He explored the concept of a military aircraft designed around an integrated electronics fire-control system built by various subcontractors.
Since 2003, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has recorded hundreds of cases of lithium-ion batteries in portable electronics catching fire, although nobody seems to have been seriously injured in such an incident.
Instead, it is the Echo, a screenless, voice-controlled household computer built by Amazon — a company whose last big foray into consumer electronics, the Fire Phone, was a humiliating flop.
Mr. Guidal maintains, though, that the physical examinations he underwent upon joining the Fire Department did not detect a back fracture, and he insists he had no symptoms until he was injured in the electronics store fire.
After Mr. Guidal was hurt in the electronics store fire in 1989, a Fire Department doctor told him that his back was sprained, gave him pain killers and recommended rest.
Tyco operates a diversified portfolio of businesses in a wide range of industries from electronics to fire and safety, as well as engineered products and health care.
It also breaks out sub-lists of Fastest-Falling searches (sorry, MySpace, Hi5, and Meebo), Fastest-Rising People (Black, Jobs, Adele, Charlie Sheen), and Fastest-Rising Consumer Electronics (Kindle Fire is No. 1, beating out iPhone 4S).
Electronics contain fire retardants, heavy metals and other materials that are challenging to remove, said Kreigh Hampel, the city's public works recycling coordinator.
It was clear a revolution had taken place: you could even hear it in the charts in the gulf between the rudimentary rapping and garage shuffle of So Solid and Oxide & Neutrino in 2000 and the alien electronics of More Fire's Oi in 2002.
Expect Amazon to feature its own line of electronics, including the Fire tablet, Kindle, Echo, and the various Alexa devices.
