How a Leather Cover Crashes the Kindle 280
An anonymous reader writes "Amazon has started offering refunds to Kindle owners who own the unlit leather case who claim that it causes their Kindles to reboot, but are playing dumb on the cause: "our engineering team is looking into this." People have been wondering how a leather cover could possibly crash an electronic device, and why is Amazon offering money back if they don't think there's a problem? It seems that some of the folks over at Connectify have figured it out, and it's a doozy!"
Re:Yikes! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yikes! (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they can substitute the metal now connecting the hooks with extremely fine steel wool. Then everyone will remember it's the Kindle.
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
The upside (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not unprecedented (Score:5, Funny)
I have a similar experience when we were installing some computers in a hydro power station control center. The old control system used electromechanical relays, so it was quite robust, but the digital computers kept crashing. There were some 500 kV lines right going over the control center, so it was assumed they were causing enough interference to crash the computers.
After months of studies, it was decided that shielding the control center was the only solution. However there was a problem, the large glass window to the observation hall. Someone mentioned that there existed a transparent conductive paint, so they called a paint supplier:
-"Hello, I'm looking for some invisible paint, to paint glass"
They hung up without an answer at the other side...
Re:KaWow (Score:5, Funny)
Free lit case? (Score:4, Funny)
So all you have to do is scrape the paint, and wire in a little LED and resistor, and you have a free lit case? Thanks Amazon !
Amazon press release? (Score:4, Funny)
Jeff Bezos: "You're reading it wrong."
:)
Mine Works Fine (Score:2, Funny)