Charging an iPod with an onion and Gatorade
- November 20th, 2007
- 9 Comments
How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and teachers? My name is some guy with an iPod and an onion and physics is my business and our very special business for today is electrolytes and onions. Man, Julius Sumner Miller was the bomb.
[Thanks, James!]









Mike (Who am I?)
9 months ago
That’s actually pretty cool. I imagine you could do that with any usb device as long as it doesn’t require a lot more energy than the iPod does.
Vash
9 months ago
How the hell does this work? There are 4 pins in usb, only 2 are for power…
Am I missing something here? I would imagine lemons or a potato would work much better.
I mean it sounds like the electrons would just be flowing all over the place, making this a horrible battery.
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KAB3WM (Who am I?)
9 months ago
BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA. This is almost as good as the lantern battery / AA’s thing. I wonder how many people will end up angry with usb cables that smell like onions?
Paul G (Who am I?)
9 months ago
you can do this with a potato too.
Shelby
9 months ago
Why does this experiment work. I would like to know so Ican do this for a science experiment. Is there any scientific explantion behind all of this?
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Anonymous
9 months ago
Geee…. WHAT DO YOU THINK, SHELBY?? is there one?
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Fish licker (Who am I?)
9 months ago
Wow. This is so gay….. Its a lifesaver. (Not for your mouth) I’m bloody gay.
Anonymous
9 months ago
tally ho chaps!!!!!!!
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vandactor
6 months ago
This is crap, in order to make a battery you need two different metals in an electrolyte solution. Look at the potato clocks, they use copper and zinc electrodes. All this would do is screw up your USB plug. Look in any general chemistry book if you doubt me.
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