When online shopping was the wild west, you could buy delights such as male-to-male power cords, but they disappeared as retailers and platforms refined their policies. Big tech having outgrown state capacity to apply consequences, wildly dangerous junk is back on the menu. Big Clive checks out the "widowmakers" you can now buy online.
Another stunning demonstration of how unregulated online marketplaces have completely destroyed the safety regulations over the past decade. These connectors are sold as accessories for making up your own custom extension cables for things like electric scooters. They carry a huge risk of a connection mixup making metalwork live or causing dangerous damage to the charging circuitry of a lithium battery pack. If you want to see these out of morbid curiosity then search keywords like IEC C13 5.5mm should find random listings on various platforms. Don't buy them though, unless you want a scary exhibit for safety education.
New novelties include mains to phono adapters.
You may remember Big Clive from the untrippable circuit breaker he found. Hey, it's very convenient for when the stupid regular circuit breaker keeps tripping!
