A glowing horizon for phones

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

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    10 months ago

    Remember when folks wore watches with radioactive paint on them? Good times.

      • yuriy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, unfortunately most of the danger fell on the (usually female) factory workers who painted the radium on. Fun fact, we do absolutely still use radioactive shit to make watches glow today, it’s just much less dangerous and sealed in tiny vials. Also it’s a gas that won’t eventually flake and turn into super fine particulate, like the radium paints of yore.

    • grayman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      It was more a problem of licking the little brushes than wearing the teeny bit on the wrist.