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The Royal College of Art's graduate show has opened, and this year, the show-stopper was a plug. Min-Kyu Choi impressed every passer by with his neat, apparently market-ready plug that folds down to the width of an Apple MacBook Air. "The MacBook Air is the world's thinnest laptop ever. However, here in the UK, we still use the world's biggest three-pin plug," says Choi.

Choi's plug is just 10mm wide when it is folded. To unfold it, the two live pins swivel 90 degrees, and the plastic surround folds back around the pins so the face of the plug looks the same as a standard UK plug. The idea produced a spin off, too. Choi created a multi-plug adaptor, a compact standard plug sized unit with space for three folded plugs to slot in, as well as one that charges USB devices.













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absolute genious, That choi will be a millionaire shortly.

Brilliant Idea,

Just need to get them on to your every day devices. Doesn't look DIY friendly

They didnt think much of my idea though

Well of course they didn't; both wires are the same colour which obviously contravenes IEE wiring regulations(BS7671) 17th.edition.

I want to see the inside. It's probably not rewireable. Where does the fuse fit? It'll cost a fortune to get it BS and ASTA approved. Very clever and neat idea though!

Very clever!

im not to fussed, looks a bit flimsy to me, it would last 5 minutes with me

quality. genius that. nd am guessing the fuse goes underneath the little red cirlce's on the plug i want 1

I want lots!

5th and 6th pictures dont add up the wires will have to come out of the multi upwards looking at the earth pin

The problem is that in picture 5, the adaptor is being held in the wrong orientation; 180 degrees out.

Strange he did not notice that, if these are meant to be publicity pictures!

if you turn the plug you also have to turn the thin the thin plug which will send the the wires out the thin plug upwards not like the last picy which go downwards

I think not. Look at the very first pic. The bigger gap is between the 2 live pins, the smaller gap is between a live pin & the earth pin. The adaptor in pic.5 just wants turning 180 deg. then the thin plug will fit. As pictured, the plug wont fit into the adaptor because the pin spacing is wrong.