Dominic Shrimp - Slashdot User

MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want 453

Posted by timothy on Friday July 02, 2010 @07:07AM 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."

Comment Re:What's the problem? (Score 1) 955

by s20451 on Thursday April 10, 2008 @02:52PM (#23028060) Attached to: Many Scientists Using Performance Enhancing Drugs

It is possible to be coerced by the structure of the problem. See "prisoner's dilemma".

Submission + - Jet powered wings

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04, 2007 @07:35PM

An anonymous reader writes: "Thanks to high technology and nerve, Yves Rossy has come closer than anyone to realising the ancient dream of soaring free, flitting through the sky, guided only by the body. As well as a crash helmet he wears a small pair of wings and four tiny jet engines." Ref: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2523 783,00.html

Comment He doesn't really get it. (Score 5, Insightful) 392

by Dominic Shrimp on Monday January 20, 2003 @10:11PM (#5123527) Attached to: Bad News From Canada On NetTV And Media Levies

Don't think for a minute that he actually "gets it". As a member of the official opposition his opinion becomes the exact opposite of everything the government says. If the Alliance ever won an election they'd be jumping in bed with whatever lobbiest was paying the most, just like any other politician.

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