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For laptops*, their PSU seems to be positioned in the middle of the
cable and the cable and PSU itself seem to be black.
My idea is to make the cable (both the thick one and the thin one)
and the PSU block itself a vivid yellow and black alternating diagonal
stripe pattern.
This will a]
help visibility, possibly preventing a trip hazard, and b]
encourage people to tuck the cabling somewhere tidy, as it would
look messy dangling across the floor like that, and nobody would
want to tolerate that - unless the carpet is the same pattern.
* other than proper Apple MacBooks - which is ironic, as the others
don't tend to have Magsafe connectors like MacBooks have.
Orange Mains Cable
http://www.maplin.c...23m4&C=SO&U=strat15
[21 Quest, Apr 23 2009]
Black and yellow diagonal warning stripes
http://www.istockph...61086&refnum=782833
(iStock photo) [Ian Tindale, Apr 23 2009]
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call in the experts! [xenzag, Apr 24 2009]
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A very thin stripey cable might not be visible enough and, as suggested, this doesn't solve the issue for the stripy yellow-and-black carpet owning demographic. How about a power cable with integrated fairy lights? |
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Maybe it could hiss when it thinks someone is about to trip over it? After all it would be marked up as a snake. |
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[-] You're just jealous of Mac's cableless power over Wifi. |
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//Mac's cableless power over Wifi.//
I was R&D for that - Cynical Testing dept. Doesn't work y'know. Not on Friday. You want it WHEN?? |
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I'm curious as to whether colored mains cables already exist. I guess my question is this: what is a mains cable? I have a vibrant yellow ethernet cable and a bright blue USB cable plugged into my desktop PC tower. I'm sure if you searched a bit on Google you can find just about any cable you need available in different colors. Maybe not the specific pattern you're looking for, but any bright color would serve the same purpose. (neutral) pending further research. |
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Edit: I'm typing this on my phone, which doesn't let me copy/paste links, but a Google search on the phrase "yellow mains cables" turned up a bright orange one a few links down from the top one. Others that my phone would not let me open said 'green and yellow sheath' in their summary lines. |
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Searching a bit on google? That's a wild idea - I honestly
never thought of that. I can almost see how that could affect
the results of my internet research - I might even try that
one day. |
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It's not about the colour, obviously. It's about the hazard
warning pattern. It's the fat diagonal black/yellow stripe
pattern. |
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Slide on short sections of yellow heat-shink tubing on to a black cable, and shrink 'em in place. |
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Well, yes, and also keep a cow instead of buying milk in
shops. Simply grow your own potatoes instead of going to
the chip shop (unless you're after a saveloy too). Merely
rearrange small n-doped and p-doped areas of silicon on a
silicon wafer substrate to create your own quad-core cpu to
assemble your own rather spiffy laptop. |
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Rather than making the insulation into a warning pattern, if you removed the insulation completely then at least people would only trip over it once. |
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...or even better, turn the power lead into a Warning Theremin. Get the transformer to modulate the power signal with a weak RF signal, add some Theremin stuff and hey presto! It could then be set up to auto-adjust to silence but for the eerie sound to start up when someone aproaches the power lead. |
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Nice work, Ian. I like it. |
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** laptops (other than MacBooks) have the transformer in the centre simply because the cable with the power plug on it (the detachable one) is often the standard two-pin configuration. This cable can be any length (indeed, I've cut one to be a couple of inches to minimise overall length) so the manufacturer of the transformer has to go with a reasonable length cable from laptop to allow for any length of secondary cable. MacBooks don't have this dilemma because they're all bloody proprietary (although well designed). |
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[hippo] Ah, safety via evolution ... |
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Wrap snakes around the cables. Deterent and in some cases proximity detection built in. They could be trained to wrap multiple cables and thereby act like cable tidys. |
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Yellow and black striped snakes, or yellow snakes and black snakes intertwined? |
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Or longitudinally excessive, flat wasps. |
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