• Instaload: A Microsoft innovation I can get behind

    John Biggs

    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Friday, July 2nd, 2010


    Picture this: you’re placing batteries into a device. You put them in wrong. Then you swap them so they’re right. How long did that take? If you said “too freaking long” then Microsoft has a technology for you.

    Instaload is a new technology “which allows users to easily install a battery without regard to positive and negative polarity.” Boom. Instant heaven.

    Duracell and some other companies are going to license the technology and when they do all heck will break loose. Put some money on Middle East Peace, babies, because this is serious.

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