Foldable power plug wins design honors
An electrical plug which folds flat has won a national design award. The plug is the work of British student Min-Kyu Choi and was first shown off at his graduate exhibition.
Choi says the inspiration came from the MacBook Air, billed as the world’s thinnest laptop. He noted that this was somewhat undermined by the fact that Britain still uses a particularly chunky three-pin plug system, with the pins often scratching the equipment in transit, or poking through a bag or padded envelope being used for transit.
His design allows two of the pins to be rotated so that the three are in a straight line rather than a triangle, meaning the plug can be turned sideways and lie flat in transit. As the plugs still work in this mode, he’s also designed an adaptor which allows three such plugs to lay next to each other and take up the same room by the socket as one standard plug.
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