AstroAI recalls minifridges over fire hazard that caused $360,000 in property damages
AstroAI is recalling 249,100 minifridges on Wednesday over fire and burn hazards after two of the compact refrigerators caught fire, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage.
The personal refrigerators' electrical switch can short circuit, posing fire and burn risks, according to a notice from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
CPSC has received at least 70 reports of the minifridges emitting smoke, burning, melting or catching fire. Two fires caused more than $360,000 in property damages, the recall notice states.
Manufactured in China, the recalled 4-liter, 6-can capacity minifridges measure 9.45 inches in diameter, 6.9 inches wide and 10 inches tall. Available in black, white, blue and pink, the fridges were sold online for about $40 on Amazon.com and Astroai.com from June 2019 through June 2022.
The recalled minifridges' model number is LY0204A, which is printed on a label on the back of the product. Nine-digit serial numbers of the affected units starts with "S/N" and begin with either 19, 20, 21, 2201, 2202 or 2203.
Consumers with the recalled fridges are urged to immediately stop using them and to contact AstroAI by email at recall@astroai.com or through a dedicated page on the company's website at https://www.astroai.com/product-recall for a replacement product.
Disposal of the recalled minifridges should be in accordance with state and local waste disposal procedures, the CPSC states.
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So Bob, some sobering stats there, but let's give us, uh, just please your overview of things that have happened recently, a lot of developments in the market, the economy, and technology ingeneral. Well, look, it's an incredibly exciting time in tech, right? I mean, we are transitions and developments happening at a pace that are just unheard of. I mean, I've been covering the tech industry as a tech industry analyst for 25 years, and, you know, we thought some of the early days of the cloud were fast moving and we thought some of the developments around, you know, smartphones when the iPhone hits were fast moving, that's like child's play compared to this. This stuff is moving at a pace that's, it's frankly unheard of and a lot of people are frankly are having a hard time adjusting to it, but the fact of the matter of course, comments like a 20% unemployment rate applies. They don't get your eye. But look, we're opening up some new opportunities and we're finally getting to the point where we're seeing technology actually show a sense of intelligence. I'm not talking about general intelligence and all that kind of stuff. I, I think we're a long way away from that, but we are seeing technology products and services that are genuinely doing things we're like, is really cool, right? I mean, when Siri and some of those early AI assistants came out, we all kind of hoped they would do something that's like the Flintstones. Well, that'sthe thing. You look at it now and you're like, oh my God, but that, that kind of planted the seed of this notion of, you know, a digital assistant or something that could actually help me and and be driven by technology. Now we're there and we're starting to I, I do think getting it really widely deployed in a way that average people can use and everything else is gonna take a while, but you know, all the pieces are being put into place. 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So it's about speed, privacy and unlocking these new use cases. So I, I think public awareness right now of AI in general is pretty low. So when we talk about hybrid, that's just a layer, another layer of obscurity here, but tell us about what it means to you. Yeah, no, I mean, so the idea with hybrid AI is obviously we have these tremendous resources in the cloud with, you know, chat GPT and all the other things and all these big models that are running primarily in the we've also seen a number of companies start to say, you know, actually I'd like to do some of that, but with my own data, and oh by the way, not all of my data is in the cloud despite, you know, common misperceptions that that's the case. And then finally on top of that, of course, we have PCs and smartphones and wearables, uh, and I was just on a, you know, I was on a briefing this morning with AM they're talking about how AI is coming into the car as well. So, and all of these things are of running some of this AI work, but you don't want to have everything dependent on the cloud because first of all, that means all the data has to go to the cloud and and there's a lot of cloud goes down sometimes it does go down theydo and you know, and that's why in a car you could never do that. A car has to be, you know, autonomous on its own and then occasionally hit the cloud for information or updates and and certain capabilities. Uh, so think of that scenario, but then apply it to things like a PC as well, a again, companies, I mean, there have been various studies put out by some of the big, uh, market research firms that 50, 60%, as much as 70% of a corporation's data still lives behind the firewall that is in their data center or in a private cloud somewhere there's there's been this concept for a long time what's called data gravity, which means I want to do the work where the data resides, uh, especially because moving data into and out of the cloud costs money and time and, and lots of issues. So what companies are recognizing is, hey, my data my most important data is the stuff I keep behind the firewall, and I wanna be able to use uh these GPU servers uh on my own data and create my own applications. I'm not gonna ignore the fact that there's stuff in the cloud, uh, but I'm gonna do it here and then, oh by the way, there's also the another thing that plays into this, sorry, I know it's like it's a little, I got a burning question, this is so interesting. Well, because the other thing that's going on is if you look at the projections for how much power just electrical power is gonna take to run all the data centers that people say they're gonna build, it's like the grid can't handle that, right? And there's not enough water to cool these things because they all have to be liquid cooled, a certain point, just a common sense logic tells you, well, how do we do the compute we need but spread it out? Well, one obvious way is to do that across devices so that you can spread it out and do some of the types of applications that perhaps you would go to the cloud for locally. 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