MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want

jangel writes "While its strategy for mobile devices might be a mess, Microsoft has announced something we'll all benefit from. The company's patented design for battery contacts will allow users of portable devices — digital cameras, flashlights, remote controls, toys, you name it — to insert their batteries in any direction. Compatible with AA and AAA cells, among others, the 'InstaLoad' technology does not require special electronics or circuitry, the company claims."

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Re:Did Microsoft REALLY just patent the diode brid

[PopeRatzo]

this idea is just silly

If it had come from Apple, there would be Nobel nominations.

And Sun Tzu also said, "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting".