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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I stepped on my scales this morning and they displayed the word Lo. Feeling chuffed for a few seconds I then got real and went in search of a 9 volt battery to replace the low one inside the scales.
Of course every size in the man drawer, but that one.
Aren't batteries a bit dated? I have watched countless in the future programmes and on Thunderbirds they plug a power cell into a solar panel and hey presto new charge.
Why havent we got something better than batteries by now? Or is that as far as tht particular science is going for small electrics?
Thoughts on the back of stamped addressed Raymond Baxter please. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Me head hurts thinking of a suitable answer.... "
Whats better than an aspirin? Why don't we have a cupboard full of hunky head massagers in this day and age? In Joe 90 they said by 2011........ |
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"Me head hurts thinking of a suitable answer....
Whats better than an aspirin? Why don't we have a cupboard full of hunky head massagers in this day and age? In Joe 90 they said by 2011........"
Aspirins give me a headache, but in Star Trek.......... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My new toy 10 times better than a battery"
Rolf? Rolf? Rolf? I feel like the little boy in Mary Poppins who cant get his fingers to snap.
Huge grins here.
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"My new toy 10 times better than a battery
Rolf? Rolf? Rolf? I feel like the little boy in Mary Poppins who cant get his fingers to snap.
Huge grins here.
Im wetting myself here 
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"there is always clockwork, just wind it up and off it goes, batteries not required  "
Well yes Trevor Baylis (my hero) clockwork radio was fab but again thats a new spin on old technology I want something 21st century!!! |
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"there is always clockwork, just wind it up and off it goes, batteries not required
Well yes Trevor Baylis (my hero) clockwork radio was fab but again thats a new spin on old technology I want something 21st century!!!"
Where's Brains when you need him |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"there is always clockwork, just wind it up and off it goes, batteries not required
Well yes Trevor Baylis (my hero) clockwork radio was fab but again thats a new spin on old technology I want something 21st century!!!
Where's Brains when you need him "
Well at the risk of being named nerd of the year Brains of Thunderbirds isn't actually born yet. He won't be here until 14th November 2040.
Ok mock me all you like roll on August 15th 2041 when Vrigil Tracy gets here and after he completes a his course at the Denver School of Advanced Technology he will be mine all mine. Unless he's not within my age range and a timewaster.......... |
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"there is always clockwork, just wind it up and off it goes, batteries not required
Well yes Trevor Baylis (my hero) clockwork radio was fab but again thats a new spin on old technology I want something 21st century!!!
Where's Brains when you need him
Well at the risk of being named nerd of the year Brains of Thunderbirds isn't actually born yet. He won't be here until 14th November 2040.
Ok mock me all you like roll on August 15th 2041 when Vrigil Tracy gets here and after he completes a his course at the Denver School of Advanced Technology he will be mine all mine. Unless he's not within my age range and a timewaster.........."
I'm waiting till March 12th 2044 |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I stepped on my scales this morning and they displayed the word Lo. Feeling chuffed for a few seconds I then got real and went in search of a 9 volt battery to replace the low one inside the scales.
Of course every size in the man drawer, but that one.
Aren't batteries a bit dated? I have watched countless in the future programmes and on Thunderbirds they plug a power cell into a solar panel and hey presto new charge.
Why havent we got something better than batteries by now? Or is that as far as tht particular science is going for small electrics?
Thoughts on the back of stamped addressed Raymond Baxter please."
you may be missing summat here  what if your scales is actually trying to talk to you?
As in ello |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I stepped on my scales this morning and they displayed the word Lo. Feeling chuffed for a few seconds I then got real and went in search of a 9 volt battery to replace the low one inside the scales.
Of course every size in the man drawer, but that one.
Aren't batteries a bit dated? I have watched countless in the future programmes and on Thunderbirds they plug a power cell into a solar panel and hey presto new charge.
Why havent we got something better than batteries by now? Or is that as far as tht particular science is going for small electrics?
Thoughts on the back of stamped addressed Raymond Baxter please.
you may be missing summat here what if your scales is actually trying to talk to you?
As in ello"
You have a fine point and a correct one. In fact as soon as I replaced the battery the scales started talking dirty to me. In filthy, vile horrible untrue numbers!!!!!!!!
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Dual power as in solar and battery...
Alas need around 100cm by 30cm panel for 20W on a bright summer day, and may only get 1W from that in winter, and of course need to be outside to use.
Now the new solar windows, used as a sunroof on car to supplement the car battery, i.e. reduce load from car stereo. Or charge a hydrids battery when parked on drive is an option.
Generally better and cheaper to be more energy efficient, e.g. when I moved into house replaced pond pump that ran at 60W with an 8W one, that is now also powered from solar panels (off grid - for when society collapses ) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Dual power as in solar and battery..."
I had (still have!) a school calculator that boasted of its dual power functionality.
It proudly boasted in the manual how the solar-powered calculator would continue to work without light because it had an on-board battery as a backup.
The manual failed to explain how I was meant to see the calculator screen in the dark! |
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Maybe one day we will be able to utilise power from the human body to power devices, and not in the old school pedal to power the lights.
Micro generators can already power watches, i.e. movement charges a capacitor to cope with those periods of inactivity. |
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"Maybe one day we will be able to utilise power from the human body to power devices, and not in the old school pedal to power the lights.
Micro generators can already power watches, i.e. movement charges a capacitor to cope with those periods of inactivity."
Have you seen 'The Matrix'?  |
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By *icboyMan
over a year ago
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We are all waiting for nano-technology to bring the promised benefits, in all aspects of human life from powercells which can fit on the point of a needle to injections of drugs carried to the source by nanobots...signing off Raymond Baxter...for my cryo-chamber. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"We are all waiting for nano-technology to bring the promised benefits, in all aspects of human life from powercells which can fit on the point of a needle to injections of drugs carried to the source by nanobots...signing off Raymond Baxter...for my cryo-chamber. "
Have you seen The Incredible Voyage? Or its modern counterpart Innerspace?
I believe that can happen. But the thought of some little man inside of me is pretty gruesome |
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By *icboyMan
over a year ago
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"We are all waiting for nano-technology to bring the promised benefits, in all aspects of human life from powercells which can fit on the point of a needle to injections of drugs carried to the source by nanobots...signing off Raymond Baxter...for my cryo-chamber.
Have you seen The Incredible Voyage? Or its modern counterpart Innerspace?
I believe that can happen. But the thought of some little man inside of me is pretty gruesome "
Is that the one with Rachel Welsh in a red rubber suit...lol...xxx |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"We are all waiting for nano-technology to bring the promised benefits, in all aspects of human life from powercells which can fit on the point of a needle to injections of drugs carried to the source by nanobots...signing off Raymond Baxter...for my cryo-chamber.
Have you seen The Incredible Voyage? Or its modern counterpart Innerspace?
I believe that can happen. But the thought of some little man inside of me is pretty gruesome
Is that the one with Rachel Welsh in a red rubber suit...lol...xxx"
It is and Donald Pleasance is the baddie and gets eaten slowly by a white blood cell. I read that the gunge they used was cold porridge! No expense spared for the special effects. |
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