原创 Power2U... What a brilliant idea!

Here's a picture of our household. I have an iPhone and an iPad. My wife has an iPhone and an iPad. And our 17-year old son has an iPhone and an iPad. The incredible amount of use we get out of these devices means that they all need to be recharged on a daily basis.

I keep my chargers in my backpack and I tend to recharge my iPhone/iPad here in my office (plugging them in plays a small part of my "getting going morning rituals" while my computers are powering up and the coffee is brewing).

By comparison, every evening my wife and my son play an endlessly complicated game of "hide and seek with chargers," with accusations flying as to who moves whose charger and cries of "Well, this one is certainly mine!" Quickly followed by "No, it certainly is NOT!"

But wait, there's more... We have an open-plan family room that merges with a breakfast area and leads into the kitchen. All told, we must have close to 25 to 30 power outlets in this combined area. This makes it all the more surprising that it's the dual power outlet on the side of the kitchen counter forming the entrance to the kitchen into which they always plug their iPad/iPhone power adapters.

When they aren't using them, the cables and adapters are often left hanging out of the power socket trailing on the floor, just inviting people to step on them and crunch them up.

And it gets even worse, because every evening before he goes to bed, my son drags out the ironing board to iron his clothes for the following day. Of course he doesn't do this in the laundry room (that would be too easy). Oh no, for reasons known only to himself, he has to place the ironing board on the side of the kitchen counter forming the entrance to the kitchen. Do you see where this is leading...

The solution...at last
So he pulls out one of the iPad/iPhone power cords and plugs in the iron. When he's finished (if we are lucky), he unplugs the iron and puts it and the ironing board away. But he never remembers to plug the iPad/iPhone connector back in. This explains why my wife keeps on calling me from her office telling me that although her iPhone was plugged in all night it's strangely run out of charge (Duh!).

The reason I'm waffling on about this here is that I just heard about the solution to many of these problems – the Power2U AC/USB in-wall power adapter from the guys and gals as Newer Technology.

In addition to the two regular power sockets, this little beauty also has two USB ports capable of charging iPhones and iPads. In addition to not having the iPad/iPhone chargers laying on the floor, this means my son could do his ironing without disconnecting his mother's iPhone (strangely, he never unplugs anything that he is charging).

I don't know about you, but I think this is a brilliant idea – clean/good looking, simple, and incredibly effective (much like myself :-)