[HN Gopher] Tangle-free magnetic USB cables are here ___________________________________________________________________ Tangle-free magnetic USB cables are here Author : Tomte Score : 11 points Date : 2022-05-26 11:41 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.theverge.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com) | UberFly wrote: | Seems like a big waste of neodymium for a bit of lazy | convenience. | donw wrote: | "Big waste for a bit of lazy convenience" sums up the present | state of things quite nicely. | rektide wrote: | If you want a real upgrade, I swear by the cables that have | integrated watt-meters built in. | | It's so nice to have fast feedback about how heavily you're using | a multi-port charger, to see whether your phone or laptop is | charging as fast as you'd expect. | | It's a pity that devices don't just report their charging | figures. In Linux a lot of laptops have really good power | reporting; I could tell exactly how fast my laptop is charging. | Phones too know. But devices simply don't deign tell consumers | what the status is, what's happening. There may be a fast or | regular charge... but it's so much less than the real data. For a | lot of devices, the last 20% of charge often goes very slow. | Knowing that, seeing that, would be good information, for | example. | donw wrote: | This times a large physical constant. | | I would be pleased with a world where every device I plugged in | could broadcast its energy consumption via the low-bandwidth | flavor of HomePlug (a powerline networking standard), with a | filter at the breaker to stop external data leakage. | | It'd be great to know what's eating the most power, how much | capacity I'd need to plan for home solar or battery-backup, | identify leaks, etc. | aarobot wrote: | How long until someone accidentally breaks their device through | electromagnetic induction? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-28 23:00 UTC)