Rozetkus power strip just made yours look lame

Heck. Yes. Sure, we might have absolutely zero use for a powerstrip chock full of CEE 7/16 europlugs, but we just chucked all our current powerstrips out of our 4th story windows anyways -- even those cute little PowerSquid units can't compete. The new Rozetkus strip comes to us courtesy of those Art Lebedev design crazies responsible for the Optimus line, which has had us drooling for years. Of course, there's no word on any production plans for this unit, and a US version seems quite out of the question given the basic design idea of 12 low-power plugs pluggable in any configuration you see fitting. Oh, Art Lebedev, you taunt us so! One quick note before we split to remedy our newfound powerstrip situation: Lebedev would like all of you geometrically disinclined folks out there to know that these plugs don't work diagonally. You never can be too careful.

[Cade @ Oct 9th 2006 8:53PM]

Don't europlugs still have +/- ends and do something like overheat if you put it in backwards?

[Mike @ Oct 10th 2006 9:54AM]

No.

[Cade @ Oct 9th 2006 8:53PM]

Don't europlugs still have +/- ends and do something like overheat if you put it in backwards?

[theChad @ Oct 9th 2006 8:58PM]

Maybe if instead of round holes crosses were used American plugs might work. Polarized plugs could be a pain though.

[Lt_Ladle @ Oct 9th 2006 11:18PM]

hahaha
http://www.myspace.com/zefrank
just watch the video near the top
:)
then of course go to www.zefrank.com

[geehal @ Oct 9th 2006 9:02PM]

That's the genius behind this, they just alternate +/- so anywhere you plug its ok. You can't physically plug them diagonally either because its too wide.

[ED @ Oct 9th 2006 9:09PM]

I would like all of you gramatically disinclined folks out there to know that the following sentence is missing a couple of words:
"Lebedev would like all of you geometrically disinclined folks out there that these plugs don't work diagonally."

[mb @ Oct 9th 2006 9:16PM]

verbum sapienti sat

verbs are for weaklings!

[Jeff @ Oct 9th 2006 9:17PM]

It will be released next December, but instead of a whole grid of plugs it will only have two, it will cost $300, and it will die after a year of standard use.

[dfreccia @ Oct 9th 2006 9:23PM]

This is a slick design, and pretty straightforward. Think of the grid as a chessboard or a checkerboard: if you pick any two squares in a row, one will be red and one will be black. In this case, it is the same idea, but with alternating holes being energized.

[ugomegoweallgo @ Oct 9th 2006 9:40PM]

Why is this better than the power squid? At least that helps with the problem of wall-warts. Notice that the fat white plug is sitting off to the side, looking forlorn. It doesn't want to plug into that thing because it's fat and will take up too many spaces. It knows that some obsessive-compulsive freak will burn his house down in fury because there were wasted holes under the white plug's folds of fat. How horrible. This thing's no better than a dog full of buttholes. And it's uglier. What's with the square ID and generic texturing? C'mon art-people, there have been innovations in plastic that would be much better for expressing yourself than this hunk of fimo, carved into an ashtray for mummy (who's a total chain smoker, by the way) by a 3-year-old cripple.

[fatecreatr @ Oct 9th 2006 9:48PM]

"B 9." "Miss." "E 7." "Miss." "B 10." "Hit, you sank my Europlug."

[James Whited @ Oct 9th 2006 10:32PM]

I can see it now, some kids starts playing battleship with this, and it might go like this, A1, miss, B5, You sunk my BZZZZZZZZZZZT, and he's fried. One smoking, smoldering kids left sitting there.

[Motoi @ Oct 9th 2006 10:27PM]

Looks extremely convenient for musicians as well. With all of the cables lying around, this could do a great job in organizing.

[Foof @ Oct 9th 2006 11:28PM]

I could use this for my Nabaztags. But wait, they're brick-type plugs, so they'd still end up blocking 6-8 holes if they're not plugged into the edge. Darn.

[Jason @ Oct 10th 2006 1:48AM]

If we get this then we also have to change all our electronics power cords to the cool colors for the right image. Don't think it would look quite so cool with all black plugs.

[Bob @ Oct 10th 2006 4:35AM]

Thanks to somebody called pythagoras I am fairly certain they won't fit in diagonally! Problem solved.

[LeJupp @ Oct 11th 2006 6:38AM]

@Bob: I don't think that Pythagoras INVENTED the fact that the diagonale of a square shape is 41% longer than it's edges, he only discoverd it. So without Pythagoras, we would still be unable to put a plug in that thing diagonally, we just wouldn't know why it doesn't fit ;-)

[Andrew @ Oct 10th 2006 5:52AM]

Ok this has 25 holes. Each plug needs 2 holes. Therefore if you plug in 12 plugs you will have one hole left over that serves no use other than to be a hazard to small children with pointy objects.

They should of made it 6x6 or 4x4 to eliminate this design flaw.

[arccoyote @ Oct 10th 2006 6:17AM]

Andrew - That's the genius of it. 6x6 is impractical (too big, and 18 plugs could pop a circuit!), 4x4 is too small (only 8 plugs), but 5x5 lets you have 12 plugs and one open hole. Assuming the contacts are far enough down to keep little fingers out, that one open hole has a very practical use...

Each hole has a blue LED ring. Even when it's full, that one hole is the POWER LIGHT!

Freakin' genius. Too bad it's most definately Euro-only.

[James @ Oct 10th 2006 10:27AM]

Why couldn't you do a US one? Instead of circles, provide crosses: the blade-shaped pin could go in either way. (No idea how you'd do earth though...)

[Dave @ Oct 10th 2006 10:48AM]

How do you work this thing?
How do you work this thing?
I've tried and tried and tried and tried
but how do you work this thing?

Maybe you pull this pin.
Maybe you pull this pin.
I've tried and tried and tried and tried
but how do you work this thing?

Maybe you plug it in.
Maybe you plug it in.
I've tried and tried and tried and tried
but how do you work this thing?

[__smooth__ @ Nov 9th 2009 10:42PM]

terrible.

[Gil @ Oct 10th 2006 12:44PM]

of course they dont work diagonally, (A^2)+(B^2)=(C^2). Duh.

[Gil @ Oct 10th 2006 12:44PM]

oops.. i was too late on the math...