When temperatures soar, kids and critters aren't the only things not to leave in a parked car. The battery in your cell phone, iPod, or iPhone could explode, or ooze. And "the temperature in a locked car can fry microcircuits" that power PDAs like Blackberry and Treo, warns Consumer Electronics answer-man Dave Graveline.
Graveline fields questions about gadgets and gizmos on his weekend radio show "Into Tomorrow" on over 100 stations across the USA and on XM Satellite Radio.
"One caller told me she burned her ear when she went to use a phone she left in the car." Other callers report DVDs and music CDs melting. "Excessive heat and direct sunlight can cook digital cameras, flash drives, almost anything electronic," he cautions. "Even GPS units intended to be dashboard mounted should be stashed in the glove compartment."
Posted to the site on 6th August 2007
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