This is a simple and brilliant solution to a problem that I've taken for granted so much that I'd forgotten that it was a problem.
As more and more technology works it's way into our lives, homes, pockets and bags, power is a problem, and UK plugs are unnecessarily bulky. If you've ever changed a fuse then you will have seen how little of the space in a plug is actually used.
Years ago, that relatively small waste of space wasn't really an issue, but things are different. In my living room for example, I have a PC, a laptop, a cable TV box, two games consoles (a Playstation 3 and a Nintendo Wii), a stereo, a TV, a modem, a wireless router, a printer, and an iPod/iPhone charger.
Those are all fairly standard items- I've also got some additional kit for an electric guitar, a lamp, a baby monitor, a digital photo frame and a cordless telephone that doesn't work (well, either the phone doesn't work or the phone line has died, but as I don't need it, it isn't worth the bother of finding out where the problem is. But for some reason, if I want Virgin Media's TV and broadband, I have to have a phone line...) Oh, and a charger for an SLR camera battery, and a standard battery charger.
So that's eighteen plugs that need to be connected to the power supply, and sixteen sets of wasted space in each plug. So you need plug boards- which are also bigger than they really need to be (because the plugs that plug into the adapters are bigger than they need to be in the first place.)
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