battery

From the submitter:

"Battery clamp was overstretched and we needed to go: nailed it!"

This one can almost go a whole day without recharging!

~Not-So-Handy Andy

If you run out of button batteries for your stereo remote, just replace it with a AA, some tape and some spare wires.

I think the biggest downside of the advances in cell phone technology is the loss of Snake, possibly the greatest time-wasting game in history. We don't want to play a crappy interactive version of the latest Michael Bay movie. We want Snake back. And nothing more.

~NSHA

From the submitter:

"My laptop charger only works if it's bent in a gentle curve. So I bent some Q-tips and taped them on for support. Works like new."

From the kludger:

While half way trimming my hair the built-in battery got drained. I had a meeting in 1 hour and charging would had taken 3 - 4 hours. I decided to open it up only to find a NiMH AAA battery soldered on. I ripped it out, pulled the wires to the exterior. Wired up a standard AAA battery while keeping it in good contact with two of my fingers, while finishing up the job. Worked like a charm. Not a pretty sight through.

Now it has a 36 hour battery!

Youtuber Spiritplumber devised a cheap and relatively-simple way to extend your cell phone's battery life. Recording video on smart phones is notorious for draining your juice and he claims this workaround can last a few hours with just a couple of bucks. Or you can go the less ugly but more expensive route and just pick up one of these guys.

http://www.amazon.com/Duracell-Instant-Charger-Lithium-universal/dp/B002FU6KF2/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1320097675&sr=8-1

And sometimes, where there's a will, there's also about 50 different safety hazards.