This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.
Ah, the old school electric car cigarette lighter. Also known as "The curious child’s first learning experience with the concept of ‘hot’ "
How many noses have fallen to its lure?
Fingertips for me, lol.
Ash trays in all the passenger doors. AKA mini trash cans.
It’s cool how elegant the design is that it automatically ejects when it’s done heating up without needing a sensor and digital system to read and handle that action. It’s also cool how a feature designed solely to light a cigarette has been adapted to power all sorts of other things. I wonder if these ports will be obsoleted in favor of only having USBs.
My electric car only has USB ports and no cigarette lighter, so I bet you’re right about it being replaced.
My first GPS came with a cigarette lighter plug.
My next one came with a USB cable along with a cigarette lighter to USB adapter.
I think most these days now come with a USB cable but no adapter.
I’m now starting to see some devices come with USB-C cables.
You’re still buying GPS devices? What’s wrong with your phone?
Not judging - genuinely curious why some people buy them.
Bought my first one probably 20+ years ago at this point.
Bought my second one probably 10+ years ago when traveling abroad and it was more reliable and cheaper to have offline maps of the countries I was going to.
We like to travel to places that often have spotty cellular coverage, if at all.
I should’ve seen the bimetallic strip coming. I’ve watched enough technology connections
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You used to be able to get a special dispenser that would hand you a lit cigarette as you drove.
https://jalopnik.com/cars-once-came-with-built-in-cigarette-dispensers-1795733052
No image or diagram? What’s the point of going to the trouble of writing an article of solely words about something most people have never seen before?