A glowing horizon for phones

A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years::A glowing horizon for phones

    • @SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
      19•1 year ago

      I mean so is drinking a gallon of bleach. Fortunately, there’s a pretty simple preventative measure for both:

      Don’t do it?

      • Transporter Room 3English
        11•1 year ago

        Man, I figured the joke was obvious but I guess not.

        “tiny amount of radioactive material whose radiation stopped by thin plastics is a literal death sentence” is, I thought, pretty clear hyperbole.

        • @lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
          10•1 year ago

          A lot of people are really irrationally afraid of anything involving radiation. I mistook you for one of them.

          • Transporter Room 3English
            3•1 year ago

            No worries. Glow it up, let’s get some extreme energy density up in this bitch. I went for nuke in the old days where I enlisted in the military.

            I have a healthy respect for radiation. That’s why I leave handling the good stuff to the professionals.

            I’ve actually got some small isotope samples in a lockbox from an old highschool demonstration lab for Geiger counters. No Geiger counter though yet. I haven’t even opened it since I got it to check the contents were intact.

            • JustinEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              pen-sized-ish Geiger counters/scintillating meters are pretty cheap these days.