Considering that we're still getting reports every month or so about laptop batteries catching on fire and exploding, it's not really paranoid to be a little worried about the chemical cells that keep your notebook up and running.
When the crisis broke a few years ago, much research went into battery safety, but nothing ever came of it commercially, and today's batteries are more or less designed the same as they've ever been, just with a little stricter production processes.
Now, finally, one of these "safer" batteries has come to market via HP, which is selling batteries based on technology from Boston Power. The company claims its Sonata cells are "designed to meet and beat any safety standard" available. The HP version of these battery packs, known as the HP Enviro Series, are the first end-user products to use the Sonata technology, a technology which was first demonstrated over two years ago.
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