lemmy.yachts
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
mesamunefire@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

What Happened To Duracell PowerCheck?

hackaday.com

external-link
message-square
67
fedilink
291
external-link

What Happened To Duracell PowerCheck?

hackaday.com

mesamunefire@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
message-square
67
fedilink
Remember Duracell’s PowerCheck? The idea was that a strip built into the battery would show if the battery was good or not. Sure, you could always get a meter or a dedicated battery tester &#…
  • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 months ago

    It was gimmicky as hell. Did it work? Who cares. It was irrelevant for 90% of consumers.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      9 months ago

      I really miss it honestly. Kids, so, so many batteries in my house.

      Dad, my blah blah blah isn’t working right. Then I have to go dig out this monster:

      • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        9 months ago

        Your kids will inherit that charger, and their kids afterward.

      • hOrni@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        9 months ago

        Why does it look so weird? I’m not even sure what shape I’m looking at.

        • linearchaos@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          9 months ago

          Just an inch thick plastic box with a perspective drawing sticker on top of it, But the box is shaped to fit the perspective drawing.

        • Myro@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          9 months ago

          Haha yeah, it looks like a fake picture or some cartoon.

      • Petter1@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        9 months ago

        I just use an old multimeter that I saved from eWaste 😂😇

        • linearchaos@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          9 months ago

          I have no lack of proper test equipment, this is actually kind of nice because the kids can use it easily without trying to wrangle a battery and two leads.

      • oldfart@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        9 months ago

        What in the fuckiest of fucks is this? 😱

        • linearchaos@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          9 months ago

          Ancient voltmeter for children

    • Mwa@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      9 months ago

      i think it did

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @[email protected]
  • @[email protected]
  • @[email protected]
  • @[email protected]
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 3.81K users / day
  • 8.56K users / week
  • 17.6K users / month
  • 39K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 72.5K subscribers
  • 11.9K Posts
  • 286K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • Technopagan@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot@lemmy.world
  • L3s@hackingne.ws
  • L4s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.7
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org