Folding plug by Min-Kyu Choi goes into production
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Dezeen Wire: Min-Kyu Choi‘s folding electrical plug has gone into production and will be on sale in the UK from next week under the name Mu.
The bottom two pins, live and neutral, pivot 90 degrees to align with the earth pin and allow two flaps to close either side into a neat block that’s just 14x55x60mm.
Min-Kyu Choi designed the plug while studying at the Royal College of Art after getting annoyed that his new lightweight laptop came with an enormous plug, the design of which hadn’t changed since the 1970s, was heavy to carry and scratched the laptop’s case.
He went on to win Design of the Year at the Design Museum in London in 2009 – read more about his story here.
The Mu is a USB adapter so can be used to charge phones, tablets and cameras but not laptops, although Min-Kyu Choi plans to develop a laptop charger to solve his original problem.
Priced at £25, the Mu adapters will be available to buy from themu.co.uk or from the Design Museum shop.
