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bdegroodt
02-27-2003, 06:10 PM
Saw this one on /. and made me wonder why we still have to recharge 2 times a day.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2804257.stm
Cracknell
02-27-2003, 06:20 PM
I guess Ben Franklin didn't discover electricity afterall? He was just plain getting stupid with that kite in thunderstorm as I always suspect.
bdegroodt
02-27-2003, 06:22 PM
I guess Ben Franklin didn't discover electricity afterall? He was just plain getting stupid with that kite in thunderstorm as I always suspect.

Yeah...Kind of like how Newton was out screwing off under an apple tree instead of working in the lab and "discovered" gravity. :P
PetiteFlower
02-27-2003, 06:30 PM
Saw this one on /. and made me wonder why we still have to recharge 2 times a day.

Well duh, because you don't have a Dell ;)
ux4484
02-27-2003, 06:38 PM
I remember the Bagdad battery from "In Search of" from back in HS, looks like the theories about it have not developed much since then.

On Sir Isaac (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_753470.html?menu=news.quirkies)
Report earlier this week that the father of gravity predicted the world will end in 2060.
bdegroodt
02-27-2003, 07:44 PM
Saw this one on /. and made me wonder why we still have to recharge 2 times a day.

Well duh, because you don't have a Dell ;)

Nice one. I do have battery envy...it's true. I talked a friend into getting his first PDA and pushed him to get the Dell. Now I call him all the time and ask him to tell me more about it. :D