In the past, I have laughed rather snidely at the paranoia my fellow countrymen exhibit regarding electricity. From grounded plugs on everything, to wall sockets with breaker switches, to public service commercials telling you to unplug everything at night in case you burn down the house, the Brits are an easy target.
But as my bedroom becomes home to more and more blinkenlight-equipped gadgets, the ability to just switch it all off is a tempting one. Yong-jin Kim’s solution is a Europlug-friendly design with the cute twist of looking like the universal power symbol. As you push in the plug, you depress the central line of the symbol. When this switch is all the way in, you can then twist the plug 45-degrees to the right, letting the sweet life-giving electrical juice flow into your gadget’s circuits. And of course, twisting back to the right cuts the power.
It’s a lot more compact and efficient than the UK’s standard socket, with its rectangular switch at the side of each outlet, and deserves to become a real product and not remain the CGI concept it is right now.
Product page [Yanko]
See Also:
- Gallery Of The World's Power Sockets
- Cable Madness: Crazy Connectors We Can Do Without
- Five Dollar Wall Warts Add Individual Power Switches
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