Technology Is Your Friend; Lithium Batteries? Maybe Not So Much!

samsungRemember those smartphone commercials with the hip millennials sneering at their geezer parents who were waiting in line for a new iPhone?

Passengers expecting to travel on Southwest Airlines from Louisville to Baltimore last Wednesday had a change of itinerary. A passenger’s Samsung Galaxy Note 7, with the new safe battery, went up in flames.

As if that wasn’t enough, hospital emergency rooms are receiving patients suffering effects of exploding electronic cigarettes. Not explained was why over half the vaping injuries were to the groin and thigh area.

And for god’s sake, don’t text while hoverboarding.

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