We don't know what charlatanism is afoot here, but word is that Australian company Digital Works has come up with a way to recharge non-rechargeable batteries. We'd usually scoff at such blasphemy, ...

Well, can you? Let’s find out! I can’t keep the secret – YES YOU CAN! I took a pair of fully-drained alkaline batteries and put them in a standard Ni-MH battery charger – and it worked! It worked!

They don’t work for everything, and there’s the recharging time to take into account. But they let me cross “buy batteries” ...

Last night I accidentally charged up 4 AAA non-rechargeable batteries in my rayovac recharger - which the rayovac recharger manuals says you should never, never, ever do and it seemed to work just ...

Cool Tools author Kevin Kelly points to the $40 Battery Xtender which recharges "disposable" alkaline batteries. If you're a heavy battery consumer - especially parents with lots of battery-operated ...