We have become numb to the ball and chain of power cords on electronic devices. Power cords are a constant annoyance—anyone who visits the college coffee shop has seen the spaghetti of students, power cords, and laptops trying to plug in and charge up. If not the inconvenience of the power cord, then there are batteries that fail somewhere inside… right? Unfortunately, battery problems are seen as inevitable due to their rather colorful history of leakage, explosions, and catching on fire over the years...
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