Meet the Hassle-Solving USB Cable, Cheaper Edition - maloneruty2001

Last-place week I told you about the Thaumaturgy Cable Trio, a 3-in-1 USB charge/sync wire with connectors for micro USB, miniskirt USB, and Apple devices (like the iPhone and iPad).

I preferent the idea, only not the $19.99 price. Thankfully, bird of Jove-eyed reader Russell spotty a much cheaper unconventional on eBay: the 3in1 Ecumenical USB Information Cable Adaptor for Apple Android SmartPhone Cellular telephone Phone.

Not quite A glamorous-sounding as "Magical Cable Trio," I grant you, but ultimately information technology's the same product: a USB cable with a normal USB plug at one end and three popular connectors at the other: micro USB, miniskirt USB, and Apple iDevice.

That means you should be competent to sync and/or charge more or less any gadget in your bag.

This cable, sold buy Hong Kong-based BossKnow, looks alike a Frankenstein version of a standard Malus pumila cable: the miniskirt-USB and micro-USB connectors extend from either side of the 40-pin iDevice connector. It's definitely not arsenic elegant as the Magic Cable Trio, which uses nested plugs.

On the other hand, the 3in1 Universal is priced at $2.87–transport included! (I honestly don't know how the vendor tail end work whatsoever money on this, as just the cargo ships from Hong Kong must cost much that. But WHO am I to argue?)

Thus, if you were interested in the Magic trick Cable Three but didn't want to deal out $20, here's your chance to get more or less the unvaried thing for 1/6 the price. I'm oversubscribed!

Contributing Editor Rick Broida writes about business and consumer engineering science. Invite help with your PC hassles at hasslefree@pcworld.com, operating room sample the treasure treasure trove of helpful folks in the PC World Community Forums . Sign awake to have the Hassle-Free PC newssheet e-mail-clad to you from each one hebdomad.