The familiar 3-pin UK plug was designed in the 1940s but it’s the bulkiest in the world. An RCA design student has reinvented it… http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3864:rca-student-radically-improves-the-uk-plug
(I still think we should be looking at integrated DC circuits in houses – do away with all these bulky hot transformers which so many appliances use now…)
Hello from Wexford Ireland, I enjoyed the article. Very Good.