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MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want

Posted by timothy on from the dis-orientation dept.

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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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    courtesy of Opera 10.60.

    Suck it.

  2. So... by dangitman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Microsoft has invented the diode? Thank goodness for that, I don't think electronics could progress any further without it.

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  3. Let me guess by MichaelSmith · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Four diodes

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  4. Re:Did Microsoft REALLY just patent the diode brid by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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".

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