OSNews > Thread > "missread the title" by poundsmack

Linked by David Adams on Mon 26th Oct 2009 19:32 UTC

The "wall wart" is one of humanity's worst inventions (not counting all of the inventions that are actually intended to kill and maim each other, I'll admit). AC-plug power supplies are a cheap workaround to various engineering, economic, and regulatory problems that manufacturers face, and they solve those problems by pushing them off onto end users. So what can we do about it? OSNews takes a look at an ingenious workaround to the Wall Wart problem, and some hopeful trends that might make them a thing of the past.

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missread the title

by poundsmack on Mon 26th Oct 2009 20:19 UTC

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2005-07-13

that this was going to be about how Thom hates Wallmart. Which was even more confusing since that company isn't even in Thom's home country.

Now that the confusion is past, i think something like this would be nice for power cords: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/93ad/

looking forward to the cable nightmear being over...

Edited 2009-10-26 20:20 UTC

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RE: missread the title

by David on Mon 26th Oct 2009 20:21 in reply to "missread the title"

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There's a link in the article to the AC Squid, which was around before the USB squid was.

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RE[2]: missread the title

by poundsmack on Mon 26th Oct 2009 21:16 in reply to "RE: missread the title"

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...touche. thank you, not sure how i missed that.

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RE: missread the title

by Bill Shooter of Bul on Mon 26th Oct 2009 23:34 in reply to "missread the title"

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2006-07-14

Yeah, me too. It happens with all stories about wall warts. My mind just inverts the w.

But more realted to this story, I blew up my first hand held video game due to using the wrong wall wart. Ye old tandy electronic football. I was sick of buying batteries for it, and I saw it had a dc connector. I found one that fit plugged it in and the game worked! ... For about 30 seconds before a capacitor blew up cracking the screen.

It was about that time that I started to try and understand electricity before just pluging random stuff in.

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You read my mind

by Lennie on Tue 27th Oct 2009 00:04 in reply to "missread the title"

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missread the title that this was going to be about how Thom hates Wallmart. Which was even more confusing since that company isn't even in Thom's home country.

you read my mind, I had the same confusion.

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RE: missread the title

by aliquis on Tue 27th Oct 2009 06:16 in reply to "missread the title"

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2005-07-23

Useless stuff: I haven't been able to login for ages afaik, weird that it worked now, but I guess atleast now I can post comments then ..

Useful stuff: But why buy that from thinkgeek for 20 dollars + shipping when you could get it for around 5 with free worldwide shipping?
4.55 dollars: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.28670
5.31 dollars with more power and one mini-USB: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13526

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