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Tag results: Cables

Braids of Nylon, Everywhere

How braided nylon became such a hip part of our charging cables. Long story short: people like it when their cables feel like rope!

Donglevision

Pondering the many ways that dongles have taken over our lives, for better and for worse. One port will never rule them all, apparently.

Not-So-Missed Connections

Just like your pile of old chargers, the world of mobile connectors was always messy. Standards did not help. Will regulation?

Tech’s Biggest Racket

Why Apple’s MagSafe connectors are both incredibly great and incredibly wasteful—in that they’re expensive, proprietary, and break very easily.
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