ok so I made a new video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsA3X40nz9w
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@TechConnectify I still have the indentations in my thumbs!
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@TechConnectify At least it's a charged topic, but not in a bad way
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@TechConnectify remember? My fingers still hurt from pressing 😄
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@TechConnectify you mean like this Duracell that had march 2024 expiry date?
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@TechConnectify Oh delightful! I always wondered how they worked (and why they were designed to destroy finger(nail)s).
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@TechConnectify 100% agree - it's a cool idea but the problem it solves just isn't that big of a deal. I know batteries are dead because the thing using the batteries doesn't turn on.
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@TechConnectify suddenly my fingers hurt (thx for making neat videos)
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@TechConnectify Oh yeah I remember this showing up, then going away, showing up and then going away again.
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What a blast to the past. Thanks for that!
Yes, they were pretty hard to press. I remember that. I do remember them to be useful, but mostly because so many devices used them that there were batteries everywhere, and sometimes some got lost and it was useful to know their charge.
As you said, thankfully we are past that.
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@TechConnectify I do remember those!
Excited to find out how everything I thought I knew about them is wrong.
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@TechConnectify Ooh, looking forward to it!
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@TechConnectify powerful stuff!
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@TechConnectify just wanted to add my sentiments that I appreciate you still posting here even with the misgivings you've had with the platform.
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@TechConnectify I loved that feature! And was actually sad when they went away and I had to buy an actual battery tester xD
(I am one of those people who has use cases that involve taking batteries out of things used rarely but for important purposes, as in, exactly their target market and I bought them preferentially. Obviously, a dedicated battery tester is more useful... but still.)
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When I was a kid, we had such a 4-pack packaging with such a test strip. I kept it precious as it was such a unique and magic thing.
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@TechConnectify Thanks for the great video! As always, it’s a fantastic introduction to a fun technical topic. I’ve never seen these batteries, but my grandfather gave me a multimeter when I was a child so I could test whether the batteries were still charged.
P.S. For those like me who prefer not to visit Google sites in the same browser they're logged in to, here's an article about battery power meters that's cited in the video: https://tedium.co/2021/01/20/on-battery-power-meter-history/
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@TechConnectify i went as one of these batteries for halloween as a child one year! my father and i (mostly him) made a simple strip of leds on prototype board that lit up sequentially at the push of a button, and mounted it on the front of an overturned garbage can w/ head and armholes, and of course the spray-painted copper top 😹
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@TechConnectify but it's so much easier to just check your battery by licking it!
no sore fingers!
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@TechConnectify Yesss, I thought these were so cool as a kid. I had an original Game Boy so I went through a lot of AAs.
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@TechConnectify not long? Check the expiration date on this battery. Got it with a Google TV dongle thing, two years ago I think.
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@TechConnectify @LaserdiscTurtle I just remember it never working! 😄
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@Kristofferabild @TechConnectify I could get them working...but my fingers still remember just how hard you had to press them.
I notice in the video it mentions they're designed for 21°C...good luck with that most of the year round in UK and Denmark! 🤣
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@LaserdiscTurtle @Kristofferabild @TechConnectify ooh, I remember those. Bookmarked for later viewing. Oh, your absolutely right Ewan, my poor fingertips! 😆
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@TechConnectify Those were sooooo hard to press enough to make them do anything
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@TechConnectify clearly the solution is to include a bt/wifi chip in every battery so you can download a junky app to be told this is no longer supported
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@anthropy @TechConnectify wonderful
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@TechConnectify I don't remember the built-in tester on the battery itself, but I do remember the battery tester built into the packaging for Duracell batteries. I used it all the time.
These days, I use a dedicated battery tester to test my old batteries.
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@Starcade @TechConnectify This was my first memory of these as well. I also remember noticing how they had integrated that into the batteries themselves.
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@TechConnectify It took so much muscle strength to squeeze those batteries. I was amazed by the feature, though — felt magical. I can’t remember exactly when I first squeezed those Duracells. 1996, maybe. 🤔 I will obviously watch this video to learn more!
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@TechConnectify Oooh, excited for this one. I used to wonder how they worked.
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@TechConnectify Nice!
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@TechConnectify This is great. Apart form the shot of nostalgia, a great demo of a very clever solution to a non-problem.
[#]design
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@TechConnectify Wow, I don't think I had even realized that Duracell batteries don't have a tester on them anymore.
I guess in a sense, the tester still works: if it has a tester, it's definitely dead.
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@TechConnectify They still make those “powercheck” batteries in Europe though. I remember this feature presented as something “new” in 2010’s ad even.
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@TechConnectify I'm kinda shocked that so many people used normal batteries in battery hungry devices. I remember as a kid when friends had RC cars and whatever, they'd run out of batteries and then they'd be paper weights until their parents would buy them more batteries. Both my grandpa and dad had several sets of rechargeable AAs, that I used everywhere. When they ran out, there were charged ones waiting. I can't understand this wasn't what everyone did.
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@TechConnectify In the modern times with consoles I continued this tradition, except the rechargeable batteries had gotten a lot better. Yet it was pretty common for people in multiplayer games to constantly complain how they ran out of batteries and had to steal them from a remote or something.
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@apzpins @TechConnectify 1) Silence, or at least the noise from the toys with dead batteries goes away until the adult gets around to replacing them. 2) Expense, the rechargeables were quite a bit more initially, and some people just didn’t get into them for that reason.
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@scuttlebutt Seeing how my friends would beg, beg and beg for the batteries, I would have assumed them having rechargeable ones that would have sent the kid outside to drive with the RC car or whatever would have been easier.
Can't comment on the cost, I knew they were more expensive, but for an RC car that uses like 6 or 8 batteries a day, I would have expected anyone with basic math abilities to figure out the right course of action. But then again, I'm used to getting disappointed.
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@TechConnectify Nice, I remember those. not easy to test, you're right! It required nails!
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@TechConnectify Those strips were like magical to me.
I forgot about them and I'm grateful you made a video about it, now I know how they work.
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@TechConnectify I had totally forgotten about these until I saw the thumbnail.
I'd never have guessed that's how it worked, but it makes complete sense when you think how it looks as the bar fills up
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@TechConnectify it's a great video, and i completely agree on the uselessness of the feature.
But did you really use one time batteries in a walkman? I thought that was the moment to get rechargeables for everyone
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I have fond memories of these. That, and the finger pain that came with using them.
I also recall them trying this concept a few times, at least in some stores you could get a more modern version.
Neat to see how they work! :blobfoxfingerguns:
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Actually, what I found out back then was that sometimes batteries in a device ran empty at different speeds, so sometimes it was useful to check which one of the 3 or 4 batteries is actually really empty and replace that one while the others would still go on for a while until the next one has to be replaced. You didn't win much by this though. But it still felt like more clever and efficient than replace all batteries at once.
Thank you for the video!
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@TechConnectify YOu ARE ON MASTODON !!i love you and your videos thanks! you are awesome
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@TechConnectify No cap thought this was like, a really recent innovation, cause I'm Gen Z and feel like I started seeing these on new batteries in my teens? Wild that this tech has been out there forever and is so simple to boot
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@TechConnectify great video. Thanks. I seem to remember energizer briefly copying this with an incorporated battery tester that showed a green “good” light f the battery was charged. Or something like that.
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So weird that I was wondering what happened to those just yesterday.
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They definitely do not last long; Even if you never use them. They will just die on the shelf or in a drawer.
Do not buy large packages of batteries that you not use for years. They will go bad.
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What an exciting and important development in battery technology I said to myself at 9 years old, I then slapped a metallic bracelet onto my wrist and deftly avoided burning a hole in my tongue with warheads before venturing out into the woods with a pack of other kids unsupervised for 12 hours.
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@TechConnectify this gave me phantom pain in my fingers...
At least nowadays you find many different "batteries" that you can recharge
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@TechConnectify Your video explained everything.
But I used a multimeter, more easy.
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@TechConnectify TURBO MAX
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@TechConnectify Love how the actual heating was "movie magic" but you're still white knuckle pressing that thing.
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@TechConnectify now I want such indicators in my rechargeable batteries
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@TechConnectify oh, saw that video yesterday after the YT algo recommended it to me to watch next :D. And now got it through a retoot here, too.
And yes, I do remember them. That was a super fun and magical feature as a kid back then :-).
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@TechConnectify Pressing those dots so hard even I could feel it while in fact you were heating it with a hairdryer is mad dedication. And I love it!
I might still have the dents on my fingers from that era.
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@TechConnectify I could've sworn I had another brand of battery fairly recently that had this battery meter on it (like, as of 3 years ago)
I forgot about them until this video, and now I wish I knew where they went so I could see if they were from 2003!
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@TechConnectify Video Idea! Mostly as I want to understand why this happens. So I collect 80s/90s RC cars, and so often we find that not only have the batteries leaked, but the blue candy powder has somehow invisibly travelled along the power cables deep into the toy and begun eating away at the circuitboard. It seems to eat it from the inside, expanding the board which crumbles and can be scraped away until nothing is left. Quite frustrating. I'd love to know why this happens.
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