How no one invented it before??? http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/licensing/instaloadoverview.mspx REDMOND, Wash. July 1, 2010 Microsoft Corp. today announced a new technology aimed at improving the battery installation process called InstaLoad battery installation technology, which allows users to easily install a battery without regard to positive and negative polarity. Never again will people have to squint to see battery installation diagrams — the device simply works regardless if the battery is installed positive-side-up or positive-side-down. InstaLoad is a patented battery contact design now available for license by third-party device suppliers, with companies like Duracell already lining up to endorse the technology for use in their own products.
yeah, crazy. we can put people on the moon but we can't load batteries without regard to polarity. lol
duh... Now this is the KISS principle at its best. Hard to believe nobody's thought of that before. graciano1337: AFAIK, we also know more about the surface of the moon than about the bottom of our seas. Sometime science's priorities seem really messed up.
Do people really have that much trouble inserting batteries the right way round that a redesign is needed? Probably the same people who go out with their shoes on the wrong feet.
impressive, but I would much prefer a batteries that last REALLLLYYY LONNNGGG. But alas, companies would be out of business.
Working with digital printing, you would be surprised how many people jam batteries/memory cards in the wrong way. I saw one person who had bent their SD in half by forcing it into the camera. Someone else sliced their xD card to try and get it in an SD slot.
