Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours 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-square43fedilinkarrow-up1292arrow-down16
arrow-up1286arrow-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@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squaresubtext@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·10 hours 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-squareStache_@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 hours agoAnd what’s funny is that the solution is to lick the coating off either sides of the battery to get them to work.
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.