Cords and plugs seem to multiply as the years go on. How they got there is one question — what they actually do is another.

There's a long-running joke that some of us who live and work with gadgets have accumulated too much tech detritus. We have boxes of old cables and adapters that should have been tossed many moons ago ...

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