One Cable That Can Do Anything?

[WYP]

A very interesting cable has recently appeared on Kickstarter, this cable can be used to attach almost and device to it, through USB, HDMI, Lightning and many more.

Read more on the TOB Cable here.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

That braid looks sweet!

 

[NeverBackDown]

I'd like to know the max bandwidth of the cable itself and all that other spazz. Sure it may be able to transfer video but if it doesn't support a wide range of colors or something of the sort, quality lowers.

Cool idea though. Wish they would come with a lot of extra's for usb for example. Otherwise you would need to keep taking the whole thing out, including the usb part itself to move it to say another pc.

 

[jasonlylevene]

Nice idea, but not for me.

If my dog didn't constantly pester me for food and attention, I'd forget I even have a dog.

If my wife didn't insist this was her house too, I'd forget I was even married.

I would loose my family jewels if they weren't attached.

I'd either find all the adapters, but not the wire, or I'd have the wire and only 1 of the two ends I required.

 

[Feronix]

Nice idea, but not practical unless you want to keep it in your 'PC fixing bag'.

It's probably a lot cheaper to buy an HDMI only cable if you want to hook up your monitor to your computer, or an audio only cable. You're not going to buy this cable for a lot more, use the HDMI connectors and keep the rest somewhere in 'storage' only to be forgotten about.

 

[SieB]

I like it, seems like it would be more useful to people who carry a lot of portable devices and need the different types of connectivity on the go than anything else though. For home use you are better off with dedicated cables, but having one of these spare around the house could be useful.

 

[joca94]

Id wannaw get one of those when the price drops

 

[Xploited Titan]

When I watch carefully the ends of the cable, I cannot see how it'd work.

Is it fiber optics? If it is, then one cannot use it to charge anything with it, it'd be pure data transfer.

Is it an electrical conductor? If it is, I only see one big conductor (no separations), which would prevent any data processing, as data needs at least 2 conductors.

The easiness to pull out the cable from the adaptor seems to be the weakest link in the system. I see very clearly problems appear in mainstream use (cable holding less and less well in its adaptor).

Frankly won't waste my time and/or money on such a project trying to invent something for the sake of inventing.

 

[Sheza]

When I watch carefully the ends of the cable, I cannot see how it'd work.

Is it fiber optics? If it is, then one cannot use it to charge anything with it, it'd be pure data transfer.

Is it an electrical conductor? If it is, I only see one big conductor (no separations), which would prevent any data processing, as data needs at least 2 conductors.

The easiness to pull out the cable from the adaptor seems to be the weakest link in the system. I see very clearly problems appear in mainstream use (cable holding less and less well in its adaptor).

Frankly won't waste my time and/or money on such a project trying to invent something for the sake of inventing.

If you bothered to read it:
'Inside the cable are heavy gauge copper wires and an optical fiber.'

So it's both fibre for data and copper for power.

Given that you didn't know that, I don't think you're in position to accurately speculate on how well their circular holder works

 

[Xploited Titan]

If you bothered to read it:
'Inside the cable are heavy gauge copper wires and an optical fiber.'

So it's both fibre for data and copper for power.

Given that you didn't know that, I don't think you're in position to accurately speculate on how well their circular holder works

Clearly, when you see the endings of the cable, one doesn't see any conductor/fiber coming out. They may claim that's what's inside the cable, but the termination doesn't look a copper/fiber hybrid.

And speculation is all about guessing where the current design will hurt. Might be "user"-friendly, but it will become the nightmare easily enough.
I have seen enough people promote new connectors and stumble time and again over the same limitations.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Clearly, when you see the endings of the cable, one doesn't see any conductor/fiber coming out. They may claim that's what's inside the cable, but the termination doesn't look a copper/fiber hybrid.

Clearly if you looked you could see it's metal around the edges and the middle part sticking out(hard to tell at this angle) seems to be the opening for optics to run through. So yes it will transfer data and power. Advertising it would when it wouldn't isn't exactly legal either.