Question:
Integral fire alarm in electronic goods?What are the thoughts about installing fire alarms in consumer electronics goods? Do TVs cause many fires? Computers? Where people are lax about installing fire alarms in their houses would alarms in comsumer goods save anything? Who would be the stakeholders?

Answer: -And what would you do with all those false alarms resulting from tobacco smoke or kitchen cooking? My impression is that TV's and computers have a very low rate of fire initiation. What detection technology would you use? The same as in smoke detectors? Are we going to have to deal with small radioactive sources in our toasters and televisions? Seems to me this is a great way to force unwanted additional complexity on people.

-You've GOT to be kidding. Smoke alarms cause too many false alarms. The last thing we need when the wife burns the pot roast is to have to search for three hours for the manual to our TV to learn how to turn off the smoke alarm.