MARKETER of printer ink and pioneer of non-smoking policies, Hewlett Packard has had to recall 135,000 laptop battery packs because they catch fire.

The lithium ion rechargeable battery packs are inside HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario, HP Compaq and Compaq Evo laptop computers. Apparently, there have been 16 reports of the batteries' overheating worldwide.

Each of the recalled packs has a barcode label starting with GC, IA, L0 or L1 and they were sold between March 2004 and May 2005. More information can be found here.

News Source: theInq