The worst gadget ever supplies mains power over USB

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The list of people who are disappointed in Boing Boing has been updated.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ptOCAuEHRqu3jCpE7ThBwHdl1CfEHcevDnVz_abTxvg/edit?usp=sharing

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This needs to be done. Preferably not in my house. :grinning:

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Whatā€™s the big deal? This product clearly fulfills the requirement of delivering plenty of DC current through several USB connectors in a conveniently small plastic form factor. Iā€™m sure there are plenty of valid uses for this.

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How am I not on this list? :wink:

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And, on occasion, we get a good reminder of why they call it ā€˜the smoke testā€™ā€¦

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The explosions?

Definitely the explosions.

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Are you disappointed that youā€™re not on the list?

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I feel left out :frowning:

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You canā€™t get on the list unless you are disappointed.

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Iā€™m disappointed my past disappointed either didnā€™t get notice, or wasnā€™t disappointing enough to make The List.

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Metadisappointment is not eligible for the list, but someone could make a list of people who are disappointed not to be on the list of people who are disappointed with Boing Boing.

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Iā€™m so disappointing Iā€™m not on that list.

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I thought this was going to be an article where this was a stupid feature, not a bug. Where some clever person figured out a way to send full mains power by a multiplexing USBs or something, kind of the reverse of broadband over mains.

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exactly right!

seems like it is actually a not half bad unit, this one just had a faulty component, one that was no fault of the unit design. that same transformer flaw would affect any unit from any manufacturer that used that transformer.

TRANSFORMERSā€¦more then meets the eye. right? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

yepā€¦this highlights the importance of automated quality control testing on electronics units.

If the list were opt-in it would be much larger.

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Iā€™ll see you that and raise you an etherkiller: http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/

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Defective guillotine?

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Iā€™m pretty sure that, thanks to you, Cantor is now disappointed in Boing Boing,

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Many customers in the decapitation market are really unhappy about that fact; but the guillotine is an exemplar of the genre in terms of reliability, repeatability, simplified operator training, and low total cost of ownership.

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