The Socket Like Brick prototype lets you piece together your own power strip, enabling you to manage your home and office devices with ease.

You’ve probably dealt with it time and time again. In the process of reducing clutter and managing the many devices you have suckling at your wall outlet, or in many cases your power strip, you end up not using one because either it takes up too much space, losing that precious spot altogether, or you don’t have any outlets left, creating a mess of wires and plugs in the process.

That could be a thing of the past now thanks to the Socket Like Brick by designer Chin-Yao Chen. The modular sockets come piece by piece with various sizes to accommodate different sized plugs. You can safely add or remove module sockets to effectively managing the many electronic devices littering your home or office. Of course it would be important for individuals not not get carried away with the amount of modules strung together, but until we are rid of wires and wall outlets for good, we think this is a nice forward-thinking design.

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  1. Gary Kroegman at 7:20am 18th November 2011 How about the durability of the plugs staying in the next module? If I move it or kick it with my foot (my most practical use for these things is under my desk), how easily do the modules separate? Very cool concept though.
  2. Benito Gallegos at 11:09am 17th November 2011 Wait, where is the ground connector?
    1. dang206 at 12:29pm 17th November 2011 Good point. I like this, though I wonder how many you could attach before it becomes a fire hazard.
    2. qwertech at 7:05pm 17th November 2011 Perhaps it is in the module?
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