Hasta La Ideas

Here’s some intelligent industrial design by Scott Wilson and MNML. The Power Pod, designed for Coalesse, is intended to solve an obvious and underaddressed problem: These days people plug and unplug things all the time. It would be nice to have a power strip within easy access of our workstations for this, but that means putting it out in plain sight—and most powerstrips are ugly as hell, not to mention many still do not address the fact that power adapters are too freaking bulky to fit side by side. I absolutely hate this latter point because it speaks of a real lack of design awareness.

The cleanly-designed Power Pod, on the other hand, is easy on the eyes and disappears when not in use by disguising itself as a useful desk accessory.

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