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Remember when the future was each AA battery having its own thumb destroying built-in tester? Imagine AA batteries with little LCD screens.
by Waterluvian 1y ago
Remember when the future was each AA battery having its own thumb destroying built-in tester?
Imagine AA batteries with little LCD screens.
- mhuffman 1y agoAt some point your thumbs wouldn't activate the pads so you had to use your thumbnails and then it was just a matter of time before the tester strip quit working.
- Dwedit 1y agoTechnology Connections did a video about those very batteries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsA3X40nz9w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsA3X40nz9w
- mopsi 1y agoIt's interesting that he speaks of them as something very old, but such batteries were still widely available in Europe not too long ago. I have a pack of Duracell PowerCheck AAA batteries made in Belgium and labeled good until 03/2029, which suggests a manufacturing date of 2019.