The UK three-pin plug has got to be the bulkiest plug in the contemporary world. If you have used one, you will know that it is positively huge. This creates more than just little problems. When it is being carried around, it is really the worst thing that you need to pack in. This is especially bad when laptop users need to carry things around. Sure you have the coolest, thinnest laptop around but you also have to pack in its bulky three-pin wielding power cord whenever you want to carry it. So your laptop bag looks like it is pregnant, has bad case of tumor or it will simply look like you are bad at hiding things!
There have been attempts to make the three pin plug slimmer but none have been very successful. So when it comes to a power brick for the MacBook Air, you are not likely to have a great time stuffing it into your nice and slim laptop bag. And that is another problem – laptop bags are not designed to handle that bulky plug, you have to pack them in anyway. So it is agreed unanimously amongst users of the UK three pin plug that it is the most cumbersome thing every designed (almost).
So a designer took up the challenge to change the three-pin plug in to something that will fit the width of a MacBook Air and tat by itself is taking on a huge challenge. Here you have a mini brick sized plug and there you are trying to match it to the world’s thinnest laptop. But hey, if inventors did not take up the challenge, we’d still be hunting wild game with clubs. The task must have been really problematic at first but this designer/inventor came up with an ingenious method to make the three in UK plug smaller. The plug will simply fold upon itself, completely.
So now we have a folding UK three-pin plug that folds down less than 1 centimeter! And as crazy as it sounds, when you see it in action you can’t help being impressed at the sheer ingenuity of the inventor. So far, the product is only at the design stage and t he inventor is looking for someone to pick it. The design looks brilliant in white and gray and suits Apple to the T, I mean A. Now if only they would pick it up.
Here’s the presentation video. Be warned, the voice over was done by someone who is non-english speaking, so it is not the best voice over but gets the points across quite well with the graphics.
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