash drives, and the metallic silver colored 1GB JumpDrive Secure II. The affected JumpDrive Firefly flash memory drives were sold between April and May this year, for between $30 and $110. The recalled JumpDrive Secure devices were sold only at Fry's Electronics in May, for $80, the company said.
If you have one of these, or suspect you do, you can call 800-248-2798, toll free within the US only. Or you can go to the CPSC.gov website for further details.
Geek Stuff | Gaius July 7, 2006
By Blackhawk, July 7, 2006 @ 10:15 pm
I’ll put good money down that penguins are behind this…