• Lutra@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Asinine headline. “Gouach solves the One awful thing about rechargable battery packs” … thats also true. "4 million battery packs are thrown away a year, when all they needed was to replace the one or two bad cells. Startup (?) Gouach cracks the probelm!

    I never heard of Gouach, but that headline is the worst spin on what is good news. “Drill company black and decker wants you to insert and pluck Drill bits from their Infinite Drill”

  • besselj
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    3 days ago

    It sounds promising, but also a legal nightmare if they expect users to be competent enough to read instructions and replace batteries without causing burns or fires.

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      2 days ago

      You realize that 18650 cells are just … batteries. Like we’ve been having people change in small electronics for decades.

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        2 days ago

        You underestimate how dumb the average user can be