
Microsoft Instaload: Insert Batteries Any Way You Like
July 2nd, 2010 admin

Microsoft has come up with an amazingly obvious tweak to battery tech that should save us some headaches, as well as several trillion hours of head-scratching and peering into dark holes. Named Instaload, the invention lets you stuff the batteries into a device any which-way you fancy, eliminating the need to read dark directional diagrams. The most impressive part is the low-tech way this is handled. Each contact in the battery compartment has both positive and negative terminals. If the fat, flat end of the battery is pressing against them, it touches the outside contact. If it is the pointy positive end then it makes contact with a slightly…
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| TakubeeBallin (Taku Yamaguchi) : I think her phone ran out of batteries.. Aha.. Updated : 2010-09-07T04:18:08Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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SabrinaBooks (Continental Products) : 60 darts, 4 clips, 6 D-batteries, full-auto: the Nerf Stampede is here: Ars TechnicaThe newer Nerf weapons feature... http://bit.ly/cfYRkK.. Updated : 2010-09-07T04:17:27Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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Classicbookmags (Jeff A. Jones) : 60 darts, 4 clips, 6 D-batteries, full-auto: the Nerf Stampede is here http://bit.ly/bYlsiH.. Updated : 2010-09-07T04:17:26Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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watchesimple (RobertKo) : If you do not use rechargeable batteries, should shine again save electric: If you do not employ rechargeable batt... http://bit.ly/aRZaAR.. Updated : 2010-09-07T04:16:59Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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TrillJayJohnson (Jay Johnson) : "What are you saying iz dead? Our marriage or our batteries?" --The Simpson's.. Updated : 2010-09-07T04:16:49Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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