Flying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 7 hours agoTIL Nintendo coats all of their Switch cartridges with extremely bitter denatonium benzoate to deter children from putting them in their mouths and swallowing them.www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square24arrow-up1202arrow-down15
arrow-up1197arrow-down1external-linkTIL Nintendo coats all of their Switch cartridges with extremely bitter denatonium benzoate to deter children from putting them in their mouths and swallowing them.www.theguardian.comFlying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 7 hours agomessage-square24
minus-square@apfelwoiSchoppenlinkEnglish26•7 hours agoMany battery manufacturers do this with CR disc shaped batteries as well.
minus-square@subtextlinkEnglish10•5 hours agoInterestingly, this coating can cause issues for some products like the Apple AirTags. I know this because I used one of these batteries with a bitterest in the AirTag on my keys and the AirTag didn’t work.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 hours agoAnd what’s funny is that the solution is to lick the coating off either sides of the battery to get them to work.
Many battery manufacturers do this with CR disc shaped batteries as well.
Interestingly, this coating can cause issues for some products like the Apple AirTags. I know this because I used one of these batteries with a bitterest in the AirTag on my keys and the AirTag didn’t work.
And what’s funny is that the solution is to lick the coating off either sides of the battery to get them to work.