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Microsoft Instaload: Insert Batteries Any Way You Like | |
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| Time: 09:10 EST/14:10 GMT | News Source: Wired | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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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 recessed inner contact. This, combined with some simple circuitry, makes sure the current is always running the right way. | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (173.27.246.50) at 7/2/2010 11:42:08 AM |
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Apparently Ballmer sees this toy as a much better use of MS's time and money than putting out software with tighter code which runs better with fewer holes.
What market could possibly be interested in Instaload? I put this on the worst idea list under Kin and Microsoft Bob. |
| #2 By 2960 (72.205.26.164) at 7/6/2010 9:44:36 AM |
| Microsoft Bob (Hardware Edition). |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 7/8/2010 10:04:49 AM |
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#2: Microsoft Bob (Hardware Edition)
I'm sorry, were you referring to the Kin or this new battery thingy? |
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