{"id":2691,"date":"2014-04-03T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2014-04-03T10:45:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T00:45:21","slug":"meet-the-new-usb-cable-reversible-flippable-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/meet-the-new-usb-cable-reversible-flippable-thin\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The New USB Cable: Reversible, Flippable &#038; Thin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/27133247\/usb-type-c-first-image.0_standard_800.0.jpg\" alt=\"USB Type-C cable\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/27133247\/usb-type-c-first-image.0_standard_800.0.jpg 800w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/27133247\/usb-type-c-first-image.0_standard_800.0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/27133247\/usb-type-c-first-image.0_standard_800.0-770x512.jpg 770w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/27133247\/usb-type-c-first-image.0_standard_800.0-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/27133247\/usb-type-c-first-image.0_standard_800.0-380x253.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Shankland at CNET:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The upcoming USB cable design is reversible, has no right-side-up or upside-down problems, and will click when you plug it in. Expect the new design on the market as soon as this year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks excellent. I wasn&#8217;t aware of the clicking thing either; that&#8217;s a nice solution to those weirdly-shaped USB drives that sometimes don&#8217;t completely plug in all the way.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt with the ubiquity of USB ports in current devices it&#8217;s going to a long, slow transition, but I can&#8217;t wait. Now, I wonder when the MacBook Pro is going to get one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Shankland at CNET: The upcoming USB cable design is reversible, has no right-side-up or upside-down problems, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[487,766],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}