Inventions you never knew you'd need: the folding plug
Unnamed inventor takes the vast, bulky, painful-to-tread-on UK three-pin plug and makes it fold away in a beautiful feat of engineering. Nerds and dads will love it
24 June 2009
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EVER tried to pack your mobile phone charger but found it takes too much room in your bag? Ever wondered why your laptop’s plug seems to be bulkier than the computer it powers?
Ever found, in short, that the UK standard three-pin plug is a pain in the proverbial, not least when you tread on an upturned one in bare feet as you walk through the house in the dark?
An unnamed inventor may have just solved all your problems.
The H-264 Folding Plug, currently doing the rounds on Twitter and YouTube, manages to take the whopping plug – 4.6cm (almost 2in) thick from pin-tip to back – and reduce it to a size-zero 1cm.
It might not sound that impressive, but watch the video – it’s an astonishing feat of engineering. Techie nerds all over the web are marvelling at its elegance, as well as wondering why on earth no-one thought of it before.
So (if it takes off), no more torn rucksacks or scratched iPods from stuffing those clunky things into your bag. And, best of all, no more screaming in agony after treading on one as you stumble to the toilet at 3am.
Update: Thanks to the reader who pointed out that the inventor is in fact one Min Kyu Choi and that the plug is on display at the Royal College of Art graduate Show until 5 July
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