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Urine Powered Battery Developed
Saeed al-Sahaf writes "Research investment into developing smaller and cheaper chips to process information in disposable health tests has been significant, but they were still reliant on an external power source. The researchers at Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology think they have overcome this problem with their latest urine powered battery. From the article "The battery is composed of paper, soaked in copper chloride, sandwiched between layers of magnesium and copper. The whole thing, once laminated in plastic, is just a millimeter thick, and 6cm by 3cm in size." The breakthrough promises a cheap and disposable power source for home health tests."
Don't bother pissing in the radiator. Now you can piss in the GAS TANK!
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
Next up: Bullshit powered battery. John Dvorak would probably be able to fuel his entire home from the stuff he spews!
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this will be great for those car trips where my laptop's battery dies and I have to wiz at the same time.
I'll be right back, I have to go fill up my laptop's battery....
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The whole thing, once laminated in plastic, is just a millimeter thick
So how does a reasonably sized chap introduce his electrolyte?
Now I have a legitimate reason to piss all over the Compaq laptops at work.. No more awkward thinking up spur of the moment excuses
What's that smell?
Absolute power!
So, does that make urine an energy drink?
...piss ON!
The copy writing muse wispered to me.. These are going to be called "UP Batteries" Urine Powered...
- Henrik
- when the Shadows descend -
Some called my "yellow jar" collection strange. Looks like the joke's on you, people!
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"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
This battery is going to take the pressure off the industry. It doesn't take a whiz to see that they're looking out for number one. Trust me, these guys are going to make a big splash very soon!
A Pee-Powered Peltier Six Pack Cooler!
Ok, so the first two beers are warm. I could live with it.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
If this thing could be made small enough, it could be put within the > bladder</a> (1.1 to 1.3 litres) to work as a permanent machine. It could talk using 802.11b and bluetooth, be its own 'hotspot' so that a human mesh can be made. You wouldnt need to carry a wallet at all. It could also check your health that way. I wonder if it can be used with a plug and an actuator to 'hold it' for you when you really have to go and have nowhere to go.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
In Soviet Russia, battery piss on YOU!
Entire universities could be powered by frat boys as they piss on the lawn and walls after getting drunk.
That was no urinal, son... that was a glory hole. Twenty bucks says that there was someone behind that hole dressed like the Gimp.
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Just my bigger male bird dog alone should be able to light up my block at night, and he's very accurate.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
trust me, she _means_ to do that. I'd suggest a plastic bed cover and learning to like it.
works for me.
** "It's not my job to stand between the people talking to me, and the ones listening to me." -- Pego the Jerk
And to think I was worried before about having a uroscopy...
should we call it bladdery acid?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
...where do you want to go today?
Now I almost *never* have to walk away from the computer!
This can lead to new improved home pregnancy tests with flashing lcd displays and fancy ringtones!
Great! Now I don't even have to get off the couch to change the batteries in my remote anymore. And as a side benefit, I don't have to *share* the remote anymore.