Gizmodo: connector

E-Ball: the Power-Brick-Friendly Power Strip, From Space

Kit Eaton — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:45:00 EDT

Who'd have thought that the humble power strip would warrant so much creative design attention? Not me. But I like this e-Ball power strip design from Mashallah design: it's kind of like the UFO one, designed to deconflict many chunky power bricks, but taken into an extra dimension. In fact, the first thing it reminded me of was the space stations in the amazing old game Elite. But that might be just me. It's a concept, but begging for someone to make it real. [Interior Design Room]

Monster Cable Has Cojones of Steel, C&Ds Blue Jeans Cable Because Their Connectors Are Too Similar

Jason Chen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:40:00 EDT

It's really, really tough to like Monster Cable as a company. Everyone knows how they mark up their prices and how a coat hanger may even be as good as their cables under short distances, but their business practices aren't much better either. They're following up up their last legal maneuver against a clothing company with the unfortunate name of Monster Vintage by serving Blue Jeans Cable and Tartan Cable with a cease and desist because their cable connectors are too similar. Just look at the comparison above. Do they look too similar. Would you be confused if you saw the two? Which one of them has the "Monster" logo on it again? I can't tell. [Audio Junkies]

Cellink T USB Thumb Drive Stores, Links

Jason Chen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Here's a weird USB thumb drive called Cellink T from Korea's Human C&C which looks like a normal thumb drive at first, but flips out into a two-pronged cellphone connector. One of the ports still goes into your computer's USB drive, naturally, while the other slides into a cellphone (Korean, naturally) in order to transfer files or charge the battery. There's actually a microSD card reader in there too, which makes the whole package even more convenient to carry around for grabbing stuff off your phone. [AVING via DVICE]