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Hardware Hackers Reveal Apple's Charger Secrets

Posted by kdawson on from the hard-charging dept.

ptorrone writes "In this 7-minute video we explore the mysteries of Apple device charging. Usually, device makers need to sign a confidentially agreement with Apple if they want to say their charger 'works with iPhone / iPod,' and they're not allowed to talk about how the insides work. If you don't put these secret resistors on the data lines too, you get the dreaded Charging is not supported with this accessory. We demonstrate how anyone can make their own chargers that work with iPhone 4, 3Gs, etc."

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  1. Resistance is Futile by Maarx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Resistance is Futile

    1. Re:Resistance is Futile by KarrdeSW · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ohm, I see what you did there.

    2. Re:Resistance is Futile by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Can someone please explain watt the hell they're talking about?

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    3. Re:Resistance is Futile by TheJokeExplainer · · Score: 5, Funny

      I didn't quite get it. Can you explain it Fermi?

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    4. Re:Resistance is Futile by commodore64_love · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think I just thought of a great new website:

      "Girls of Electronica" Dot. Com. Watch the ladies as they solder and desolder iPhones and other high-tech gadgets, while also being topless. See voltmeters probing things they were never meant to probe! Or vibrating air guns used in creative new fashion! Only $5 a month.

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    5. Re:Resistance is Futile by ArbitraryDescriptor · · Score: 4, Funny

      The current direction of this discussion has the potential to give me a pun-migraine.

      electron! Whew.

    6. Re:Resistance is Futile by nacturation · · Score: 5, Funny

      Can someone please explain watt the hell they're talking about?

      I don't think you'd have the capacity to understand.

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    7. Re:Resistance is Futile by ArbitraryDescriptor · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wye would you do that when I had just rectified the situation?? On a side note, I am trying to phase caffeine out of my daily routine.

    8. Re:Resistance is Futile by sconeu · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, Resistance is futile, but the voltage, on the other hand, has potential.

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    9. Re:Resistance is Futile by Bill_the_Engineer · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think we need to transform this conversation into something else.

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    10. Re:Resistance is Futile by easterberry · · Score: 4, Funny

      wire you so insistent of ending our fun? Do you find puns re-volt-ing or something?

    11. Re:Resistance is Futile by easterberry · · Score: 4, Funny

      Those claims are groundless! I may have to charge you with libel.

    12. Re:Resistance is Futile by Kozz · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think I just thought of a great new website:

      "Girls of Electronica" Dot. Com. Watch the ladies as they solder and desolder iPhones and other high-tech gadgets, while also being topless. See voltmeters probing things they were never meant to probe! Or vibrating air guns used in creative new fashion! Only $5 a month.

      Try explaining to the wife, "Honey, I just read it for the circuit diagrams."

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  2. Re:Good Lord! by couchslug · · Score: 4, Funny

    "She's certainly well-geeky, but 'hot' she's not ;-)"

    Nonsense! She has all the characteristics of hotness:

    Airway.
    Breathing.
    Circulation.

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  3. Re:Good Lord! by Spazntwich · · Score: 3, Funny

    Want to cry into your underwear with nerdlust?

    Read an article from http://badphysics.wordpress.com/, spend a few futile minutes googling for more pictures and trying to internally reconcile her ravishing looks with such effortless eloquence and boundless intelligence, and then fall even deeper into self-loathing despair with the realization that even your hypothetical best version of yourself wouldn't be good enough for her.

    Or, you know, don't. But you get my point. Hopefully, because I don't.

  4. Re:Good Lord! by Spazntwich · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm still trying to figure out if you're talking about catching her on a day with low self-esteem... or rape.

  5. Re:Good Lord! by commodore64_love · · Score: 3, Funny

    Airway.
    Breathing.
    Circulation.
    Dick? (checks) Nope. Houston we're ready for liftoff.

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  6. Re:Good Lord! by IAmGarethAdams · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, but will she blend?

  7. Re:Good Lord! by Lev13than · · Score: 4, Funny

    Airway.
    Breathing.
    Circulation.
    Dick? (checks) Nope. Houston we're ready for liftoff.
    Erection? (checks self) Nope. Houston, we have a problem.

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  8. Re:Good Lord! by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can upgrade to the latest model every few years. As long as you can afford it.

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  9. Re:Good Lord! by Snarkalicious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since when did jerking off in the bushes outside someone's bedroom window count as rape? Jesus, guys...it's not as if I'm sort of sicko.

  10. Re:Stupid chargers by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 3, Funny

    This cannot be! Apple is about supplying the best customer experience, about rolling out magical devices to the masses to free them from the bondage and slavery of technology as imposed by those proprietary, secretive for-profit companies!

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