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    12/10/09

    In reply to Panasonic Buys Sanyo for Its Batteries
    Panasonic, PLEASE don't fuck up the Eneloops. Those things are teh awesome.
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    12/10/09

    In reply to Panasonic Buys Sanyo for Its Batteries
    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.
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    12/10/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I just wish more US retailers carried eneloops...
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    12/03/09

    In reply to De-Ice Your Hands With Sanyo's US-Bound Eneloop Kairos
    Just in case you're wondering, Kairo or 懐炉 means (pocket) body warmer in Japanese. Like the hot packs you buy and place in your mittens after a good cold day of skiing. :-)
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    12/03/09

    In reply to De-Ice Your Hands With Sanyo's US-Bound Eneloop Kairos
    Pfft. You can buy a hand warmer made by Zippo from Duluth Trading Company for $27.50 right now.
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    12/03/09

    @infmom: Damn. You just made me impulse buy 2. lol.
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    12/03/09

    @funkydude101: he almost got me too but its not small enough to fit into my boarding gloves hand warmer pocket
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    12/05/09

    @jp182: "He?"
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    12/05/09

    @infmom: sorry she
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    12/03/09

    In reply to De-Ice Your Hands With Sanyo's US-Bound Eneloop Kairos
    A lithium ion powered unit that heats itself up to the edges of comfortably hot... I wonder what class of protection circuitry it has, and what it would take to engage the battery in thermal runaway?
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    12/03/09

    In reply to De-Ice Your Hands With Sanyo's US-Bound Eneloop Kairos
    Great idea, but poor execution. one to four hours for $35-45? That doesn't even leave enough time for tailgating.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to De-Ice Your Hands With Sanyo's US-Bound Eneloop Kairos
    I could really use these today. I am reduced to typing with one hand, while I sit on the other to warm it. I even have a candle on my desk that I light to warm my hands over, just like Ebenezer Scrooge made Bob Cratchett do.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to De-Ice Your Hands With Sanyo's US-Bound Eneloop Kairos
    My pockets are free.

    (Actually, they're not. In retrospect, almost all of my coats are kinda spendy - all the more reason to maximize the value from them)
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    12/03/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Use other people's pockets. Then they're free -- up until the fines.
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    12/03/09

    @badhatharry: You could also make a life long friend this way.
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    12/03/09

    @trodrip: I'm betting more like a life long criminal record, but I like your optimism.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to De-Ice Your Hands With Sanyo's US-Bound Eneloop Kairos
    Eneloop Kairo is actually Japanese. Eneloop mean 'energy loop'. Sanyo has a line of rechargable batteries under the Eneloop brand. This hand warmer utilizes these batteries. Kairo means 'pocket warmers' from the initial Japanese word Hakukin-Kairo meaning pocket warmers but it has since been shortened to only Kairo. So Eneloop means 'energy loop pocket warmers'
    Class dismissed.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to De-Ice Your Hands With Sanyo's US-Bound Eneloop Kairos
    Build a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to De-Ice Your Hands With Sanyo's US-Bound Eneloop Kairos
    Eneloop is Sanyo's line of rechargeable battery (which is AWESOME, btw). The word Eneloop clearly means "energy-loop". I'm guessing the same battery / battery technology is used in this Kairo thing?
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    PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: promoted this comment Bob Lu was starred Bob Lu was unstarred
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    12/03/09

    @Bob Lu: I have the rechargeable battery set that they were selling at Costco which also came with adapters to turn AA batteries into all kinds of other batteries. Pretty good stuff.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to De-Ice Your Hands With Sanyo's US-Bound Eneloop Kairos
    ...or you could wear gloves or keep your hands in your pockets.
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    12/03/09

    @Slyd3z: I have no body heat in my hands, so even the thickest gloves just delay them freezing. In the winter, I don't have heated pockets to put them in either - though if I took my gloves off to warm my hands in my coat pockets, I'd get frostbite on my wrists anyway when it's -35C outside.

    Actually I think this would be great for meeting someone when you know you'll have to shake their hand - I basically have to anticipate it and sit with my hand inconspicuously under the back of my knee until it gets warm enough that people won't think I'm undead when they feel it...
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    12/03/09

    @fuchikoma: I suppose your case would be an exception. I'm certain there are other commercially available hand-warmers available, for such purposes.

    I guess the gist of my commentary jab was that this particular product seems gimmicky, rather than practical. By the way, where are you that it gets that cold regularly?
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    12/03/09

    @Slyd3z: I think it's kinda gimmicky, but I don't know anything quite like it apart from fueled mitten heaters and chemical heat pads... I'd get one for $25 without thinking about it.

    I'm in Western Canada... there are usually a few days to a week that cold every winter. -20 to -25 is normal, -28 is an ordinary "cold" day in december/january.

    ...below -30, the air stings exposed skin, and you can run across smooth ice on skates and not even slide, because you no longer get a thin liquid layer when you put weight on the ice.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Crunching numbers on this green house, I reckon $60k plus a generous $10k maintenance allowance for the power system over the years it takes to recoup the losses.

    Taking a true-cost approach, I'll ignore subsidies, though that certainly cuts the time in half for early buyers.

    Pulling $180 per month out of my butt as an estimate for conventional power, I come up with about 32 years to pay off the difference. Which... is actually pretty good aside from the pile of Li-ion and silicon waste left at end-of-life.
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    11/20/09

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    Wow...I spent 5 minutes thinking what the connection between Chris Liddell and Bill Gates was, until I realized that it was just the angle of the camera.
    *facepalm*
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    11/20/09

    @paravorheim: Ha, so did I. I saw the picture and thought, "hmmm, must be an inside joke or something" and let it go until I read your comment.
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    The new Genius Bar system allows you to make reservations further in advance than the old one, which was limited to just a few days. #gizmodoremainders
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