Comments on: Brilliant UK electrical plug concept saves space

By: Gag Halfrunt

Gag Halfrunt — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:32:41 +0000

Just to be clear, Min-Kyu Choi is a man. The narration sounds like a voice synthesiser. Here he is on BBC Television speaking with a strong Korean accent and looking rather nervous.

By: James Turnbull

James Turnbull — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:06:18 +0000

Thought everybody would be happy to hear that Min-Kyu Choi’s design has just won the Brit Insurance design of the year prize:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arta.....sign-prize

By: Magic Tips

Magic Tips — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:36:51 +0000

Fantastic! This is one of the best ideas I’ve seen in years!

By: Jq

Jq — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:36:08 +0000

The U.k. isn’t the only country that uses 3 pin Plugs, so it is exportable aswell. She needs to have a firm patent on it and a damn good lawyer to work out an Iron tight contract and make the fortune that is deserved by creating something so useful. Dyson, Branson british entrepreneurs GET on board with this!

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:04:54 +0000

Brilliant idea but I cannot envisage our tight fisted businesses investing in this without ripping off the inventor for vast wedges of money. She deserves all the credit for her ‘thinking outside the box’. The manufacturers didn’t invent it and the inventor even went to the extent of designing the manufacturing process for them so its a simple process.
I couldn’t help notice how modest the inventor sounded when describing the invention and development process. All credit to someone who sounds like they put the problem solving solution before personal rewards.
I wonder if there is a charitable fund available to fund third party developments? Maybe John Dyson could help her?

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By: Jurgen

Jurgen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:52:12 +0000

That’s fantastic. Just another proof that the very best idea’s are often simple by nature. I love it.

By: Chris Wood

Chris Wood — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:21:25 +0000

I’ll eat my hat if this doesn’t make it to the market. Any of the Dragons in the Den would be falling over themselves to invest in this.

By: Tammy Morales

Tammy Morales — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:26:53 +0000

Brilliant – I to can not wait for this to be introduced on this side of the pond.

Thanks for sharing

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By: lammy

lammy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:25:47 +0000

We can’t use the euro plug as we use ring main circuits in the UK which have up to 40A flowing through them. We therefore need heavy duty plugs with fuses built into them for protection. If we switched to the Euro plug we’d also have to rewire all our houses, basically.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:45:27 +0000

The thing with this is it’s such an obvious idea but it takes people like this to think outside the box to acctually invent it… Genious

By: Tim Kenyon

Tim Kenyon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:05:01 +0000

Truly awesome idea and design. I applaud the inventor and PRAY that this goes to development then gets applied to all devices retroactively.

This design looks like it will save money, time, and space, and – most importantly – reduce the amount of plastic, copper, and other metals currently used in manufacturing big chunky plugs.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:03:15 +0000

If I recall everything in the UK is 240 volts 50 Hz?

By: Wellington Grey

Wellington Grey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:47:30 +0000

I really like the folding plug, anything to save space.

That being said, I lived in the UK for six years and one of the things that I loved was their plug.

Yes, it’s big, but it’s really satisfying to use. They click into place in the wall and never fall out. (I’m looking at you, ungrounded US plugs)

By: CoCreatr

CoCreatr — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:00:59 +0000

Great small cool hot design.

Re: fire or shorting hazard in this concept?

Flash answer: No. The concept is non-conductive.

Honest estimate: No.

Reason: Before the new space-saver plug can be offered on the market it needs to be safety-tested and approved by an independent 3rd party test laboratory. Like all devices connected to hazardous mains voltage.

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