Double A batteries are great. Until you leave a camera in a drawer for awhile and the batteries leak and make a mess. I was traveling and bought off-brand batteries at a gas station. The corrosion ...

What's that powdery, crystallized stuff inside your battery case? Classic battery corrosion. While it can be a frustrating and potentially dangerous matter to resolve, it isn't usually hard to clean ...

The Flip Camera (Fig. 1) was a small simple flash-memory camera with a flip-out USB connector that you could connect to your computer. This model is the Flip Video Ultra II that shoots two hours of SD ...

Have you ever gone to use a mouse, camera or remote control that's been sitting around for a while, only to find the batteries and their compartment covered in a white-ish crusty residue? That crust ...

While modern power systems in personal electronics and larger devices have been gradually moving toward rechargeable frameworks in the interest of sustainability, there's still a lot of disposable ...

Our lives as engineers get so caught up with “stuff” that sometimes it’s hard for us to keep track of it all. Fig. 1: Don’t fret about this yucky situation; you can rehab corroded contacts. Take the ...