Byrnesys Blabberings

Don’t you hate it when your iPod says the battery is too low even when you know it should have a good bit more juice in it? I have had that problem for the last year or so, I jump into my car, pull away and then try and turn on the tunes only to discover that my iPod needs to be plugged in! This often leads to the somewhat dangerous scenario of trying to hook up my laptop and navigate iTunes whilst driving! (I know that is ridiculous)

The main reason for this is the cold, it makes sense that colder the battery the less charge it will have, I understand this physics of this in my head but I haven’t done physics out loud for so long that I am not going to try and explain this one, you’ll just have to trust me or copy a chapter of a physics text book in the comments.

My lifehack for this is taking the iPod and putting it, front facing in my shirt (or trousers would work) pocket, this heats up the back aluminium side of the iPod (where the battery is positioned) and voila you have at least a couple of minuites, or in many cases your Full iPod battery charge back!

If you are serious about wanting to paste that physics chapter in the comments you could do worse than a FREE Physics book that Cool Tools just featured, Motion Mountain (basically a PDF document) which has an interesting approach to physics:

 This is not your father’s physics textbook. It is the self-published 1,500-page (!!), still-unfinished physics textbook written and designed by your polymath genius uncle who dwells on a mountain with the spirits of departed philosophers (whom he quotes, in German). It’s what a physics textbook would be like if a poet wrote it and made no mistakes. The book is massively visual. There is minimal math. It’s a textbook with soul.