News - Folding plug named design of the year

[HEXUS]

A folding plug designed by a London student has won the Brit Insurance design of the year award.

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[mikerr]

Its smaller than others, but I've seen similar in various travel mags

e.g. http://www.slimplug.com/
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...99603&T=Module @ £7.99

[Stefan_C]

Did you see the concept video posted a while ago?
It showed a pretty cool feature that allowed it to be plugged into special multi-gang extensions while still folded up, saving quite a bit of space.

[DWhitley]

Well done. Seems obvious with hindsight.

[mycarsavw]

Did you see the concept video posted a while ago?
It showed a pretty cool feature that allowed it to be plugged into special multi-gang extensions while still folded up, saving quite a bit of space.

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I'm ready to lop the end off all my leads and replace the plugs with this concept.

[miniyazz]

Congrats to him. It's overdue and an excellent idea.

[MaddAussie]

like the idea of the slim line gang of plugs

[omen]

I like it

[borandi]

Depending on the patent/licencing, I can see this being the de facto standard fairly quickly.

[matty-hodgson]

Looking forward to seeing these on the end of my wires . They're such a clever idea, but something so utterly simple.

Get thinking guys, what else could you change that's blindingly obvious?

[borandi]

Get thinking guys, what else could you change that's blindingly obvious?

The government?

[Singh400]

I wish they would actually push this through instead of just talking about it.

[handscombmp]

I wish they would actually push this through instead of just talking about it.

Exactly.
I'm sure i heard about this over a year ago (cold be wrong) but i haven't seen one in the shops yet

[Singh400]

Exactly.
I'm sure i heard about this over a year ago (cold be wrong) but i haven't seen one in the shops yet

I've been hearing about this, and watching videos, and reading articles about how good it is for the last 18 months I reckon.

We all agree it is a much needed change, no one is disputing how awesome it is. Just get the damn thing into production already.