As a season-appropriate follow up to the blog entry on Bad, Bad Batteries, here’s a ghoulish gallery of photos showing what happens to electronic devices when batteries go bad. Boo!!!

No juice left in this ruined AA Alkaline battery

Two NiCds leak better than one (times two)

One AA leaked, the other didn’t but just wait until 2014

A quartet of leaky clock batteries

Data might still be safe? Nah!

A little NiCd battery juice makes for a lot of aged circuitry

Bad battery ends the games for this Game Boy cartridge

This Macintosh battery holder is one rotten apple

The battery’s gone but the destruction remains in this HP 35 calculator