The Lenovo shop in Guangzhou, China bore witness to a frightful event when the recently charged battery in a cellphone in a customer’s shirt pocket suddenly exploded. The shrapnel from the explosion sliced through his carotid artery causing him to bleed to death.

Update: It turns out he wasn’t killed by an exploding battery at all, rather he was killed by what appears to have been an accidental discharge from a homemade firearm that he was carrying. Find out more here.

At present the manufacturer of the cellphone battery is not known. [Tech Ticker via Gizmodo]

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The Lenovo IdeaCenter A600 all-in-one desktop is most definitely taking a leaf out of the iMac book, but given the cheaper cost of non-Apple parts, it just might be an iMac killer. It comes with a choice of Core 2 Duo processors, 21.5″ 1920×1080 full HD screen, optional Blu-ray, up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, optional ATI Radeon graphics card (not sure what one), up to 1TB of HDD space, facial recognition technology, and a motion sensitive remote control cum gaming controller (a la Nintendo Wii) that can also be used as a VOIP handset.

The price starts from $999, but it is heavily customizable so we are assuming that one could part with a lot more if he or she chose to do so. It is a very nice unit, and as long as it is priced below the iMac, it is a system I would definitely consider getting. One thing that I do hope though, is that all-in-one manufacturers start including an extra HDMI out, so we can get some dual screen action going. [Engadget]

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Tongues are wagging about a shot that was spied on the Lenovo Flickr page. As you can see from the picture it is a full-sized keyboard with num-pad and an in-built track pad. There are no cables connecting it, so it can be assumed to be wireless. It also appears to be extremely flat. There is no word as to whether this is a design concept or whether it is something that is under development, but if it does see the light of day, I will take two. [Flickr via Engadget]

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Lenovo’s Mobile Vault is a 160GB / 320GB USB drive which comes with a keypad and 128-bit encryption. The drive allows access to up to ten users and one administrator. For some, perhaps, this is overkill, but for accountants, lawyers and anyone else who regularly deals with sensitive information, it is a timely release.

Price: Not available, but expected to be $179 for the 160GB and $219 for the 320GB. [Gear Log via Slash Gear]

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The ever vigilant TSA has taken exception to the MacBook Air, allegedly due to the lack of an optical drive and lack of ports. I suspect the real reasons to be technological ignorance and gross incompetence, but that is another story. Apparently an owner of a MacBook Air was kept waiting so long that he missed his flight, while his svelte device was pawed by oafish security goons that would perhaps have been less perplexed by a Lenovo.

Sources: Engadget, GearLog

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