On Vox: Random electromagnetic interference
On Thursday, when I walked home from work, both my phone and mp3 player mysteriously died. Since then I have not been able to charge them back to 'full', instead only getting about half a charge to register, maybe less. Neither one will last for more than half of the battery time that they had before Thursday. I use a lot of rechargeable batteries in my accessory kit. Both my MP3 player (Sansa Stark) and my phone (Maya) are almost always on, though my digital camera (Delilah) is usually off, and these days to reduce my carrying weight I rarely take my iBook (Celia), with me unless I know I am going to use her. The digital camera batteries seem to have been unaffected by whatever happened to me on Thursday. Sansa Stark is only 4 months old, and Maya is either 8 or 10 months old. Neither one should be showing symptoms of battery degradation at this early stage, because I am careful with how they are charged.
I wonder if there was unusual sunspot activity that day, or maybe a government super-collider experiment.
Originally posted on thewulf.vox.com