 inGearX3.1415 9265
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New York | charge your devices with fruits »www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuiPDBA3···=related
and many alike videos »www.youtube.com/results?search_q···zOqAO2c4
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 SparkChaserPremium
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1 edit | Interesting application but not new.
I did that about 50+ years ago, sans the iPod 
I think Volta did it a couple of hundred years ago.
at least, the battery is environmentally friendly. You can eat it when you're done. |
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 DrStrangeTechnically feasiblePremium
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Ah. So, it's OK to mix apples and oranges, so long as they're wired in series with a banana between them.
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 JasonStowage Class TravelerPremium,Mod
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Re: charge your devices with fruits Oh geez, thats silly.
I too did the fruit battery back in gradeschool, for a science project.
As I recall, it took like 15 or 20 lemons to light a penlight bulb. Used copper and zinc strips as the anodes and cathodes.
Heh.. It was neither small, nor cheap.. Lemons are expensive if you don't have a tree in your backyard
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Nothing really new, maybe except the iPod. There used to be a web server about 10 years ago that ran on spud, for one.
In any case, what really matters are the metals, and you could use just about any suitable electrolyte, even a certain bodily fluid.... 
BTW, I wonder how many mA this setup can supply.
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Yep, nothing new here.
50 years ago, when I was a kid watching Mr. Wizard, he showed how to make a "battery" out of a galvanized bucket, a copper ashtray, and a quart can of sauerkraut.
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I'm surprised that nobody has yet asked (what to me seems) the obvious question. What costs more? The electricity (from a normal wall plug or your computer's USB port) to charge your IPod, or buying an apple, a tangerine, and a banana? |
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 SmokChsrWho let the magic smoke out?Premium
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Looks Like Burners USB problem in his post is solved!! Not only that he has extra snacks once it's all charged up.  |
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Because there's an obvious answer for that -- the fruits will cost a heck of a lot more. |
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| I'm sorry, but is this real, or is this some new level of Internet trolling I have not seen before?
I understand the concept of fruit powering low-load electronics, like a small LCD timer, etc - but charging an iPOD, really?
... only 2 of the 4 pins in a USB connector are for power/charging (normally 5VDC) the other 2 are for USB data, so am I to believe that just "shorting those out" in the banana is acceptable?
Serious side questions: If I use fruit to power whatever, does the fruit taste as good, and with the same amount of nutrients, if I have enough courage to eat it afterwards? or have all the good bits run out? is the part nearest the nail or wire any "better" for me to eat? |
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| Of course this is a spoof.
You cant just shove a USB connector into a banana (Even with special twist-tie wires connected to other fruits) and expect anything more than a violated banana, and a gooey USB connector. 
I saw a video once on how to clean your Hard Drive, by taking it apart and putting the main pieces in the Dishwasher.
Top rack only tho.. The lower rack is just too strong for most HDs..
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SparkChaserPremium
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kudos:3 | what you mean, the banana is the usb interface?
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| No.. You cant use a banana for a USB interface..
Anyone knows that..
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..You have to use A kiwi.
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said by aurgathor:In any case, what really matters are the metals, and you could use just about any suitable electrolyte, even a certain bodily fluid....
I just watched the video after reading the comments about the USB banana interface.... 
He's not using different metals and the USB interface is a little (?!) supect, to say the least.
"acidic power" -- yeah, right.
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you probably want to point out that this is just a joke.. you should NOT be eating the fruit after you have used it in circuit. the metals will react with electrolyte to form a metal salt which is not going to be good for you.. |
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Now I'm thinking of picking one of these up just for sh*ts and giggles
»www.amazon.com/PACIFIC-SCIENCE-S···ed+clock |
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| Digital clocks use so little energy -- I have an Oregon Scientific alarm clock/thermometer combo, and it ran on a single AAA battery for about 2 - 5 years. (at least 2, but maybe as much as 5) One day I might just take it to work and measure it with a 6 1/2 digit DMM. So very low power gadgets can indeed run on 'funny' sources, but you'd need quite a few of them to charge Li-ion batteries.
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