The time is probably due for MagSafe power-plugs. These plugs should detach safely and cleanly from the wall when you trip over them, not from the device itself. This would be even more useful in Britain where the three-pronged plugs, with their side-exiting cables, cannot be tugged from the wall no matter how hard you pull. Not intact, anyway.
We all know you shouldn’t yank a plug out by its cable, but we all do it and until a MagSafe socket comes along this concept by Konstantinos Ladas is the best the paranoid Brits can hope for. So confident is Ladas of his design that he has even included a bobble mid-cord to help the weak-fingered to pull on it.
The PVC housing apparently complies with strict UK regulations that specify a plug should either stay in place, unbroken, or pull free. This is to stop cracked housings from offering live wires to human fingers. Whatever. All I care about is being able to unplug an appliance without rooting around in the dark, inhaling carpet-dust as I blindly try to pry the correct plug from its socket.
As I said, it’s a concept design, and alternate plug designs have a habit of never making it to market in Britain. Maybe, though, there could be room for a thriving, underground black market in alternative power products? I’d be right there.
Let’s Yank A British Plug [Yanko]
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