Electrical Plug - Latest Design - INNOVATION HAS NO LIMITS ! - THE SLIM 3-PIN PLUG !!

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2013年2月5日

Electrical Plug - Latest Design

The New British Standard

Slimmed Down Three-Pin Plug

The Royal College of Art's graduate show has opened,

and this year, the show-stopper was actually -- a plug.

Min-Kyu Choi impressed every passerby with his neat,

apparently market-ready plug that folds down to

the width of a thin mobile computer.

"Many of today's mobile computers have become

wafer thin but here in the UK , we still use the

world's biggest three-pin plug," says Choi.

Enter Choi's slimmed down British

three-pin plug wonder.

Choi's plug is just 10mm wide when folded.

To unfold it, the two live pins swivel 90 degrees

and the plastic surround folds back around

the pins so the face of the plug looks the same

as a standard UK plug.

The idea produced a spin off, too.

Choi created a multi-plug adaptor,

which is a compact standard plug sized unit

with space for three folded plugs to slot in,

as well as one that charges USB devices.

The multi-plug adaptor has an

ultra-compact sandwich design

that enables three compatible plugs

to cohabit side by side to take up

a remarkable small amount of room

The ultra slimline triple plug adaptor

The USB-pluggable three-pin plug adaptor

It's so plausible and so obvious a product

that it should produce a few red faces;

how many more years are we going

to endure attaching our palm sized mobiles

and wafer thin laptops to an object that's

barely been touched since its first design in 1946?

Choi picked an everyday product that

most other designers might have found

too mundane to dabble with and

drastically improved it - exactly

the kind of thinking that we should be

celebrating right now.

A very clean and elegantly

simple solution to an age-old

British problem

An incredible way to feed power

directly to charge USB devices -

a solution no one has thought about.

Till now.

Choi's full menu of uber-ideas

for revolutionising the archaic British plug