Plug-Watch: Cute Power Cube, The Best Adapter Yet?

Power plugs. You hate them, I’m obsessed with and fascinated by them, so here’s something for both of us. The Cute Cube not only looks great, it solves pretty much all the annoyances of a multi-socket adapter.

The cube has, naturally, six sockets, with the cable trailing unobtrusively from a corner. This alone is enough to make the Tetris-puzzle of modern gadget-plugging a lot easier, with all six plugs staying out of each other’s way. The (literal) twist, and the detail that probably won the prestigious Red Dot design award all on its own, is that the sockets swivel in their, uh, sockets. This means that those awkwardly shaped transformers can be spun away from each other instead of blocking an essential hole.

Good for home, to be sure, but even better on the road. The easiest way to power a lot of gadgets in a foreign country is a power strip, needing only one international adapter to hook it up. The Cute Cube is small enough to toss in a suitcase.

It appears that the Cube has yet to find a manufacturer, but when it does I shall buy one. It’s certainly a lot safer than my current (ahem) solution, which consists of chopping off the plug and pushing the bare wires into the outlet with matchsticks.

Cute Cube [Red Dot via Oh Gizmo!]

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