by Nick Eaton, Seattle PI
Microsoft will be incorporating InstaLoad into its own hardware, but none is in production yet, the spokesperson said. The Redmond company also is offering royalty-free licensing to businesses that make accessibility devices for people with hearing, vision or learning disabilities. So, how does it work? Simply by the physics of the battery itself. InstaLoad takes advantage of the fact that a battery’s positive-polarity node sticks out. When the positive end of a battery is inserted into the InstaLoad port, the battery touches the positive contact but doesn’t reach the negative contacts. And when the negative end is inserted, the metal doesn’t reach InstaLoad’s indented positive contact.
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