[HN Gopher] Tangle-free magnetic USB cables are here
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       Tangle-free magnetic USB cables are here
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-05-26 11:41 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | 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?
        
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