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An iPhone 5 Cable That Never Tangles And Doubles As A Stand

Upgrade your iPhone 5′s default sync cable with the thicker, poseable Trunk and you’ll never spend another second of your life untangling that web of knots that magically appears in your pocket. Just make sure you’re OK with only four or five inches of slack.


Adorably Wrap Your iPhone Charger Like A Needle And Thread

Until smartphone batteries last for weeks on end, carrying a backup charging cable wherever you go will be a necessary evil. But at least you don’t have to deal with a perpetual tangle of wires if you import SoftBank’s new Itomaki AC Adapters. They’re shaped like a thread spool letting you wind your cable around so it’s always neat and tidy.


Intel’s Thunderbolt Revamped For Blistering 20Gbps, Beautiful 4K

Thunderbolt’s makin’ like greased lighting. Intel has just introduced the newest revision of the interface, and it will be capable of 20Gbps in both directions (as opposed to the previous 10).


WikiLeaks Spills Its Biggest Ever Stash Of Secret US Records

WikiLeaks has just released its biggest ever stash of formerly confidential information. Referred to as the “Kissinger Cables”, they include 1.7 million diplomatic records from between 1973 and 1976.


Drunk Idiot Dangles Upside Down From Power Cables

In the list of things you probably should never experience in your life, even if you’re sozzled to oblivion, dangling upside down from an active power cable is probably near the top. This very, very drunk man, however, obviously thinks differently.


Crazy Villains Caught Trying To Cut Through The Internet’s Undersea Cables

While the internet at large was freaking out about an apocalyptic attack that wasn’t really happening yesterday, something nefarious was going down at the bottom of the sea. Egyptian authorites found a trio of divers down there attempting to sever a crucial submarine communications cable.


Hollow Fibre Optic Tunnels Can Blast Data At Practically The Speed Of Light

We all want faster downloads, and developments like graphene antennas promise a speedy future. There is an upper limit — the speed of light — but that should be fast enough, right? Well, a new kind of hollow fibre optic cable promises to get us 99.7 per cent of the way there.



You Can Stash This Ultra-Thin iPhone 5 Charging Cable In Your Wallet

You can never carry too many backup charging cables, and since you probably never leave home without your wallet, the ChargeCard is the perfect accessory for battery-sucking smartphones. It’s only slightly thicker than a credit card, and it lets you leech power from any available USB port.


These Are All The Cables That Carry The Internet Under The Sea

The internet connects us all, but it’s easy to take for granted what a crazy accomplishment that is. After all, plenty of us live on different land masses. We’ve got to get that sweet, sweet internet across the deep blue sea somehow, and these are the underwater ‘net pipes that get the job done.


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