Hewlett-Packard is recalling around 15,700 HP and Compaq notebook batteries sold worldwide because they represent a burn and fire hazard.  This comes after HP received 20 reports of batteries overheating.
Notebooks involved in the recall are:

HP Pavilion, series dv1xxx and ze2xxx
HP Compaq, series nx48xx
Compaq Presario, series V2xxx and M2xxx

All the affected batteries have a bar code [...]

The Sunbelt Blog  has a good reminder post as to the dangers of being duped into installing fake codecs (compressor/decompressor) for multimedia applications.  The codec of concern here is called Emcodec. 
Emcodec makes a lot of claims (40% better "quality", playback support for all popular players ...) but it's really just a front for the Trojan.Zlob.J  Trojan.  It's [...]

Attention Nikon owners!  Nikon have expanded their list of batteries that have been recalled .  If you are the owner of a Nikon D100, D70 or D50 camera that uses an EN-EL3 (or EN-EL3a or EN-EL3e) battery then you might be affected.

This voluntary recall is limited only to those units of the Model EN-EL3 bearing the [...]

Got an HP laptop? Check this out :
Hewlett Packard is recalling around 135,000 battery packs for some HP and Compaq laptops because of overheating issues.
The lithium ion rechargeable battery packs in question are used with HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario, HP Compaq and Compaq Evo laptops.
HP has received sixteen reports of overheating batteries, four in the [...]

PStwo owners (that's the slimline version of the PS2), it's time to check your adaptors - check your adapter. If the adaptor was manufactured between August and December 2004 and came with PStwo models SCPH70002, SCPH70003 and SCPH70004, you could be one of the millions that has to send it back.
Details on finding [...]

I'm noticing a number of referrers on my logs from people looking for information on fixing/drying out a wet PC (I think that I'm getting hit because I made a post a while back of drying out a wet devices - I don't know if these are as a result of Hurricane Katrina or not [...]