A couple of years back, I wrote about Min-Kyu Choi’s brilliant idea for a folding plug. I see that the design is now more than a concept, and is now an actual product. It’s a pity that the idea has been reduced in scope to being simply a USB charger for Smartphones. I expect that the dizzying combinations of cable connections that would have been needed for the original concept of a mains plug would have been uneconomic to produce.
A Plug for a Plug – Again
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4 responses to “A Plug for a Plug – Again”
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Your photo of the star/moon convergence was gorgeous, Geoff, well done! It doesn’t look near as good from here.
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Thanks, Brian. I wish I’d have been able to get the crescent without the blowout, though…
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Back in the late 1970s my father was a Visiting Professor in the UK. At that time only new construction had the now-standard UK outlet; older buildings needed such a wide variety of plugs that most appliances came with bare wires coming out the end of the cord so the buyer could install the plug needed for his or her house. The local Woolworth’s store had a HUGE section of adaptors to handle the multitude of plug and socket combinations.
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I remember it well. It was evolution gone cancerous. There were 2-amp, 5-amp and 13-amp round-pin plugs of various shapes and sizes…
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