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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.

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 84 points 11 months ago

Ah, the old school electric car cigarette lighter. Also known as "The curious child's first learning experience with the concept of 'hot' "

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 18 points 11 months ago

How many noses have fallen to its lure?

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 26 points 11 months ago
[-] DaGeek247@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago

Same here. I was playing with the little cover thing, accidentally got it stuck, and the plastic handle started to melt off. Burnt the tips of my fingers trying to get it fixed.

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I learned the hard way that

  1. it still worked even if the car was off and

  2. even if you pop it out early, perhaps thinking it's not working, it can still be hot enough to burn you even if it isn't red hot like you normally see it.

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

Ash trays in all the passenger doors. AKA mini trash cans.

[-] admin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Ohhhh shit so that's what they were? As a kid I used to see them as mini cup holders.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Eh, I just took it out to plug in my Game Boy/Game Gear.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago

[off topic?]

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

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago

“...a built-in cigarette case which “hands” you a cigarette at the [unintelligible] of a convenient lever.”

Really disappointed that's all that link had... No pictures or illustrations, not even a proper description :/

[-] Wasabi@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

Found it in the Popular Mechanics issue.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] kernelle@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

This one has images and a diagram. So you pull the lever on the bottom and on top a cigarette will be Pezzed out. Here's the car it was installed in. Didn't find anything about it being lit though.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I wanted a video, but couldn't find one.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

check the thread. Other people are smarter than us.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago
[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Work smarter, not harder

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

And they say no one wants to work these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] slumberlust@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Was the auto play auto focus video ad not enough of a motivator?

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

"motivator"? I'm sorry, what am I supposed to be motivated to do?

[-] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

This company is does a cool thing. I saw them on Adam Savage’s YouTube last year. Any product they scan, is uploaded to their site. Any person can launch the web app and look at the scans of the things they’ve scanned. You can view the full images in all dimensions.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

The 3d scans you can manipulate on that page are pretty cool.

Not all that surprised by the lighters mechanism though; a bit of nickle chrome wire for a heating element and some bi-metal strips to release it based on temperature. Pretty simple.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago

My electric car only has USB ports and no cigarette lighter, so I bet you're right about it being replaced.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

You're still buying GPS devices? What's wrong with your phone?

Not judging - genuinely curious why some people buy them.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Ah okay, I don't go to places with spotty coverage all that often...and when I do I just download that part of Google maps onto my phone and it works just fine. And by "that part" I mean a significant part of my country! Small world here in Europe I guess.

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Me, being old, thinking about the kids who might see this and not understand it at all.

[-] boringbisexual 1 points 11 months ago

I should've seen the bimetallic strip coming. I've watched enough technology connections

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 11 months ago

Wow thanks, that's so amazing!

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