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Modernized power strips, convenient VPN and more [Week’s Best Deals]

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Kinkoo designed a power strip for today's needs, with three standard USB and a USB-C port built right in.
Kinkoo designed a power strip for today's needs, with three standard USB and a USB-C port built right in.
Photo: Cult of Mac Deals

It’s finally cold out but we keep getting hot deals at the Cult of Mac Store. This week, some of our best include a surge protector that’s built for users in 2016, an easy-to-use VPN, a tool for organizing daily tasks into sleek flowcharts, and a set of top-shelf Bluetooth earbuds.

They’re all dramatically discounted and make great ideas for stocking stuffers.

3 surge-protected outlets and 4 USB ports in one strip [Deals]

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Kinkoo multi-outlet surge protector
Get three standard and four USB outlets in one compact strip.
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The more devices we get, the more crowded and complicated the power situation becomes. Wall outlets can quickly become a tangle of wires, plugs and adapters, which is more than unsightly — it’s unsafe.

Kinkoo’s multi-outlet surge protector helps clean up and coordinate your charging needs at home and on the go, with three standard outlets, three standard USB charging ports, and a USB-C port, all in one durable, surge-protected power strip that’s less than 8 inches long.

This power strip will take all devices and not overcharge

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Satechi's aluminum power strip provides one elegant charging home for your devices.
Satechi's aluminum power strip provides one elegant charging home for your devices.
Photo: Satechi

Each of our devices needs a mothership so to speak, that place where, at the end of a long day with the battery in the red, they can all return to one place and dock to recharge. This thought occurs to me every time I go to leave the house and must first round up my phone, iPad, computer and camera batteries from the various outlets I left them at the night before.

The accessories company Satechi has built the International Space Station of power strips.