Textile Dock Cables Offer Retro Recharge
This handsome retro-styled accessory is the Textile iCable from Eastern Collective, a dock-connector with its wire wound in cotton to make it look like an old-timey kettle lead or even a bicycle pump adapter. And if I wasn’t banking on Apple switching over to a new dock connector for all future iDevices (and if I didn’t already have a drawer full of white cables), I’d probably already have ordered a few.
I don’t have many problems with the Apple cable, other than always trying to plug it in the wrong way round. It doesn’t tangle, it it the right length, and as I mentioned above, its long history means I have more than enough of them.
But the Eastern Collective cable is so cool looking I can’t help but hanker. And as it costs just $14 – a full $5 less than Apple’s overpriced offering – you should probably just switch over to these instead of the OEM version. Bonus: When your iPad 3 heats up to clothes-iron temperatures (like mine does), now you can actually have it look like a clothes iron as you press your shirts.
- Source Eastern Collective
- Via Uncrate
Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via 
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