Submission + - Microsoft's Instaload Battery Technology Patent (youtube.com)
altzone writes: Microsoft’s new Instaload battery technology allows batteries to be inserted into a product either way around:
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/licensing/instaloadoverview.mspx
Is it one of those brilliant “why didn’t anyone think of that before” moments, or just another silly patent on a really obvious idea?
Is it workable in practice?
Dave Jones from the EEVblog ponders these questions in his latest video blog, and ask viewers if they can bust Microsoft's patent by finding prior art before May 26th, 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nXQ5BhNdkk
Check out the Patent for yourself:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=hVXGAAAAEBAJ
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/licensing/instaloadoverview.mspx
Is it one of those brilliant “why didn’t anyone think of that before” moments, or just another silly patent on a really obvious idea?
Is it workable in practice?
Dave Jones from the EEVblog ponders these questions in his latest video blog, and ask viewers if they can bust Microsoft's patent by finding prior art before May 26th, 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nXQ5BhNdkk
Check out the Patent for yourself:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=hVXGAAAAEBAJ