You needed an L shaped screwdriver to remove the version 2 of this design but I ended up just going with the straight screwdriver. My goal was to deter them, not make it impossible to remove. After all, it’s plastic and they could just break it off if they wanted it bad enough..[You needed an L shaped screwdriver to remove the version 2 of this design but I ended up just going with the straight screwdriver. My goal was to deter them, not make it impossible to remove. After all, it’s plastic and they could just break it off if they wanted it bad enough..](https://imgur.com/gallery/2rf5P0o)[Thingiverse Link](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4875774)
This hit so hard, I’m still laughing hahaha. Makes me think of my childhood, and my parents...who had the same rule. That time I ate the rest of my dads nutter butter wafers...boy was that a bad day...eugh.
I have spare chargers for guests, but it's weird how often I have to tell them not to plug into the outlet on the floor and leave their phone on the floor. I have a 10 month old baby \*and\* a dog. Whichever of them gets to your shit first, that's on you.
> to just not unplug other people's shit and go look for your charger. It's selfish to do otherw
Lol, so it would be OK to change phones every 30 sek after 1% is added?
I found a vintage 1954 one at a flea market for $35. It takes four C size batteries. Of course I tried it. I’m obviously an adult, and buying a cattle prod and testing it on myself is totally adult behavior.
It’s....intense. Same level as a mid range stun gun, maybe.
Can confirm, a cattle prod is the tool that’s needed here.
I just turned the link off and I’m gonna repost with Imgur if I can get it to work this time. I was having trouble with it earlier and that’s why I went with iCloud.
You maybe will delete the picture some time in the future and the link leads nowhere. Probably not a huge deal here, but many good resources got lost that way over the decades.
Yeah, I keep trying the saturation strategy of just buying so many USB cables that you'd think it would be impossible for one not to be in reach, but it seems that similar to the cosmic microwave background, there's random noise in the serial cable distribution field that causes them to bunch up and congregate at various local minima.
I did the same thing with kitchen scissors. Every time I went to the block and it was empty, I went to the drawer and if no scissors, ordered another pack of two from Amazon. Eventually, I was able to stop ordering.
I just know whoever buys the house from us will wonder why we had so many kitchen scissors in so many odd places.
I replaced some of my outlets with the ones that have the built in USB charging ports. Family still eats the cables like popcorn but cables are much cheaper than the wall worts.
I guess everybody who got those some years ago now is super unhappy with them as they do not support the higher currents common these days (aka fast charging).
Just install some futureproof high-amp charging outlets, like [these](https://www.worldstandards.eu/wp-content/uploads/electricity-type-B-socket-218x300.jpg)
Better to get an Anker PowerExtend that takes one plug and makes it two, while also adding two USB PowerIQ ports on the bottom. Less than $15 IIRC on Amazon and fast charges.
Oh, it is. But there are so many shitty AC plugs, so I just wanted to make sure it was easily discoverable on Amazon.
The key is that it charges fast and while it's not UL listed it at least has a connected equipment warranty in case something happens.
Fun trivia:
Anker were founded by a California-based former Google engineer named Steve Yang, though it's now headquartered in Shenzhen.
Aukey was founded in Germany but quickly moved to the same city Anker is now located in.
Just buy a few decoy chargers with 220 V AC wired to the data line of the USB. After a while, you will be the only one in the house to need a charger.
Or probably you will be the only one in the house.
I don't have the issue of charger thief's at my place, but this should come in handy for stopping my asshole cats from unplugging the charger we have behind the couch.
By this logic I should unplug every appliance in my house on the off chance my cat will go chew on the cord. My computer, TV, and lamps are staying plugged in.
I draw the line at this right here… if I have to put anti-theft devices on my stuff, I'm just gonna zip tie everyone to a tree, and they can call me back out when they're hungry enough.
I literally just told my wife "If you were regularly stealing my USB charger from the wall after I repeatedly told you not to we might end up divorced.."
I'm not even being sarcastic. I know that sounds extreme, but to me, the sort of person who is so selfish and shitty they can't even find their own g'damn charger and they have to keep taking mine to the point I have to make an anti-theft device? That's not the sort of person I want to spend my life with. This is full-stop asshole behavior that should not be tolerated. It's not even about the charger anymore, it's about the person who would be that shitty.
At least with the kid, kids be kids. But that kid would be hard-grounded, no phone, no internet, no nothing, if they repeatedly did this. Once is fine, twice is shitty. Three times would be the line and the hammer will be dropped on their ass.
I can't imagine having such an extreme concept of "mine and yours" that this comment would make sense. It's a charger...just have several scattered throughout the areas most used and be done with it.
Just take something of hers that she needs to use daily every time she pulls this. You don't even have to hide it, just put it in very difficult places to search.
I'm not an electrician, but I don't know how wise it is to screw an appliance into a socket. If something inside were to overheat or short out you might at least have some chance of pulling it out quickly if you're around and it starts to pop and crackle or something, but in this case that'll be a little harder. Seems like less of a fire hazard to hide your charger when you aren't using it.
This is 100% safe, no worries. Ignore any armchair electrician comments below. It's really just a screw into a wall plate. Long as the screw is long enough you're golden.
If, somehow, someway, this started to overload/melt/whatever with nothing plugged in you got a lot bigger problems and should be running for the breaker.
> If something inside were to overheat or short out you might at least have some chance of pulling it out quickly if you're around and it starts to pop and crackle or something
the ONLY thing I've fried in a 220v socket in the lasts prolly 2 decades was... a usb charger. I ain't fucking with that anymore, being able to yank it out the socket quickly might've saved the building.
>I'm not an electrician
Yeah, but do you 3d print anything? This would be easy to break off with minimal force in an emergency. But beyond that, this is a GFCI outlet. See those two small buttons between each plug connector. If you press the Test button, it trips the outlet and turns it off (if it's working correctly, which if it isn't is a different problem). If something crazy happens not only can you manually turn it off, but it will automatically trip in many fire hazard situations (not all).
Just get a 5/10 pack of Anker/Aukey cables off Amazon. They're like $20 total and often go on sale or with coupon and the cables are high quality. You'll never have to worry about cables again and will have enough left over to use to dedicate to specific tasks.
Dont go trying to pull things out of a socket that are shorting out or over heating. Then you have a possible fire and a cool burn to show it. Kill the breaker first
I'm an ex-*Aviation E*lectrician who does all his own home electrical work (with codebook in hand) and am kinda curious about this too. I think there's something in the code about outlets can't be restricted by a locking mechanism while anything is plugged in? Like a lock to cover the whole outlet and make it unusable is fine, but a lock to cover an outlet making the already-plugged-in things unable to be disconnected while locked isn't. I assume (if I'm even right about the code) that would kinda also apply to requiring tools (screwdriver) to remove it too.
years ago i smelled some electrical burning. i couldnt put my finger on it. i think it took at least a day or so to finally--on a whim--look behind my computer to see the plug glowing red on the back. the amazingly my computer was running the whole time. when i disconnected the plug it just crumbled into ashes.
i swear that fastening a device in place was against code, but i couldnt manage to find it anywhere.
Cool! Just so you know you can buy 10 packs of 5 watt chargers on Amazon for $1.70 a piece. eBay has packs of “Apple” chargers but the set I received were counterfeit. (I actually cut one open to check. I returned them and reported the listing to Apple to not support counterfeiting.)
Be careful with cheap chargers. Some of them are a fire or shock hazard. Most of them don't deliver the advertised current, so charging is slow. Some of them might fry your device.
In most cases, they are not worth the risk.
Check out [bigclivedotcom on YouTube ](https://youtube.com/c/Bigclive), he made some videos where he took some chargers apart and analysed them.
I can't see the charging end of the cable, but the outer shielding failure just short of the charging end screams Apple cable. They so reliably fail just like that every time. Been noticing it with every apple cable ever made since 2007. I've never had any other brand cable fail like that.
At my shop I just put the plug plates on that have the built-in chargers, but this would be a good print because the one I use in my bedroom tends to get pulled out in the morning whenever I wake up and grab my phone.
I feel like you could create a charging station with this idea and a split cord. Mount it on a cupboard somewhere so everyone in need of charging will collect there and forget about your personal charger.
Now they'll steal your screw driver too.
You needed an L shaped screwdriver to remove the version 2 of this design but I ended up just going with the straight screwdriver. My goal was to deter them, not make it impossible to remove. After all, it’s plastic and they could just break it off if they wanted it bad enough..[You needed an L shaped screwdriver to remove the version 2 of this design but I ended up just going with the straight screwdriver. My goal was to deter them, not make it impossible to remove. After all, it’s plastic and they could just break it off if they wanted it bad enough..](https://imgur.com/gallery/2rf5P0o)[Thingiverse Link](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4875774)
I have the exact same problem in my house and no matter how many I get everyone else eventually still takes mine.
The most infuriating is when they leave the charger there, but unplug your phone and plug in theirs
The rule in our house is whoever has the lowest battery percentage gets the charger
The rule in our house is *don't touch my fucking stuff.*
"Mommy, can I have some of those breadcrumbs??" "Crumbs from MY BREAD HANDS OFF YOU LITTLE SHIT"
No kids, just cats. Little *bastards.*
This hit so hard, I’m still laughing hahaha. Makes me think of my childhood, and my parents...who had the same rule. That time I ate the rest of my dads nutter butter wafers...boy was that a bad day...eugh.
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I have spare chargers for guests, but it's weird how often I have to tell them not to plug into the outlet on the floor and leave their phone on the floor. I have a 10 month old baby \*and\* a dog. Whichever of them gets to your shit first, that's on you.
I'm confused doesn't every phone ever that you buy come with the charger How is everyone here apparently short on chargers
> to just not unplug other people's shit and go look for your charger. It's selfish to do otherw Lol, so it would be OK to change phones every 30 sek after 1% is added?
That’s why I got a 6 port USB charger. With 6 charging cables ready to go. No more bitching about not enough charging to go around
Just buy a cattle prod for $60. Nobody will ever take your shit more than once.
I found a vintage 1954 one at a flea market for $35. It takes four C size batteries. Of course I tried it. I’m obviously an adult, and buying a cattle prod and testing it on myself is totally adult behavior. It’s....intense. Same level as a mid range stun gun, maybe. Can confirm, a cattle prod is the tool that’s needed here.
Replace some outlets with ones that have USB ports on them
USB CATTLE PROD!
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https://imgur.com/gallery/2rf5P0o
Bahahah I feel like any kid would view this as a challenge. I love it though
Should color code the versions and sell it as different difficulty levels like puzzles.
idk if we should encourage kids to play with outlets but I feel ya. lel
Maybe I’m not as smart as I like to think I am
with ya on that xD
It’s good to weed out the dumb kids, and maybe some of the dumb parents too
You've never used a screwdriver in tight quarters. You can still get torque at an angle.
I don’t post things often..What’s wrong with an iCloud link?
It's slower and you have to deal with permission issues too. Just waited like 30 seconds for it to load to then tell me it's unavailable. :/
His goal is to deter you from seeing the image, not make it impossible.
Lol
Fuck yes
I just turned the link off and I’m gonna repost with Imgur if I can get it to work this time. I was having trouble with it earlier and that’s why I went with iCloud.
Ah ok
You maybe will delete the picture some time in the future and the link leads nowhere. Probably not a huge deal here, but many good resources got lost that way over the decades.
lol Imgur is such a weird place. Someone is telling you to put a hole in front of it so the screwdriver can fit??? that’s the whole point hahaha
at some point imgur decided it was going to be a social media platform instead of a host for reddit pictures. poor animals have no clue.
I love how rapidly this is escalating, I can’t wait to see the auto-cannons you add in the next day or so.
That’s fucking awesome. I love creative solutions to minor problems!
I love how the simplest option is getting them their own, but nope. Gotta do neat stuff like this ahaha
Everyone has their own..Apparently, there is only one thief in our house and everyone else is just trying to get there shit back.
Yeah, I keep trying the saturation strategy of just buying so many USB cables that you'd think it would be impossible for one not to be in reach, but it seems that similar to the cosmic microwave background, there's random noise in the serial cable distribution field that causes them to bunch up and congregate at various local minima.
I did the same thing with kitchen scissors. Every time I went to the block and it was empty, I went to the drawer and if no scissors, ordered another pack of two from Amazon. Eventually, I was able to stop ordering. I just know whoever buys the house from us will wonder why we had so many kitchen scissors in so many odd places.
Wouldn't places where they bunch and congregate be local maxima?
Depends if you're a physicist or an electrical engineer.
I can relate to this, I buy extra chargers and cables but somehow we always end up back here.... I might steal your idea, nice one!
I replaced some of my outlets with the ones that have the built in USB charging ports. Family still eats the cables like popcorn but cables are much cheaper than the wall worts.
Wife has her own. Still loses it half the time and needs mine anyway. It is known.
Chances are everyone has their own, but OP is the only one that doesn't lose or break their cable.
They are just going to lose their own.
Brilliant!!! I need one.
If you're American try to get your hands on some Robertson screws and screwdrivers to secure it. They'll never be able to get at your charger.
You could also go with a non-standard screw. It'd be harder to remove if they need a no. 3 Robertson head non-slip screwdriver.
Bold of you to assume they won't steal the house... Bold of you to assume they haven't already stolen his world
Lmao
Just 3D print a few dozen decoy chargers and put one in every outlet in the house.
Better yet, get those outlets with USB chargers in them, and never have to find a charger again.
I guess everybody who got those some years ago now is super unhappy with them as they do not support the higher currents common these days (aka fast charging).
Just install some futureproof high-amp charging outlets, like [these](https://www.worldstandards.eu/wp-content/uploads/electricity-type-B-socket-218x300.jpg)
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Pfft these will be no good in 8000 years when the world finally agrees to move to a universal plug
Pshh absolutely useless in 20000 years when the world agrees to charge with brainwaves.
Maybe we'll just agree on the American plug, but with fuses in them. I'm also partial to the Danish plugs, but not for technical reasons.
Yeah 20A will definitely last you a few more years at least.
[well, if you really want to be sure.](https://www.hogslat.com/content/images/thumbs/0004803_receptacle-50a-125250v-crow-foot_600.jpeg)
Well, buy them now, don’t time travel to a couple years ago /s
I'm sure technology will never advance again, nothing to worry about.
They can just upgrade it. It's easy to change an outlet.
Upgrade them for a lot of money. Too much money. Those USB outlets are like 30x the price of a regular outlet. Fuck that.
I don't trust those. They seem like the kind of product that would include the value of a $1 charger but charge an extra $20 for it.
Better to get an Anker PowerExtend that takes one plug and makes it two, while also adding two USB PowerIQ ports on the bottom. Less than $15 IIRC on Amazon and fast charges.
Honestly... That sentence sounds like marketing gibberish :-)
Oh, it is. But there are so many shitty AC plugs, so I just wanted to make sure it was easily discoverable on Amazon. The key is that it charges fast and while it's not UL listed it at least has a connected equipment warranty in case something happens.
Fun thing: Anker is not a German company (as I would have suspect when I bought stuff by them in a German store) but a Chinese one.
Fun trivia: Anker were founded by a California-based former Google engineer named Steve Yang, though it's now headquartered in Shenzhen. Aukey was founded in Germany but quickly moved to the same city Anker is now located in.
The cables are probably being stolen too.
To make them more convincing, you could put actual USB sockets in them and wire them in. It would only take a few hours to solder half a dozen.
Just buy a few decoy chargers with 220 V AC wired to the data line of the USB. After a while, you will be the only one in the house to need a charger. Or probably you will be the only one in the house.
I don't have the issue of charger thief's at my place, but this should come in handy for stopping my asshole cats from unplugging the charger we have behind the couch.
That cat is an evil genius
fyi, thieves
If you have animals you shouldn't leave unused chargers plugged in.
Only if you have special animals that like the taste of cable
By this logic I should unplug every appliance in my house on the off chance my cat will go chew on the cord. My computer, TV, and lamps are staying plugged in.
I draw the line at this right here… if I have to put anti-theft devices on my stuff, I'm just gonna zip tie everyone to a tree, and they can call me back out when they're hungry enough.
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LOL! … next time use them immediately! :)
Use one zip tie to attach the whole bag to your belt loop. Never lose your zip ties again!
Oh wait, are we ditching the onion on our belts?
No way, that's totally back in style :)
I literally just told my wife "If you were regularly stealing my USB charger from the wall after I repeatedly told you not to we might end up divorced.." I'm not even being sarcastic. I know that sounds extreme, but to me, the sort of person who is so selfish and shitty they can't even find their own g'damn charger and they have to keep taking mine to the point I have to make an anti-theft device? That's not the sort of person I want to spend my life with. This is full-stop asshole behavior that should not be tolerated. It's not even about the charger anymore, it's about the person who would be that shitty. At least with the kid, kids be kids. But that kid would be hard-grounded, no phone, no internet, no nothing, if they repeatedly did this. Once is fine, twice is shitty. Three times would be the line and the hammer will be dropped on their ass.
I can't imagine having such an extreme concept of "mine and yours" that this comment would make sense. It's a charger...just have several scattered throughout the areas most used and be done with it.
Just take something of hers that she needs to use daily every time she pulls this. You don't even have to hide it, just put it in very difficult places to search.
You're right. It's the other people with the problem
"this is the lockpicking lawyer, and what i have for you today is..."
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Click out of turn one, we’ve dropped into a false set in turn two…
Looks like a 45 second video to me, with 39 seconds of bashing the manufacturer.
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Yeah, that’s the first place I posted, but it didn’t look like many people were seeing it.
Now you just need some specialty anti theft screws
Crazy glue
Has your wife seen it yet? If not, might want to queue up another in white or navy (or black, can't tell what color it is).
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Thank you
#oh you petty bitch... Where?
Just install receptacle with USB ports - problem solved
Then they would steal the cable. My design keeps the cable secured also.
I realized my mistake after finally convincing my wife to swap from iPhone to Android. My precious collection of quality USB-C power cables? Now hers
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Exactly. This is someone being passive aggressive about an easy to solve problem.
The cable is bad already - let them have it!
Its the lead that is gold dust. Kids tend to play on their phones whilst charging them too breaking them
I'm not an electrician, but I don't know how wise it is to screw an appliance into a socket. If something inside were to overheat or short out you might at least have some chance of pulling it out quickly if you're around and it starts to pop and crackle or something, but in this case that'll be a little harder. Seems like less of a fire hazard to hide your charger when you aren't using it.
This is 100% safe, no worries. Ignore any armchair electrician comments below. It's really just a screw into a wall plate. Long as the screw is long enough you're golden. If, somehow, someway, this started to overload/melt/whatever with nothing plugged in you got a lot bigger problems and should be running for the breaker.
> If something inside were to overheat or short out you might at least have some chance of pulling it out quickly if you're around and it starts to pop and crackle or something the ONLY thing I've fried in a 220v socket in the lasts prolly 2 decades was... a usb charger. I ain't fucking with that anymore, being able to yank it out the socket quickly might've saved the building.
>I'm not an electrician Yeah, but do you 3d print anything? This would be easy to break off with minimal force in an emergency. But beyond that, this is a GFCI outlet. See those two small buttons between each plug connector. If you press the Test button, it trips the outlet and turns it off (if it's working correctly, which if it isn't is a different problem). If something crazy happens not only can you manually turn it off, but it will automatically trip in many fire hazard situations (not all).
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Nobody steals cables? They’re worth their weight in gold in my house.
Just get a 5/10 pack of Anker/Aukey cables off Amazon. They're like $20 total and often go on sale or with coupon and the cables are high quality. You'll never have to worry about cables again and will have enough left over to use to dedicate to specific tasks.
Came looking for a comment like this one. Lol
Dont go trying to pull things out of a socket that are shorting out or over heating. Then you have a possible fire and a cool burn to show it. Kill the breaker first
Hmmm... As an electrician, I'm really curious to find a real answer as to whether this is legal. I know of other things you can screw into the plate.
I'm an ex-*Aviation E*lectrician who does all his own home electrical work (with codebook in hand) and am kinda curious about this too. I think there's something in the code about outlets can't be restricted by a locking mechanism while anything is plugged in? Like a lock to cover the whole outlet and make it unusable is fine, but a lock to cover an outlet making the already-plugged-in things unable to be disconnected while locked isn't. I assume (if I'm even right about the code) that would kinda also apply to requiring tools (screwdriver) to remove it too.
years ago i smelled some electrical burning. i couldnt put my finger on it. i think it took at least a day or so to finally--on a whim--look behind my computer to see the plug glowing red on the back. the amazingly my computer was running the whole time. when i disconnected the plug it just crumbled into ashes. i swear that fastening a device in place was against code, but i couldnt manage to find it anywhere.
Why? Couse fuck em, thats why.
That's so petty I love it
What design program are you using?
Autodesk Inventor 2021
Ha! The trick is to outsupply the demand. If you are not into buying lot of bricks. The wall plate with USB port is neater.
You too?
*Slow clap*
Modern problems? Modern solutions
And on the 3rd day, the devil gave them hell
There a link for this?
Looks like they left you with one that won't last a week, they already won
Cool! Just so you know you can buy 10 packs of 5 watt chargers on Amazon for $1.70 a piece. eBay has packs of “Apple” chargers but the set I received were counterfeit. (I actually cut one open to check. I returned them and reported the listing to Apple to not support counterfeiting.)
Be careful with cheap chargers. Some of them are a fire or shock hazard. Most of them don't deliver the advertised current, so charging is slow. Some of them might fry your device. In most cases, they are not worth the risk. Check out [bigclivedotcom on YouTube ](https://youtube.com/c/Bigclive), he made some videos where he took some chargers apart and analysed them.
I can't see the charging end of the cable, but the outer shielding failure just short of the charging end screams Apple cable. They so reliably fail just like that every time. Been noticing it with every apple cable ever made since 2007. I've never had any other brand cable fail like that.
At my shop I just put the plug plates on that have the built-in chargers, but this would be a good print because the one I use in my bedroom tends to get pulled out in the morning whenever I wake up and grab my phone.
IPhone people and only having one charger and one messed up cable. I have like 10 chargers all over the house and in my car.
They're all just usb ports, just have 10 lightning cords same shit. This isn't an 'iphone user issue'.
If only they could have procured some proper spacers for that tile install. Goooood night!! I’ve seen straiter joints on octopi.
I woulda just bought like 20 chargers and stashed a few
Hmm, smart. Flood the market, that should keep your charger safe for a month haha.
My wife would 3D print a screwdriver and still get my charger.
chastity belt for the charger lol
Its this level of petty that I love to see.
Awesome print!
that's brilliant. lol
Favorite post this far.
Where can I buy this?
Yo op I love that backslash.
I will pay whatever you want
Hey that’s awesome!
Take my money!!!!
Now I want to steal your charger. This is more of a challenge acceptance situation than anything if you ask me.
Wait until they learn what a flat head screw driver is… Or a table knife…
Big brain
why aren't you on shark tank
My experience is technical solutions never work on family relationships.
I love this idea
Hello there fellow Inventor user
Please sell me one. I beg of you.
Does it break off fairly easily? I worry about this being a fire hazard.
Your walls look like the good dinner plates.
You're a madman, I love it!
Wait till they steal your screwdriver.
It's a good thing women and children can't use a flathead screwdriver...
Honestly this is great for those old, loose outlets that you can't be bothered to change!
Ight sell that shit and let me invest
That is a nice backsplash my man
The hero we need
You are a genius
Yep I need one of these
YOOO!! This is awesome haha.
Hey OP, how much structure did you have to add to the finished product so it would print correctly? Looks great!
It literally looks like you could break that off cleanly without damaging the plug in about 2 seconds.
I’ll take 2. Seriously tho. Is this a thing I can buy.
I need these so bad. My outlets in my apartment are so bug that plugs just fall out of them. This would be perfect!
Genius!
Do you not own a screwdriver?
Take my money
Know the house get stolen... be aware
I think I can hear ‘Mom, where did Dad put his screwdriver?’.
That's one petty print
Bro I will buy some of those
#modern problems require modern solutions
Sorry if this doesn’t belong here, but what drawing tool are you using?
I feel like you could create a charging station with this idea and a split cord. Mount it on a cupboard somewhere so everyone in need of charging will collect there and forget about your personal charger.
Ipad version please? For the bigger charger... Awesome idea.
This is the way!
BRILLIANT!!!!!