Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
70 comments
WooShell

@NanoRaptor USB-PD 110V.. the standard we've all been waiting for.

John Mueller

@NanoRaptor Now if only there were a way of connecting a bunch of these to a single socket ...

Todd Vierling :verifiedenby:

@dragonarchitect @NanoRaptor
Despite only being art, this belongs in @foone's cursed USB collection

Cadbury Moose

@foone @ToddVierling @dragonarchitect @NanoRaptor We've had fibreoptic over high voltage distribution networks in the UK for quite some time now. (Admittedly they wound it round the earth conductor from pylon top to pylon top, but the thought was there.) Ethernet over 132/275/400kV - who needs an Etherkiller when you have that? 3:O)>

number137

a Schuko dual-PS/2 with a jack plug

as integrated mouse+keyboard+audio sockets that were used with IBM PCs in the 80s/90s

@NanoRaptor

Hugo Mills

@NanoRaptor Is that the equivalent of FizzBuzz, but for hardware engineer interviews? Call it... FizzBang?

Michael Ossmann

@NanoRaptor guess I'll be changing the LUNA USB port orientation now

jaseg

@mossmann @NanoRaptor I guess that would be the new USB 4 Gen 3x2x2 80Gbit/s standard according to their versioning scheme

Tony Bark :pawified:

@NanoRaptor Pretty sure it'd be a lot safer than what we have now.

Graham Murray

@NanoRaptor this one makes me very uncomfortable ๐Ÿ˜†

Kroc Camen

@NanoRaptor โ€œUniversalโ€, and yet still not compatible with European Dual USB-C sockets that use a shared ground pin

DELETED

@revk @NanoRaptor ha! I had this hideous dongle for a while when I used a MacBook Proโ€ฆ

janusfox

@NanoRaptor Send mains directly to ground. It's the only way to be sure.

Tyler Loch

@NanoRaptor This still outputs 5V. It just also sends a lot of extra volts at the same time.

Doofus Canadensis

@NanoRaptor why is this not behind a content warningโ€ฝ

Daniel Smith

@NanoRaptor Was this a case of inspiration, or parallel development?

xkcd.com/2493/

Alka

@NanoRaptor no grounding pin USB-C? What a shame.

Tofu Golem

@NanoRaptor
The committee of engineers that comes up with the names for new USB connectors have given us gems like "USB 3.2 gen 2."

I shudder to think what they would come up with to identify this one.

Shay

@NanoRaptor I now feel terrible the MacBookโ€™s USB C sockets are not perpendicular

dakonr :verified:

@NanoRaptor no joke, DELL Laptops are using dual USB-C for their Dockingstations /cc @sigmasternchen

Luna Corbden

@NanoRaptor @cstross Too bad the name โ€œFireWireโ€ is already taken!

mjfgates

@NanoRaptor Standard dual phone charger. Why is everyone getting so salty about it?

jackson

@NanoRaptor there's an xkcd for this
and usb hubs with 2 usb c ports made for macbooks

Edwin๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ™€

@NanoRaptor and such an elegant minimalist form factor ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿ™‚

Pixel Refresh

@NanoRaptor As someone who is a device, this is making me upset and very uncomfortable.

Felipe :anonymous:

@NanoRaptor wait for apple's triple lightning thunderbolt port

Go Up