{"id":198,"date":"2004-09-23T11:57:41","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T11:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=198"},"modified":"2004-09-23T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T11:57:41","slug":"a_bright_idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"A bright idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energizer has just unveiled an omnivorous flashlight: one that can use multiple types of batteries. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6011489\">AP article<\/a> reports that &#8220;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energizer.com\/products\/flashlights\/flashlight.asp?cat=1\">Quick Switch<\/a> takes two C, D or AA batteries and works by merely adjusting a switch to the proper cell size, automatically locking the batteries into place.&#8221; If you ask me, the ultimate flashlight is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appliedinnotech.com\/\">NightStar<\/a>, which requires no batteries at all &#8212; but the NightStar is expensive ($39.95). The Quick Switch sells for $9.99 to $12.99, so it&#8217;s much more affordable.<br \/>\nI think I will buy one just so that I can finally use up my C batteries, which are currently gathering dust. Almost nothing uses C batteries anymore. (I don&#8217;t recall what device I originally bought my Cs for &#8212; but it must have died shortly after that, leaving me with a stockpile of batteries that I can&#8217;t use.) But the biggest advantage of the Quick Switch may be that, in a pinch, you can raid almost <em>any<\/em> gadget in your house for batteries to power your flashlight. That ability could be a godsend during a power outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energizer has just unveiled an omnivorous flashlight: one that can use multiple types of batteries. An AP article reports that &#8220;the Quick Switch takes two C, D or AA batteries and works by merely adjusting a switch to the proper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=198\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}