Tag: battery
VIDEO: Traditional battery rejuvenation techniques
Hey everyone. This week’s video is about those improvised battery recharging techniques we all use from time to time. You know the ones I mean – blowing on them, rubbing them, swapping them over or jiggling them about to get a few extra minutes of use out of a dying pair.
But do any of them work? Let’s find out! And let’s also video it. And then let’s put the video here:
VIDEO: Can you recharge NON-RECHARGEABLE batteries?
Well, can you? Let’s find out!
I can’t keep the secret – YES YOU CAN! I took a pair of fully-drained alkaline batteries and put them in a standard Ni-MH battery charger – and it worked! It worked! They charged up and came back from the dead! Look!
VIDEO: Reverse polarity battery test
Hey everyone. This week’s video is about batteries again, but I’ve decided to do something a little bit different this time. Something exciting. Something dangerous!
I though I’d see what happens when you put batteries in the WRONG WAY ROUND. Will there be a fire? An explosion? Some leaking chemicals? A matter/anti-matter detonation that rips a hole in the space/time continuum?
MacBook Air battery CAN be replaced: take one screwdriver…
One of the early criticisms levelled at Apple’s new MacBook Air ultra-thin notebook computer is that the battery seems to be a non-replaceable part.
While Air fans have said that carrying round a spare battery defeats the object of the machine’s portability, if the internal battery goes kaput, it would be a lot handier to be able to pop in a new one without having to send it away to Apple.
It turns out a distinctly low-tech solution exists. According to AppleInsider, all that’s required is “a single size-0 type Philips screwdriver and some diligence.”
VIDEO REVIEW: PIFCO AA battery power performance tested under a variety of conditions
How do the PIFCO batteries perform? Is buying 16 PIFCO zinc carbon batteries for £1 financial suicide, or can they run a torch? And what about the holy grail of battery power tests – can they power up a digital camera?
There’s only one way to find out. Get some PIFCO batteries from the pound shop, get some things that take the same size of batteries, then record a video of the results for the internet. Here is that video.
Shiny Video: Cheap pound shop batteries EXPOSED
Hi everyone, I’m here today with a very important piece of investigative journalism about the SHODDY and downright shameful state of the discount battery market.
Watch with HORROR as I insert a brand new set of cheap batteries into a torch – only to be rewarded by a pathetic five seconds of usable power. You may well get 12 batteries for £1 – but what use are they if they fizzle out after five pathetic seconds?
Shiny Video Review: Gary reviews Powerex rechargeable batteries
Gary Cutlack’s second video here on Tech Digest, and this week he’s looking at Powerex rechargeable batteries. Anyone that’s a fan of his work over at Idiot Toys would be familiar with his battery obsession, and his numerous ‘Battery Weeks’ which seem…
Philips' Xenium 9@9 mobile phone has a battery life of two months, apparently
We’ve all been there, on a night out, when your mobile phone dies right as you’re trying to phone for a taxi. You can try and carry around a gizmo like Proporta’s emergency charger, but what are the odds you’ll remember to charge that up? The only reasonable answer lies with Philips.
They’ve developed a confusingly-named Xenium 9@9 mobile, which has TWO MONTHS OF BATTERY LIFE. That…
Wireless electricity arrives – but only for RAZR users
Meet the excitingly-named WildCharge, the gadget that promises an end to 35 minutes of searching for your phone charger twice a week thanks to its wireless battery charging abilities.
The futuristic WildCharge exists in the now, has been made and is available to buy – but for some odd reason it’s only currently compatible with Motorola RAZR batteries. The good news is it’s relatively cheap for such a laws-of-physics-defying futuristic space device – Americans can pick one up for $60.
Japanese researcher claims batteries dangerous. Oh, hai there, Sony!
Someone get Gary, the Idiot Toys battery aficionado on the phone stat! We have some awful news about batteries that will probably render him useless to update his various sites for at least the next three days.
A Japanese researcher is claiming that lithium-ion batteries are dangerous, and not made well enough for the heavy-duty tasks they’re meant to perform. Masataka Wakihara, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, is calling for a change in design…
