Electronics are everywhere, and a new device or machine comes out every few months for us to purchase. With every new device is of course a new cord of some sort to charge that device when it gets low on power. First it will have one end that fits into the device and the other end usually is a USB type that can be used in multiple USB compatible machines or plug ins.
I would have to say that 90 percent of the time I go to insert a USB into it's slot, I usually have the damn thing upside down or it is the right way but its not lined up perfectly and I end up flipping it the other way and it won't go in.
Why the hell is this the standard model for a USB slot? Any secret agent in a movie has no problem inserting a USB, they do it perfectly every time with no problems at all. We don't live in a movie, and in our reality it is a frustrating thing to deal with.
The U in USB stands for universal, it is the furthest from universal in my opinion and the design of the stupid thing needs to change, make it so you can insert it in any direction and with ease, to truly make it live up to the name Universal Serial Bus.
This is not the only type of plug in that is frustrating to deal with, most phones and tablets have a different type of charging port/ serial bus as well. Then you have gaming systems, GPS devices, GoPro Cameras, and a whole bunch of other devices that all have different cords and plug ins.
Could there not be a system in place so that all cords are the same when you have to insert them into a device? I must have over a hundred cords in my house that are in a box in the basement, most of them I have no idea what they are for, or for which device they belong to, but I'm scared to throw any out in case I need one for something. Some of these cords are rare and you can't buy them anymore, because the plug and the port are so different from anything else out there.
If most cords all had the same ends this would not be a problem, as you could interchange any cord with another one. All printer cords could be the same, All handheld devices could be the same, all laptops and so on. This would keep some of the junk in our landfills out of it, as well as having a tangled junk cord box in your basement a less likely thing.
Scott Goerz
