Some damn fine design work

[xela]

I am something of a design junkie, always on the lookout for objects where a need is met with both engineering elegance and appeal to the senses.

Anyone who's ever plugged something in to a wall outlet in the UK has noticed that UK power plugs are big and bulky and pretty much unavoidably ugly. Royal College of Art student Min-Kyu Choi thought this was a problem that needed solving. The result is simply brilliant.

Yet another reason to wish I could live in England: So I could replace my ugly plugs with these when they reach the market....

(Hat-tip to nakor, inasmuch as it's his fault that I was skimming Joel Raymond's twitter feed, where I found this.)

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[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

Isn't it though? I also got a kick out of the videos on the student's web site, http://www.minkyu.co.uk/Site/Product/Entries/2009/4/20_Folding_Plug_System.html (one partway down, the other at the bottom).

While nowhere near as much a space-saver, I would nevertheless be all over this if someone were to license it for the North American market.