New uk plug for apple!!!!!!

[djellison]

The plastic covering that flaps out when it's plugged in, is too easy to pull back so a small toddler with wet fingers could quite easily plug itself into the mains.

Really? How do you know? Have you used one? Do you know how hard or easy it is to pull back? And do you realise that from the plug going inward, the first part of the pins are insulated anyway - so you couldn't get flesh-on-metal even with the flaps fully pulled back.

wet fingers + any electrical socket are a bad idea. This plug is no better or worse in that regard.

 

[Peterkro]

Really? How do you know? Have you used one? Do you know how hard or easy it is to pull back? And do you realise that from the plug going inward, the first part of the pins are insulated anyway - so you couldn't get flesh-on-metal even with the flaps fully pulled back.

wet fingers + any electrical socket are a bad idea. This plug is no better or worse in that regard.

U.K. sockets are the safest regularly used type I've seen, to the point where the so called child proof plug-ins you see advertisers pushing actually make them less safe.

 

[Mark-Mac-Attack]

U.K. sockets are the safest regularly used type I've seen, to the point where the so called child proof plug-ins you see advertisers pushing actually make them less safe.

How do you mean? The plastic blanking plate type things?

 

[Prof.]

How 'bout you Brits just adapt the US plug style?

 

[Peterkro]

How do you mean? The plastic blanking plate type things?

Yes, just three plastic prongs with a flat plastic bit:

 

[adder7712]

Aren't most sockets have a on/off switch?

 

[zeeflyboy]

This design is just ingenius...

The girl that designed this plug deserves to make a fortune! I would use those plugs in a hearbeat.

Right... who at apple uk do we send this video to then eh? lol.

 

[cjmillsnun]

How 'bout you Brits just adapt the US plug style?

240 Volts through that flimsy thing? (the US duckhead) and it's not even fused

Not good with our ring main wiring

 

[nick9191]

Would be even cooler if they could somehow get rid of the plastic flappy bits. So it would literally just be the three prongs.

Amazing concept though.

 

[cjmillsnun]

Would be even cooler if they could somehow get rid of the plastic flappy bits. So it would literally just be the three prongs.

Amazing concept though.

The 3 pins on their own wouldn't pass BS1363... The plastic flaps are an essential.

 

[kolax]

Incredibly painful stepping on an upturned plug. This would prevent that.

But it does look exceptionally flimsy - not sure how sturdy it'd be. When it is dealing with 240v, you can't mess around.

If it was really sturdy, and bits didn't snap off easily, then could be the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1c8g6dz8PU&NR=1&feature=fvwp

That's it in action. It'd be far better if there was a button that made the flaps spring out and turned the two pins round. Having to open both flats and turn the pins is tedious. I just want to plug it in, not mess around with it.