Inspirational new folding plug design
Posted by Science Oxford on November 9, 2009 | comments
This is genius, yet so simple. A student has created a new design for the classic three-pin plug. The new design was shown at this year’s Royal College of Art’s graduate show.
Read on to find out a bit more, and make sure you visit the site to view all the images (link below).
Visit this page »When people carry laptops with U.K plugs in a bag, it always causes problems such as tearing paper, scratching laptop surfaces and, sometimes, it breaks other stuff. ‘Folding Plug’ changes the shape form the normal U.K plug into a 10mm thickness object, solving these damaging problems. The ‘Folding Plug’ is also advantageous when people have to travel aboard. People normally carry up to three electronic devices for their journey, such as a mobile phone, a digital camera or an iPod, However, we usually carry only one universal plug. Whilst multi-plug adapters and USB chargers allow us to use one plug socket for many devices, they are still bulky objects. The flat properties of my folding plug have inspired the development of a multi-plug adapter that also performs in space-saving ways. By using the folding plug whilst it is folded, ‘Multi Flat Plug’ and ‘USB Charger’ allows for 3 devices to be plugged into the mains, but only inhabiting a little more space than a standard UK plug
What do you think?