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Whilst putting my phone, watch, tablet and powerbank on charge yesterday evening, I glanced outside at my car, still charging, having been slowly pulling 8A for ~14 hours.
Between 150 and 20 years ago, there was some amazing future-looking fiction written, accurately predicting all sorts of stuff; handheld computers, smart watches, the Internet, satellites, electric cars even.
But I never read anything about how much of our lives would revolve around charging batteries in almost every device.
@bloor Or, for that matter, the different kinds of wall-warts that goes along with charging devices.
@danieldurrans @bloor that is starting to get easier. I’m sat in Costa and there are usb-c sockets. In McDonald’s next door the tables have inductive chargers.
@revk @danieldurrans @bloor Have several pocket batteries because I’d never plug in to a public USB port w/o the data lines cut, a $6.50 USB Condom.
Had an original one for years.
@revk @danieldurrans @bloor I wonder what (if any) part of the pd spec these sockets implement.
Took me ages to find a double socket with usb-c that actually could deliver a decent amount of juice. So many stick to the baseline 500mA@5V which is a bit lazy/antiquated.
@revk@toot.me.uk @danieldurrans@mastodon.me.uk @bloor@bloor.tw are there situations where people with pacemakers are affected by induction
@revk now you need a usb comdom
@Dragon have there really been cases of a iPhone falling for that ever?
@revk I’d rather not find out.
It’s when it pops up trust this accessory you have to worry about
@Dragon well quite, and you say no.