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USB Rechargable Batteries
The average design studio doesn’t use many batteries, or so I thought until yesterday. One of our wireless Apple keyboards stopped working because its 4 AA batteries have run out. Apple say they are supposed to last for 9 months, we’ve got about 10 wireless keyboards in the studio, so that’s 60 AA batteries a year that we need. Wow.
As everyone knows, batteries are full of polluting heavy metals and we should all be using rechargeables, but recharging batteries is a right pain – you’ve got to find where the last person put the recharger for a start. But these USB Cell batteries are a joy to use – stick them in a USB slot and the LED will go out when they’re recharged. And you can re-use them hundreds of times, saving loads of money in the long run.
Maybe next time Apple redesign the keyboard they can build in a rechargable battery pack that plugs into the USB port to recharge?