Hardware Hackers Reveal Apple's Charger Secrets

ptorrone writes "In this 7-minute video we explore the mysteries of Apple device charging. Usually, device makers need to sign a confidentially agreement with Apple if they want to say their charger 'works with iPhone / iPod,' and they're not allowed to talk about how the insides work. If you don't put these secret resistors on the data lines too, you get the dreaded Charging is not supported with this accessory. We demonstrate how anyone can make their own chargers that work with iPhone 4, 3Gs, etc."

Resistance is Futile

[Maarx]

Resistance is Futile

Good Lord!

[RenHoek]

Is it wrong for me to get a bit hot under the collar, seeing a geek girl with such an impressive electronics workdesk?

Re:Resistance is Futile

[KarrdeSW]

Ohm, I see what you did there.

Re:Good Lord!

[couchslug]

"She's certainly well-geeky, but 'hot' she's not ;-)"

Nonsense! She has all the characteristics of hotness:

Airway.
Breathing.
Circulation.

Re:Good Lord!

[Spazntwich]

Want to cry into your underwear with nerdlust?

Read an article from http://badphysics.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com], spend a few futile minutes googling for more pictures and trying to internally reconcile her ravishing looks with such effortless eloquence and boundless intelligence, and then fall even deeper into self-loathing despair with the realization that even your hypothetical best version of yourself wouldn't be good enough for her.

Or, you know, don't. But you get my point. Hopefully, because I don't.

Re:Good Lord!

[Bearhouse]

lol...reminds me of that old joke:

Guy @ bar #1: "I'm into flagellation, necrophilia & bestiality"

Guy @ bar #2: "Sounds like you're flogging a dead horse..."

Re:Good Lord!

[localman57]

Yep. But does she run Linux?

Re:Resistance is Futile

[commodore64_love]

"Boring film... losing... consciousness." ----- (That's a tick reference for our younger viewers.)

Re:Resistance is Futile

[poetmatt]

shocking.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[GreyWolf3000]

Can someone please explain watt the hell they're talking about?

Re:Resistance is Futile

[AnonymousClown]

Ohm, I see what you did there.

These comments! There should be a Law.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[TheJokeExplainer]

I didn't quite get it. Can you explain it Fermi?

Re:Resistance is Futile

[JavaBear]

Are you sure you have the capacity to induce jokes like that here?

Re:Resistance is Futile

[operagost]

It's VIRtually impossible to get these jokes unless you read the article.

Re:Good Lord!

[Spazntwich]

I'm still trying to figure out if you're talking about catching her on a day with low self-esteem... or rape.

Re:Good Lord!

[elrous0]

There is something off about that girl. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I think she may be a mandroid.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[commodore64_love]

I think I just thought of a great new website:

"Girls of Electronica" Dot. Com. Watch the ladies as they solder and desolder iPhones and other high-tech gadgets, while also being topless. See voltmeters probing things they were never meant to probe! Or vibrating air guns used in creative new fashion! Only $5 a month.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[ArbitraryDescriptor]

The current direction of this discussion has the potential to give me a pun-migraine.

electron! Whew.

Re:Good Lord!

[commodore64_love]

Airway.
Breathing.
Circulation.
Dick? (checks) Nope. Houston we're ready for liftoff.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[nacturation]

Can someone please explain watt the hell they're talking about?

I don't think you'd have the capacity to understand.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[interkin3tic]

At least it was a current story.

Re:Stupid chargers

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps Steve's RDF interferes with how they operate?

Re:Resistance is Futile

[ArbitraryDescriptor]

Wye would you do that when I had just rectified the situation?? On a side note, I am trying to phase caffeine out of my daily routine.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[sconeu]

Yes, Resistance is futile, but the voltage, on the other hand, has potential.

Re:Good Lord!

[IAmGarethAdams]

Yes, but will she blend?

Re:Resistance is Futile

[Bill_the_Engineer]

I think we need to transform this conversation into something else.

Re:Good Lord!

[Lev13than]

Airway.
Breathing.
Circulation.
Dick? (checks) Nope. Houston we're ready for liftoff.
Erection? (checks self) Nope. Houston, we have a problem.

Re:Good Lord!

[Anonymous Coward]

Has it ever occurred to you that Sarah may actually find your comment? That there is a person behind that picture? That Sarah may not, in fact, be writing to entertain your "nerdlust," but because she has an interest in, say, science?

Nobody is denying that she's a real, honest to goodness girl-type person with a strong interest in science and a keen intellect.

I'm sure she isn't interested in our combined "nerdlust" -- any more than she's interested in all of the non-nerds that ogle her and want to hump her leg. She can't be that good looking and still be surprised men lose their train of thought when she enters a room.

That doesn't change the fact that tonight she'll be a fantasy for a significant amount of geeks.

Me, I'd motorboat her and anything else she's let me do to her. We're talking hot grits kinda stuff here!! :-P

Re:Resistance is Futile

[easterberry]

wire you so insistent of ending our fun? Do you find puns re-volt-ing or something?

Re:Resistance is Futile

[shadowrat]

Ohm my god! these puns are ridiculous!

Re:Good Lord!

[CharlyFoxtrot]

You can upgrade to the latest model every few years. As long as you can afford it.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[easterberry]

Those claims are groundless! I may have to charge you with libel.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think you have the capacitor to understand, either.

Re:Good Lord!

[Mex]

I don't want to marry the "hot" girl, I just wanna boink her. So in the short term I dont care if she has the IQ of a toaster, sir.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[Kozz]

I think I just thought of a great new website:

"Girls of Electronica" Dot. Com. Watch the ladies as they solder and desolder iPhones and other high-tech gadgets, while also being topless. See voltmeters probing things they were never meant to probe! Or vibrating air guns used in creative new fashion! Only $5 a month.

Try explaining to the wife, "Honey, I just read it for the circuit diagrams."

Re:Good Lord!

[Snarkalicious]

Since when did jerking off in the bushes outside someone's bedroom window count as rape? Jesus, guys...it's not as if I'm sort of sicko.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[skotay]

"Boring film... losing... consciousness." ----- (That's a tick reference for our younger viewers.)

It lost the funny when you included an explanation.

But what was not included was if the the reference was directed to our younger viewers explaining the quote as being from The Tick who might be too young to have yet learned about our large blue hero with funny antenna on the top of his head or whether it was to let everyone know that the poster was thinking of the children... You insensitive clod.

Re:Stupid chargers

[LynnwoodRooster]

This cannot be! Apple is about supplying the best customer experience, about rolling out magical devices to the masses to free them from the bondage and slavery of technology as imposed by those proprietary, secretive for-profit companies!

Re:Resistance is Futile

[XSpud]

These comments! There should be a Law.

Yes, a law administered by circuit judges.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[JohnBailey]

Yes, a law administered by circuit judges.

Ohm's law?