The Jeff Jarvis Conference - Sponsored by Dell

In Japan, they have conferences for everything.  So, it only made sense to have a conference about and/or for Jeff Jarvis. Of course, it only makes sense to have a sponsor and the only sponsor worthy of Jeff would be Dell computing.

And what better way to honor Jeff?  Exactly, explode a laptop during the conference and have it burn, live, for all to see:

Okay, maybe it wasn’t a Jarvis conference, fine, a minor detail as it was a Dell laptop.

Full story here. I got it via Gizmodo here.

Side note: It is possible it was just the power brick that blew up with somebody being oopsie on what plugs in where? Somebody keep a time log of how long it take Dell to tell everybody what actually happened.

[This space reserved for Dell to provide answer(s)]

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"For the record, this is a Dell machine," notes Guilhem. "It is only a matter of time until such an incident breaks out on a plane," he suggests. "

Grrrrrrrrr.. will this mean that all Laptops may now be considered a fire hazard and banned on planes ??

I wonder what will happen if DHS and IATA banned Laptops.. Will it certainly is a Risk - read Big Risk !!