A glowing horizon for phones

A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years::A glowing horizon for phones

  • JustinAEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    Probably the same as with tritium lumes. Only dangerous if you swallow the unshielded nickel.

      • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
        212·
        10 months ago

        I mean so is drinking a gallon of bleach. Fortunately, there’s a pretty simple preventative measure for both:

        Don’t do it?

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
        132·
        10 months ago

        What gave you the idea that swallowing a small amount of mildly radioactive material is fatal?

        • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
          143·
          10 months ago

          Man, I figured the joke was obvious but I guess not.

          “tiny amount of radioactive material whose radiation stopped by thin plastics is a literal death sentence” is, I thought, pretty clear hyperbole.

          • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
            10·
            10 months ago

            A lot of people are really irrationally afraid of anything involving radiation. I mistook you for one of them.

            • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
              3·
              10 months ago

              No worries. Glow it up, let’s get some extreme energy density up in this bitch. I went for nuke in the old days where I enlisted in the military.

              I have a healthy respect for radiation. That’s why I leave handling the good stuff to the professionals.

              I’ve actually got some small isotope samples in a lockbox from an old highschool demonstration lab for Geiger counters. No Geiger counter though yet. I haven’t even opened it since I got it to check the contents were intact.

              • JustinAEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                pen-sized-ish Geiger counters/scintillating meters are pretty cheap these days.