I often come across posts online and yes, predominantly on LinkedIn, discussing AI. AI is today’s crypto of course; not long ago everyone was refashioning himself [yes, for it always was a he] into a crypto expert and now everyone is at it with AI. Everything gets called AI-enabled, even when they are peddling a regular programme no more intelligent than Excel.
But here is the piece of tech that would absolutely revolutionise my life: the universal charger. There. A charger.
I don’t know about you but I’ve got a drawer full of cables with different jacks in this very desk, a tangle of ire that assails me as I realise that something is out of charge. Here are the items I own which require a specific cable:
the mouse, the Ordo toothbrush, the Philips toothbrush, the FitBit, the laptop, the Windows laptop, the camera, the Bose headphones, the AirPods, the drawing tablet, the mobile, the Clarisonic, the epilator, and probably a few more which don’t immediately come to mind.
Can someone, anyone, anywhere please come up with a single piece of hardware that permits the charging of all of these, preferably without getting plugged in at all? A universal mat that can beam power to a toothbrush and a watch and a phone and a laptop all at once?
Please God, I don’t need any more AI-powered bollocks in my life, particularly as none of them do anything to improve it. Just give me a single piece of hardware that sets me free of these wires for ever.