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A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years (www.techradar.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years::A glowing horizon for phones

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[–] _sideffect 18 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Some of the people here don't realize that our smoke detectors have radioactive elements inside it

[–] Aganim 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Depends, in my country ionization detectors have been banned over 20 years ago, you'll mostly find optical / photoelectric detectors here.

[–] _sideffect 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if its because of a valid reason, or just a precaution

[–] Noedel 4 points 10 months ago

It's probably safe until someone decides to go look what's inside their smoke detector

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