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A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years (www.techradar.com)
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A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years::A glowing horizon for phones

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

My grampa had a pacemaker that was.

Edit: Source - https://osrp.lanl.gov/pacemakers.shtml

Edit2: For the smoke detectors, i know its not what powers it per se, as far as the electronics that sound the alarm and such. More pointing out it contains radioactive material, and is something in every (hopefully) house, and you likely walk by it often.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That is well cool

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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