This wall socket includes two USB ports for charging your mobile devices. Find out what you need and how to install it. Sharon Profis Former Vice President of Content, CNET Studios As vice president ...

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Since most of us have multiple devices at home that need regular charging, a USB Type-A Port fitted right in the wall socket can prove to be an unmatched convenience. These ports can be used to charge ...

Your typical wall socket just sits there defeated by life, making no decent effort to prevent the inevitable pwning by a 10-socket surge protector. Art Lebedev’s Rozetkus socket, however, transforms ...

In the cutthroat (?) world of wall outlet covers that feature built-in gadget holders, this $6 option might just be a contender. The big draw, aside from low price, is the hinged base that keeps your ...

For all the flack we give Apple, when the company is at its best, its industrial design is unparalleled. Take its Magsafe technology, which instantly popped the plug out of your laptop if someone ...

So far, I’ve blogged about smart shoes, smart carpets, smart shirts, smart glasses, ad nauseum. We are living in the era, it seems, of Smart Everything. Still, those smart wall sockets —dubbed ...

Design concepts. So tasty and fine! Nothing like a good, crispy piece of render porn showing a brilliant product that somehow isn’t on the market. For example: Meysam Movahedi’s recoling “Rambler” ...

What are the evocative sounds and smells of your childhood? The sensations that you didn’t notice at the time but which take you back immediately? For me one of them is the slight smell of phenolic ...

But not in the US. Anything like that here? I could use a switchable socket like that for a closet to avoid having digging into the closet to plug/unplug an appliance. ...or a switchable adapter for a ...