My nearest and dearest know that I am a gadget girl. I love gadgets. I love new and improved technology. I love the allure of something that looks like it will make your life easier, usually it doesn't, but I am drawn to it like a magnet hoping that it might.
And I think about gadgets a lot of the time. Wouldn't it be easier if such and such could work or look that way, or this way, instead of how it currently works or looks?
Well the British plug is one of those things that has annoyed me over the years, especially after living in Canada. Our plugs are so bulky. Horrible, chunky, 'take up so much room' bulky! I have a lovely set of hair straighteners, slim, thinline, small, but the plug? How much bigger could it be? North American plugs on the other hand are reasonably small. Kitchen appliances can be tidied away so much easier, so too can hair tools!
Browsing the internet today I came across the following on the James Dyson Award pages, an international design award to celebrate, encourage and inspire the next generation of design engineers. Check out the video below.
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How cool is that? Pity that it doesn't look like it could be retro fitted on to appliances but it's certainly something that I think could change the face of the British plug - for the better!
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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at last someone looking at plug design - they would be so wonderful for travelling - I sometimes think a third of my luggage weight is plugs - even worse when I need adaptors too
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