Ah those young designers... Drawing nice things is art, not design. If you can have a nice thing that also works, THAT is.
Unfortunately what we have here is just art, the pictures show plenty of nice opportunities for electrocution, so I dearly hope these concept things were not connected to any power source.
Sure, there are nice flowers on the socket and the 4-hole-style looks much nicer than the european recessed socket, but without ground and touch protection I hope your kids live long enough to enjoy the looks. And true, the tiny plug with the possibility to connect two cables almost invisibly is intriguing. Now if someone had a look at the electrical and mechanical issues with that he'd know why the exisiting plugs are so bulky. But clearly Mr. Sung-hun Choi hasn't bothered too much with that. Maybe someone could tell him there's no + and - with AC, though... :)
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Ah those young designers... Drawing nice things is art, not design. If you can have a nice thing that also works, THAT is.
Unfortunately what we have here is just art, the pictures show plenty of nice opportunities for electrocution, so I dearly hope these concept things were not connected to any power source.
Sure, there are nice flowers on the socket and the 4-hole-style looks much nicer than the european recessed socket, but without ground and touch protection I hope your kids live long enough to enjoy the looks.
And true, the tiny plug with the possibility to connect two cables almost invisibly is intriguing. Now if someone had a look at the electrical and mechanical issues with that he'd know why the exisiting plugs are so bulky.
But clearly Mr. Sung-hun Choi hasn't bothered too much with that. Maybe someone could tell him there's no + and - with AC, though... :)