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Awesome Band

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If the price was more reasonable, this manufacturer would sell today more than they can possibly produce in a year :)

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Of the times that they're on Woot, they're frequently like five bucks? :)

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We used to have a little t.v. for camping. (Why, I don't know) It was connected to an extra car battery. Worked fine. I thought it was stupid. But it did come in handy during a hurricane evacuation.

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I think I see the Palm Pro (USB) charger there.

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That's the reason why UK mains plus are individually fused. You don't really want trailing cables running at mains voltage with little or no protection. The picture is US 110V outlets. I have two versions of a panasonic battery charger: the US one (which is a wall-wart, with folding prongs), and the UK version (which is a figure-of-eight socket on the charger, and a bundled mains voltage cable, and a proper normal moulded, fused mains plug). Admittedly, the US version would be more portable - were it not to keep losing contact.Still doesn't explain why Panasonic didn't design the camera so it could charge over USB (or why they had a non-standard USB socket on the camera, or why the camera offers up the contents of the memory card to the USB attached computer as read-only). Sure, charging over USB might not be fast, but at least it's a standard. At least nowadays, the phone handset manufacturers (apart from Apple) are waking up to a standard charger connector.

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Hate to burst your bubble - but if you only paid $5, then chances are that the maker won't guarantee it. Most powerstrips come with some sort of guarantee and promise some form of reimbursement if their product fails - but the cheap ones don't. Unless you don't think you'll ever own any electronics worth more than $50, you might want to consider investing in another powerstrip. They last a good long time anyway - I've had mine for at least 10 years. Never would've bought another one if not for the fact that I needed more outlets.

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Not really an option for a UPS with outlets too close together, and no I don't want to plug in a Powersquid to one outlet on my UPS I don't really think it's designed to have the entire load on one outlet.

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Best fix of the actual plug:<a class="user" href="http://www.dezeen.com/2009/06/29/folding-plug-by-min-kyu-choi/&quot; rel="nofollow">http://www.dezeen.com/2009/06/29/folding-plug-by-m ...</a>

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