Comments on: Reader Finds: The Power Squid http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/24/reader-finds-the-power-squid/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:50:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Nate Bezanson http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/24/reader-finds-the-power-squid/#comment-15763 Nate Bezanson Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:38:50 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/24/reader-finds-the-power-squid/#comment-15763 The "outlet saver plus" is pretty cool too, it has a passthrough female piggybacked on the male end, plus the female on the end of the footlong cord. I have a few IEC-plug computer power cords with those passthrough plugs, and they're great when traveling. Picture yourself at the airport gate, having arrived like 6 hours early to deal with security, and now with LOTS of time to kill before boarding. You and two other laptop users are eying the sole outlet. You're sizing each other up... okay, the guy with the Dell sees your Toughbook and knows that you could take him. The chick with the Fujitsu, on the other hand, you'd rather not piss off. Glances are exchanged. Then you remember! Reaching into your pack, you pull out the piggyback plug and hold it aloft. Faces smile with comprehension. You plug in. She plugs in. He plugs in. Everyone has green battery lights. There will be no blood spilled today. The “outlet saver plus” is pretty cool too, it has a passthrough female piggybacked on the male end, plus the female on the end of the footlong cord. I have a few IEC-plug computer power cords with those passthrough plugs, and they’re great when traveling.

Picture yourself at the airport gate, having arrived like 6 hours early to deal with security, and now with LOTS of time to kill before boarding. You and two other laptop users are eying the sole outlet. You’re sizing each other up… okay, the guy with the Dell sees your Toughbook and knows that you could take him. The chick with the Fujitsu, on the other hand, you’d rather not piss off. Glances are exchanged.

Then you remember! Reaching into your pack, you pull out the piggyback plug and hold it aloft. Faces smile with comprehension. You plug in. She plugs in. He plugs in. Everyone has green battery lights. There will be no blood spilled today.

]]> By: Patrick Fitzgerald http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/24/reader-finds-the-power-squid/#comment-15759 Patrick Fitzgerald Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:05:41 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/24/reader-finds-the-power-squid/#comment-15759 And if you want to use your existing plug or power strip with those "wall warts" look for something marketed as "outlet saver". It's basically a 1ft extension cable. And if you want to use your existing plug or power strip with those “wall warts” look for something marketed as “outlet saver”. It’s basically a 1ft extension cable.

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