Maybe it’s just that I’ve never worked in a large office environment, but I just can’t ever imagine becoming so attached to a coffee mug that I’d be prepared to physically remove a plug from the side of it to stop other office workers using it. But if being “that jerk” sounds like fun to you, Latestbuy has the plug mug available now.
It’s why they declared independence in America, and it may have something to do with fabled British teeth. The UK’s power plug is ridiculously large, and now one designer has fixed it.
Molex has prototyped a new miniature HDMI connector called Type D, which boasts the whole range of regular HDMI specs—19 pins, 10.2 Gbit/s bandwidth, HDCP, etc.—in a package the size of a Micro USB cable.
Think about it—an inexpensive Linux PC crammed inside a wall-wart plug. Something like this SheevaPlug could open up a whole new framework of managing and sharing data that could be accessible to the masses.
You know, I’m not one to pass judgments, but I’m not Ace Hardware. [Consumerist]
We already know most of what there is to know about USB 3.0—officially dubbed SuperSpeed USB—but today it’s officially set in stone. To recap, with transfer speeds of 4.8Gbps, it’ll dump a 25GB HD file in about 70 seconds, and the architecture has been beefed up with extra data lanes to make for more sustained, rather than bursty transfer speeds, making it better for camcorders and the like. Even though it delivers more power than USB 2.0 to charge gadgets faster (and it’ll revive a completely dead one too), its new polling architecture makes it more efficient.
Tributaries has had a rotating power strip on the market before, but this T12 seems like they’re going all out—and by all out, we mean adding two extra ports to the strip. The whole thing comes in at an amazing 12 ports, eight of which rotate at up to 90 degrees so AC adapters don’t bump into each other. Plus there’s even coax and Ethernet protection. Sounds good, right? Too bad it costs US$120, and doesn’t even include a UPS battery backup in that price. [Tributaries Cable]
The age old conundrum of AC adapter bricks not fitting correctly on power strips has had many solutions lately, but this Socket Sense seems to be quite a clever one to add to the pile. It looks like a standard strip with the plugs offset at a 45 degree angle, but each socket can actually slide up and down the strip to accommodate larger or smaller plugs.
There have been many solutions to the problem of fat AC adapters clogging up your surge protectors (like this), but this ezSpace UFO flying saucer protector from ezGear looks like it can actually be filled with all AC adapters without colliding. The secret is that it’s pretty huge and shaped like an flipped-over bowl, but it does the job in four and six-plug versions. There’s even a wall-mounted version as well. The first products will ship in January. [EZGear]
