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Rhodri Marsden
Journalist and musician Rhodri Marsden has been addressing common technology problems by stripping away the jargon and enlisting the help of readers in his Cyberclinic column in The Independent for the past two years.
I was just in the middle of writing a more lengthy post about real-time search, when someone sent me a link to this video. For those of us whose love affair with the British mains plug never really got off the ground – and let's face it, that's pretty much all of us – this is a brilliant idea that a) I can't believe anyone hasn't thought of already, and b) I hope makes the inventor a much-deserved pile of cash. Behold:
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Top idea, can't wait to see this in the stores.
A few years ago I was carrying my laptop with the plug in my manbag, and the prongs worked their way between the halves of the folded laptop and busted my screen. Cost £££hundreds to replace. So yeah. Needed. Hope it goes into production soon.