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FastMac U-Socket to ship out in October

By in-sanity on May 23rd, 2010

It seems that the USB port escapes the multimedia device case and moves to the wall socket. This is the U-Socket from FastMac and it will be ready for shipping in October. You’ll be able to purchase one for about $20. The original design that was supposed to be priced at $10 had to be redesigned due to safety issues but now comes with a few new features.

In addition to relocating the USB connectors, the safety boards have also requested some other internal changes which will make the U-Socket safer & easier to manufacture. Since we were asked to redesign the U-Socket, we’ve gone back to the drawing board and rebuilt the product from the ground up to incorporate the following additional features:

a) USB 3.0
b) 10W Charging support so you can charge 1 iPad at full speed or 2 iPads @ half speed. This also means you can charge 2 iPhones at the same speed as Apple’s AC adapter.
c) Energy Star- U-Socket meets and beats the EPA’s Energy Star requirements by more than 10x their minimum when compared to the energy savings achieved by a typical Energy-Star compliant AC Adapter FYI, only 2 mobile phone manufacturers (Nokia & Samsung) make Energy-Star compliant AC adapters.
d) TruePower Technology- custom ‘TruePower’ energy efficient AC/DV converter and power management ICs
e) Custom UL-approved transformers that are smaller than even those found inside Apple’s impossibly-small iPhone AC Adapter

All of these modifications/ upgrades will result in a reschedule of the shipping date to October end at the latest.

Pretty cool and handy.

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