Watch those whiskers

[Guy Lavoie]

And I'm not talking about cats here.

I just came across this interesting article about the problem of tin whiskers in electronic devices. I thought some of you might also like to read it:

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/thisjustin/...00.html?cnn=yes

 

[electron]

wow I have never heard of this, that's a great article, thanks for posting!

 

[sbessel]

... just great, now another reason not to sleep at night.

 

[unrealii]

thanks for the heads up...just threw my computer in the dumpster to avoid possible problems


wow, thats crazy. Can't imagine what would happen if whiskers grew on car batteries, really old mines, or whatnot.