Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-square79fedilinkarrow-up1452arrow-down112
arrow-up1440arrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-squareapfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·2 months agoMany battery manufacturers do this with CR disc shaped batteries as well.
minus-squaresubtext@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months 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.
Many battery manufacturers do this with CR disc shaped batteries as well.
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.