Flying Squid to Today I LearnedEnglish • 4 months 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-square81arrow-up1472arrow-down112
arrow-up1460arrow-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 • 4 months agomessage-square81
minus-square@apfelwoiSchoppenlinkEnglish41•4 months agoMany battery manufacturers do this with CR disc shaped batteries as well.
minus-square@subtextlinkEnglish21•4 months 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]linkfedilinkEnglish13•4 months agoAnd what’s funny is that the solution is to lick the coating off either sides of the battery to get them to work.
minus-square@captainlezbianlinkEnglish7•4 months agoI have to assume there’s a common non tongue applied solvent that works
minus-squareGreatAlbatrosslinkfedilinkEnglish3•4 months agoPeople apparently rub them with IPA. I need to have a try of this, as I regularly burn through 2032s.
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.
I have to assume there’s a common non tongue applied solvent that works
People apparently rub them with IPA.
I need to have a try of this, as I regularly burn through 2032s.