I’m not an electrician, nor do I play one on TV, but this I like. It’s a re-designed UK electrical plug, one that’s much thinner and far more friendly to today’s portable, hi-tech toys than the ...

It can be really frustrating when you're hooking up an appliance or gadget with a three-prong plug only to realize the extension cord or outlet you're plugging it into only has two prongs. After all, ...

Tom Scott runs a YouTube series simply titled "Things You Might Not Know." Can you guess what it's about? His most recent video, which comes to us via Digg, extols the virtues of design and safety as ...

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