House mains socket with 2 x USB sockets also

Looks useful:

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The hotel we have been stopping in for the last few days has one of these sockets fitted, good idea as it does away with all the different charger plugs.

It will just have a little transformer on the back of the socket I expect, you could fit that socket in five minutes, may consider one at home.

A quick glance around the living room and I can see five different chargers all of which have a USB port and could be used in this type of socket, at least then you don't have to worry about the charger plug packing in.

If we all look at the amount of charging plugs we have

Looks very useful, even better if they come with different faceplates

The US and Canada have 110v 60hz mains power as opposed to the UK which is 220-240v 50hz that's why you can sometimes damage your equipment.

Big bang I expect

I was on a pipelay spread offshore UAE once when I received a radio message from a surveyor on a tug.
"Can you come over, my Navigation gear has gone down".
(I rigged all of the equipment a week earlier and everything was working fine).
When I arrived there he had unhooked many cables then took off 5 US plugs from the nav console, printer, plotter and other things all from the 110vac line.
Then he wired 5 UK plugs onto the same cables then plugged all these into the 220/240 line........

I just screamed at him "Would you do this ^%$£ in your own house".
He said "Yes, what's the problem...I am a professional"

I impolitely told him to get off the bridge, come back when I had repaired everything and if he was to mess about with any more cables he would be thrown overboard without a lifejacket.
He was a good boy after that.

He was university educated too.
You couldn't make it up.

Did you lick it, Jim?
Just to make sure the poor little electrons were healthy?

I've seen combined mains and AC outlets for sale here too though it's not clear if they're 110 or 220 volt. But they wouldn't be any good for us as our toys require 2 amp chargers which are hard enough to find here and these were 1 amp. Fortunately I bought a couple of "Tortoise" brand from PC World when I was over a few months ago. Each plug has two USBs and will happily charge a Galaxy Tab and a phone at the same time. Each plug was cheaper than a new Samsung charger.

I suppose not all of his education at University was lost Jim even though his thinks so, he will have a grounding in various disciplines but there is nothing like the shock of the real world to get the juices flowing.