When we remove the enclosure of modern electronics, we see a lot of little silvery cylinders wrapped with heat shrink plastic. These aluminum electrolytic capacitors are common residents on circuit ...

I recently came across a disturbing piece of news about a recall of Ryobi pressurized washers on FOX Business (Figure 1). I got some pictures from there and elsewhere, which, with a little ...

Do we have a return of the PC exploding capacitor problem? Reports just in on The Age show that three Siemens trains were urgently taken out of service today after fire erupted in the DC / AC ...

I'm currently wading through nearly a month's worth of email and RSS feed backlog, before the next deadline bag o'bricks hits, and came across this Slashdot head-scratcher. Remember the leaky, ...