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@RainyDayInterns: I like how no matter what the situation is, people with money MUST be "overpaid, insecure idiots". You have to love the cheap ass jealous fools over at Jalopnik.
@RainyDayInterns: haha. Of course. Its still really irritating to see articles like this. People get so damn jealous over anything concerning money. What does the editor that wrote that on Jalopnik really care whether I own a Porsche or not. If he's pissed about his Mini Van, then go get a new job and buy a Porsche instead of writing on a blog post about what a little bitch he is.
@imTheKing: No, people with money don't have to be overpaid, insecure idiots. Just people who conspicuously spend it for no other reason than to impress others. You know, folks who buy gold-plated PS3s, or folks who buy race-tuned Porsches with $1700 starter batteries to drive to the market.
IIRC from an episode of Top Gear, Porsche charges you more when they deduct weight from/remove things from one of their products. Jeremy Clarkson pondered if one day someone will be walking past a Porsche dealership, and they charge him half a million pounds.
@GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga: That's the exact reason I broke into a run when I passed the Porsche Dealership down the street from the Jacob Javitz Center. I saw that CGT sitting in the window, and I knew I had little time.
Uh. Great. Now how about telling us what the hell this thing does compared to a normal battery, in other words, the POINT of this post, other then artificially generating traffic for your sister site?
The only problem with liquefying yourself is that you can't turn calcium phosphate into a diamond. Yeah, yeah, we all know that cremation is bad for the environment, but I want my progeny to wear my remains. Think of it, a ring passed down through the ages, so you can wear grandma, grandpa, mom, dad, sibling, your children, the list grows ever longer. What's not to love about that macabre thought?
I'm sorry, I know this is only mildly on topic but....where in the world-is-Carmen-Sandiego did 2009 go?! It feels way too early for all these dang best-ofs, and 2009-highlights and year-in-reviews.
Entertainment Weekly recently had a best-of the decade. As well as a best-of of all the deaths this year. I mean, I know December's the last month and there's a lot to get through but....
....jeez, 2009. You're a sneaky little ninja punk, aren't you? Zipping by without a sound.
The only Sanyo batteries I've owned are Eneloops and they've been pretty sweet. They came with a kit of adapters that can turn AA's into other size batteries.
@aidemthgink: That sounds like it's probably a good idea. However there will still most likely be an issue with waste products being produced by the battery itself. #bloodbatteries
Where's the Carl Sagan autotune now? Come one, we all know that anaerobic glycolysis would fill a thousand 500-page volumes via "Cosmos". Now I want to hear the autotune version, please. #bloodbatteries
Okay, commenting specifically on the Usa subset: We currently run our bodies with an enormous glucose energy excess, caused by changing the balance of our diet a few millenia ago towards large amounts of refined grains. This creates, among many other things, the obesity and diabetes "pandemic."
Installing bio-batteries that use this glucose isn't a bad idea. We already put excess energy into our systems, so we wouldn't have to adopt new diets to fuel them. Other problems could be caused, however, if their use of glucose doesn't fit into the body's normal response curves - we could also introduce a whole new set of diet-related issues. #bloodbatteries
@Gann: Personally I'd install the version that can convert excess battery energy to ketones instead (or give me a choice of conversions), but either way I like the idea. And you're right about the difference between biorhythms and society's rhythms - programmed correctly, this could do double duty and plug some of the gap. #bloodbatteries
@Gann: At which point it occurs to me that we're talking about becoming The Culture from Iain M. Banks' novels, at least biologically. But yes - if we figure out how to synthesize a molecule on that level using in-body material, I doubt the process will be molecule-specific. Aside from getting high, we can have on-demand self-produced doses of vaccine or antibiotic or caffeine or vasopressin or melatonin or god this is going to be awesome. #bloodbatteries
@FriarNurgle: Haha, I'm imagining some kind of inductive power transfer system. I think there's already too many plugs for the human body, but maybe I'm a prude? #bloodbatteries
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It is when everything has been put together that justifies the cost.
OK, maybe "justify in one's mind and to our significant other" maybe a better term.
In any case, we own both...and it makes us happy when we wait to buy Ramen noodles on sale:-)
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Entertainment Weekly recently had a best-of the decade. As well as a best-of of all the deaths this year. I mean, I know December's the last month and there's a lot to get through but....
....jeez, 2009. You're a sneaky little ninja punk, aren't you? Zipping by without a sound.
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Hopefully we won't have to deal with those 2-cent stamps for devices that need just a bit more power.
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Alas, I am not a chemist and I can only look at the picture and say "ooh"
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Lactic acid is a byproduct of muscle tissue and some bacteria, i.e. Shewanella, can convert it into electricity. Just a thought.
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Installing bio-batteries that use this glucose isn't a bad idea. We already put excess energy into our systems, so we wouldn't have to adopt new diets to fuel them. Other problems could be caused, however, if their use of glucose doesn't fit into the body's normal response curves - we could also introduce a whole new set of diet-related issues. #bloodbatteries
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Conversely, if the device were able to convert energy back into blood sugar it might be a viable alternative to coffee in the morning. #bloodbatteries
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Your're gonna want a little lube to plug this in. #bloodbatteries
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@Curves: #bloodbatteries
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