Cool USB Cables

[shapelessed]

Call me a magician but I have NEVER had a USB-C cable break in the last 6 years.

[onlymuppet]

Bonus points for using them, they’ll keep dust out of your charging ports. It’s less likely someone at work will “borrow” the cables when you’re not around. You can buy multiple cables and you won’t need to fiddle with the phone in the car to plug it in properly.
The down side is those with the swivel aren’t as durable as the regular ones. The internal contacts tend to wear and tarnish after a while.

[immaturetechnerd]

“that i know you keep in the junk drawer in your kitchen”

he’s in my walls 💀

[cadegamer]

Never thought id see Stevie T here, but there he is, in a gif

[kilianmaigrot]

For anyone wondering, they're from a company called Sanwa Supply and are not yet available outside of Japan (but will probably in a near future since a bunch of their products are on Amazon). It's around 16usd for a 1m one and 18 for 1, 8m.

[jeffreyblack]

I would say it is a fairly simple thing limiting it.
The problem they are trying to achieve requires them to be able to rotate it freely without the cords tangling up, and doing so in a very small space.
The standard way to do that is a series of concentric rings.
For the bare minimum they need 4 wires, and that gets them USB 2. For USB 3 A, you need an extra 5 wires, for 9 in total (but you might get by with 8. For USB C, you should have 18 separate wires. And for each you also need the shield.

Trying to cram all that into a tiny space simply wont work.

[the.dirt.man.]

Those mag safe leave in ones are a godsend when you have usbc and lightning and microusb to mess with at the same time

[tntthekill]

Finally. This is so needed that it feels like magic now that it's a thing

[wwooaahh]

Stevie T seen, my radar went wild for true musician

[jaredmckano]

Was NOT expecting an old clip of Steve Terreberry within the first few seconds of this vid

[computingwithcoffee]

The limit to data speed is the pins in the rotating bit. To make it more reliable it is basically just the necessary data pins in the connector aka usb 2.0 . Anything faster over those rotating connectors will probably also result in frequent lost connections.

[WolvenSpectre]

Yeah, those magnetic chargers don't advertise the USB 2.0 transfer speeds and I had to learn about that the hard way. However plugging the magnetic end into the USB C Port means you are not constantly ploughing and unplugging things from the port, but only when you need the speed. It also keeps the port clean. BIG upsides, little downsides.

[vladthe_cat]

I designed something exactly like this but for the headphone jack.
Never produced anything, but I probably still have the CAD file on Tinkercad

[stCallipostle]

Crazy that enough transfer speed to completely fill the mobile device you're using with stuff in 5 minutes is inadequate now

[hotrodhammee]

I appreciate the ancient Stevie T clip

[n-su]

now you leave my funked lightening cable drawer out of this

[geekjokes]

the junk drawer with all my past chargers and broken earplugs is _not_ in the kitchen, thank you very much

[zushiba]

I reviewed one on Amazon recently that at least had 100w fast charging capability. I'm slowly working my way through all my junk and converting the connectors to them.

[Topo]

"It's supposed to bend that way"
Archer: Phrasing!

[Don_Julioo]

i just bought one of these flexible magnetic adapters for my existing usb c cable. cheap and works fine