"They're solving a problem that doesn't exist." I'm pretty sure that's one of the categories you can filter by on Kickstarter, right next to "Overambitious Projects Led By Someone wIth No Actual Expertise", "Products That Could Be Replaced with a Roll of Duct Tape", and "Products That Are Physically Impossible".
@@thomasjenkins7506 don’t wanna be a dick or anything but that’s literally what that expression means i.e. it does something standard but is more complicated and expensive.
I have the total opposite problem. I have way too fucking many unused USB cables. I actually have a huge plastic jar filled to the top with spare cables.
Even if, as a "cable thief", I realized "oh shit this cable is password-protected" after taking it -- I'd still throw it out! Literally all this does is mildly perturb a hypothetical thief, your dumb cable is still gone.
Things that are more likely to deter theft: 1. Putting tape around the middle to make it look like your cable's seriously damaged 2. Making your phone play bee sounds so people think there's a bee flying around 3. Dabbing your cable with peanut oil and hoping the thief has a bad peanut allergy...
The kind of person who feels like they need this actually doesn't. This is due to the fact that said individual would be such a petty, insufferable douchebag that no one would ask to borrow any of their belongings, let alone interact with them at all.
I just imagine some thieves ringing you up a week later, all "Excuse me sir, you wouldn't happen to remember the password to your charging cable" like that episode of One Foot In The Grave.
It looked like there were 3 "buttons" and 5 presses required to unlock the cable. That's only 243 combinations, which is moderately inconvenient but entirely possible to crack if you've got 15 minutes to spare.
the idea: people wont steal your charging chord because its password protected the reality: people will steal your charging chord and, hours later when they try to use it, throw it away because they think its broken
I feel that, in this age, most people have almost too many USB cables. I know more than one person that actually have drawers filled with USB cables. Almost every electronic device comes with a USB cable. I've seen them lying on the ground, forgotten or thrown away like used tissue.
Except it's so lacklustre in it's idea that it could only be fans of Dahir Insaat. If it was them, the cable would be able to do surgery or shoot missiles or something, this is way too boring.
If someone gave me something like this and told me "You only have an hour to charge it, then you'll probably have to give it back" I'd charge it for the one hour, then smash the stupid thing just to spite 'em. It's so ridiculous.
If a thief steals something and can't use it... It's still stolen and you'll never get it back so... what's the point of the MyPlug? All a thief will do is throw it in the trash. If a thief steals a NORMAL cable and it WORKS then he's not throwing it in the trash. All this does is create more trash in our landfills.
Man I _hate_ this charging cable theft epidemic, truly a blight to our whole societal integrity. _Billions_ of cables are stolen every single day and people are _killed_ over it. Finally a solution to this totally real problem that totally exists!
Thank God! I can't tell you how much I have to worry about my neighbor stealing my iPhone charger!. Of course, I guess I should be more worried that he's breaking into my house.
People will still steal it thinking it works, when it doesn't, they'll throw it away....it isn't theft proof at all. Even if everyone in the world knew about password protected cables, they'd still get stolen by people just being assholes...."That'll cost that prick Mikey $30, tee hee!"
So after a long time we finally had STANDARD charging/data cables for pretty much every device. Mostly pushed by laws regarding this, I remember when every phone I had used a different charging cable. And these guys want to put a password on it.... WTF? And yes these standard USB cables are cheap like hell. That is why loosing one doesn't matters so much.
Next among Professor Barnabus Q. Fosdyke's Marvelaneous Contraptions, the key-lock protected bullets! Behold the shock on the face of the urchin or wily Prussian when theft of your repeating musket allows no use without a five-pound ring of keys! Unless they can somehow acquire more bullets!
My friend had a family member who was looking to buy the cheapest car imaginable. After a few months, he finally found a brand new vehicle missing basically every useful innovation for about $7k. No power steering, manual transmission, manual windows and locks, etc. and in place of where a radio would go, a flat metal panel. Not 3 weeks after buying this, one of the stupidest people I have ever seen in my life broke the lock (it was unlocked) to get at that sweet futuristic radio, broke some more shit when he realized he'd been "fooled," and split. The only way stupid people can tell something is worth taking is A) if it presents an easy opportunity or B) if it looks wildly different from the norm. Congratulations, you've just created something that fits both criteria.
Funny story is that a couple weeks ago my mum told me someone stole the plug for her iphone charger while at work... they left the actual charger part on a nearby chair they just nicked the part that plugs into the wall. Wheres the security system for that? No thought in this kickstarter, honestly.
Prevents unauthorized use? Good! I hate when I lend my cables out for exactly one hour for someone to do one thing, and the person uses it to do something else.
One of those ideas that seems vaguely useful at first but then falls apart when you look at it with any kind of logic. Like almost everything on Kickstarter these days, it seems.
Even if cable theft (?) was a common thing, you could probably buy 8 normal cables before buying one of these. This is only useful if you expect someone to steal 9 or more of your cables in the near future.
I have so many cables I just give it away to friends and family. Why the hell would ANYONE need this? They created a solution to a problem that DOESN'T EXIST!
Instead of bio-weapons, Umbrella in our universe specializes in technology abominations. That man is the Wesker of our universe. He will achieve GLOBAL SATURATION OF CABLES
I've been in bands where cables go missing all the time and it's mostly on accident. I bought a roll of white electrical tape and did a small wrap on all my cables. It's too big a pain to take off and it doesn't cost but a buck fifty. Problem solved.
Right from the very first sentence: "Introducing, the first-ever cable designed specifically to prevent unauthorized use and theft." Uhm, so what's a bike lock?
At last, a way to thwart those darn USB Goblins that keep stealing my charger and say they'll only give it back if they find it to be passcode protected. I was wondering why no one was answering my complaints.
isn't there also the issue with apple products sometimes being incompatible with non-apple licensed chargers? like you're paying extra for a cable that might not even work...
How about instead of a "theft-proof" cable, they try making a theft proof external hard drive that can't be pulled from the USB port? Never had cables stolen, but I had 3 different HDD's stolen from the computer lab back in college (every time during literally 1 min bathroom breaks).
No no no. See that's a "logical" way of doing things. My idea is to take a regular old kitchen knife and password-protect, wait for it, THE HANDLE. Here's how it works. The handle has a 1.5 amp current running through it, and to stop it, you need to enter a 48 character code into the uhh... still working on that, thing. The code has to have at least 8 capital letters, 14 digits and 9 symbols. Then once you'v done that, you'll get a phone call from our operator, who'll then ask you 100 personal questions, that you can set up beforehand if you pledge £10,000 or... whatever it is in $. But be warned, if you answer one wrong the knife will explode. [This is what happens when you take someone who's taking the piss even a little seriously, even I regret it.]
Totally Magic Better idea: the knife stabs you if you fuck up any of the steps, and then the company will quietly hide the body and you'll disappear without a trace because capitalism (btw not that it matters but £10,000 is US$12,482, CA$16,373.33, and AU$16,528.66; **f a c t s**).
You can get super cheap third party cables too that work fine, Which makes this kickstarter even more pointless. Did anyone reupload the liquid gravity video btw?
Looks like something I could use to make some money with by selling 1h guest access for smartphone charging to all those refugees in the Aegean. As for practical and actually non-callous reasons to have something like that.. can't find any.
At schools and universities cable theft is common, but here's the deal: having one of these isn't going to prevent that. Your cable will still get stolen, it's just that the thief won't be able to use it. So basically you're paying a premium to passive-aggressively antagonize thieves.
"...you're paying a premium to passive-aggressively antagonise thieves." Sold. You've done a better job selling this cable to me than the actual creators.
If I was dying but it could be prevented with medical care in time and my phone was dead and someone else happened to have this cable but not a phone and we were the only people around for miles but for some reason there's a plug around and if when I asked for the cable to charge my phone to call an ambulance the response was "Okay, I'll just put it on 1-hour guest mode." I'd rather die there and keep my dignity than using a fucking charger on "guest mode". Okay, that's a pretty specific example, but you get my point.
You just know that there's an engineer at Monster who is seeing this for the first time and is hard as a diamond over how he's going to revolutionize the overpriced cable market. "I can market it to the elderly as something that will protect them from the internet!"
"They're solving a problem that doesn't exist."
I'm pretty sure that's one of the categories you can filter by on Kickstarter, right next to "Overambitious Projects Led By Someone wIth No Actual Expertise", "Products That Could Be Replaced with a Roll of Duct Tape", and "Products That Are Physically Impossible".
except this doesn't even solve the problem that doesn't exist. it only costs you more money.
@@thomasjenkins7506 don’t wanna be a dick or anything but that’s literally what that expression means i.e. it does something standard but is more complicated and expensive.
Don't forget "RPG Maker Project" and "Video Game That Wouldn't Have Been Impressive 30 Years Ago"
my charging cable expels a powerful neurotoxin that instantly kills anyone who tries to use it without a unique RFID lanyard
J McFaden
Mine is attached to a giant quadcopter carrying a mysterious blue thing.
Mines hidden in a grotty piss-stained toilet
Cool, it can work with my cat feeder!
Mine is not empty of meaning
"Yeah, shouldn't it just be "take charge"?"
Slowbeef's awed silence as he realizes Diabetus is a marketing genius is just great.
I have the total opposite problem. I have way too fucking many unused USB cables. I actually have a huge plastic jar filled to the top with spare cables.
Quit fuckin stealing cables then you jerk
Please help kickstart my new cutting device, the Xissors.
Well, clearly, you should make a kickstarter to make a password protected jar. This one handily proves you're sitting on a dragon's hoard, here.
gender neutral scissors that are guaranteed not to offend the weak minded?
nejinaji why are youtube commentors like this
Even if, as a "cable thief", I realized "oh shit this cable is password-protected" after taking it -- I'd still throw it out! Literally all this does is mildly perturb a hypothetical thief, your dumb cable is still gone.
Things that are more likely to deter theft:
1. Putting tape around the middle to make it look like your cable's seriously damaged
2. Making your phone play bee sounds so people think there's a bee flying around
3. Dabbing your cable with peanut oil and hoping the thief has a bad peanut allergy...
The kind of person who feels like they need this actually doesn't. This is due to the fact that said individual would be such a petty, insufferable douchebag that no one would ask to borrow any of their belongings, let alone interact with them at all.
and they are probably just stealing their cables to annoy them.
I just imagine some thieves ringing you up a week later, all "Excuse me sir, you wouldn't happen to remember the password to your charging cable" like that episode of One Foot In The Grave.
Finally I can protect all the sensitive data stored on my... cable?
It looked like there were 3 "buttons" and 5 presses required to unlock the cable. That's only 243 combinations, which is moderately inconvenient but entirely possible to crack if you've got 15 minutes to spare.
Now just imagine how this product would be made in the Robocop universe, where it would zap the thief to death and find its way back home by itself.
Can see it now, someone stealing the cable but not your phone.
....waitwhat
the idea: people wont steal your charging chord because its password protected
the reality: people will steal your charging chord and, hours later when they try to use it, throw it away because they think its broken
Why does it feel like Johnny Startup's been dubbed over
"Your phone is charging slowly, please input the combination for better charging"
I feel that, in this age, most people have almost too many USB cables. I know more than one person that actually have drawers filled with USB cables. Almost every electronic device comes with a USB cable. I've seen them lying on the ground, forgotten or thrown away like used tissue.
"hey man can I borrow your cable?"
"Sure dude, the password is left left right right center"
"What?"
When this started up, I could've sworn it was by the Dahir Insaat guys.
Oh my god, yes. Everyone about it from the computer animation to the narrator to the _idea_ just screamed Dahir Insaat.
Except it's so lacklustre in it's idea that it could only be fans of Dahir Insaat.
If it was them, the cable would be able to do surgery or shoot missiles or something, this is way too boring.
Yeah... you're right. It probably doesn't even do anything to protect you from earthquakes either.
Dahir Insaat would have done a much better presentation though.
But can it be used as a garrote to strangle the capitalist scourge?
I MIGHT get the idea with a portable disc drive or USB key, but a cable, wew.
But you can already password protect those. You can even fucking encrypt them.
If someone gave me something like this and told me "You only have an hour to charge it, then you'll probably have to give it back" I'd charge it for the one hour, then smash the stupid thing just to spite 'em. It's so ridiculous.
If a thief steals something and can't use it... It's still stolen and you'll never get it back so... what's the point of the MyPlug? All a thief will do is throw it in the trash. If a thief steals a NORMAL cable and it WORKS then he's not throwing it in the trash. All this does is create more trash in our landfills.
the phone is whatever but boy i'm really jonesing to steal that fucking charging cable
I hope this is actually some dude trying to mass produce usb dongles to make phones into botfarms cus that gives me more hope and faith in the world
Man I _hate_ this charging cable theft epidemic, truly a blight to our whole societal integrity. _Billions_ of cables are stolen every single day and people are _killed_ over it. Finally a solution to this totally real problem that totally exists!
Well this is certainly the most passive-aggressive concept I've seen in a while.
My sister steals my phone charger constantly. Boy, she's in for a surprise next time.
"Introducing the first ever cable" video buffers
i thought for a second that they invented cables
my wire cutters, soldering iron and 5 cents worth of heat shrink tubing have rendered your Theft-Proof Cable highly stealable
Johnny Startup sounds like the King Double Sooramic Knives guy
Thank God! I can't tell you how much I have to worry about my neighbor stealing my iPhone charger!. Of course, I guess I should be more worried that he's breaking into my house.
Let's up the ante, if you go ten minutes over in guest mode, it shorts out connected devices. That'll show 'em.
That music... And the voice...
Is that... DAHIR INSAAT?!
People will still steal it thinking it works, when it doesn't, they'll throw it away....it isn't theft proof at all. Even if everyone in the world knew about password protected cables, they'd still get stolen by people just being assholes...."That'll cost that prick Mikey $30, tee hee!"
So after a long time we finally had STANDARD charging/data cables for pretty much every device. Mostly pushed by laws regarding this, I remember when every phone I had used a different charging cable.
And these guys want to put a password on it.... WTF?
And yes these standard USB cables are cheap like hell. That is why loosing one doesn't matters so much.
when Frugal_jerks invent a power cable
There are 27 combinations, with a 50% chance of getting it right in 14 tries. That would take what, 2 minutes to brute force?
15 possible combinations sounds theft-proof to me.
Aha the fool left their stuff unattended! Hmmm cell phone? Nah. Laptop? Pff whatever. A $5 charging cable? FUCK YES!
I expected this to be some kind of parental control thing. Can't believe it's even worse.
Oh no someone else is charging my phone.THE HUMANITY
Password-protecting something that practically exists to be borrowed nowadays.
Only on Kickstarter.
Whyyyyyyyyyyy??
Couldn't you just chop the bit out with the security mechanism and connect the wires together?
WHY WOULD YOU THOUGH? I mean, who would bother?!
Those charger cable thieves are determined....they've just gotta steal 'em! It's a huge problem....apparently.
no, its designed to blow up and tear off the arms of anyone who tampers with it in a powerful explosion
J McFaden But what if you're like................really fast........like me.....or something....
Or......... Get a regular cable from the dollar store and save yourself the trouble?
Next among Professor Barnabus Q. Fosdyke's Marvelaneous Contraptions, the key-lock protected bullets! Behold the shock on the face of the urchin or wily Prussian when theft of your repeating musket allows no use without a five-pound ring of keys! Unless they can somehow acquire more bullets!
I am mostly angry that they missed the chance to call it the Authenticable.
Little do Beef and Betus know they've fallen right into the trap and are subconsciously marketing the Deadpool sequel to us.
The narrator sounds a lot like the narrator of the Dahir Insaat videos, which is fitting.
GPS tracking is the anti-theft tool, not a passcode, they got their baskets mixed up. And a lot of other things...
You could very easily just cut the lock out of the wire and then solder the two cut wires together
Danny Littlehacker is my favorite Game of Thrones character
My friend had a family member who was looking to buy the cheapest car imaginable. After a few months, he finally found a brand new vehicle missing basically every useful innovation for about $7k. No power steering, manual transmission, manual windows and locks, etc. and in place of where a radio would go, a flat metal panel. Not 3 weeks after buying this, one of the stupidest people I have ever seen in my life broke the lock (it was unlocked) to get at that sweet futuristic radio, broke some more shit when he realized he'd been "fooled," and split.
The only way stupid people can tell something is worth taking is A) if it presents an easy opportunity or B) if it looks wildly different from the norm. Congratulations, you've just created something that fits both criteria.
Funny story is that a couple weeks ago my mum told me someone stole the plug for her iphone charger while at work... they left the actual charger part on a nearby chair they just nicked the part that plugs into the wall. Wheres the security system for that? No thought in this kickstarter, honestly.
Oh my god this has to be the up there with that grease plate in terms of pointless. I'm speechless..
im so excited for this new future of passcode puzzles in newgrounds games
Because I totally couldn't just steal the phone and use my own not password locked cable when I sell it.
Ace Fox Are you sure you understand the point of the product lol?
No Name Well it has a point. Not to say that it's a viable point but it's still a point nevertheless.
Prevents unauthorized use? Good! I hate when I lend my cables out for exactly one hour for someone to do one thing, and the person uses it to do something else.
This seems like a viable solution to a very specific problem that basically *no one* has.
It almost sounds like the on-screen presenter dubbed his own voice back in. Weird.
One of those ideas that seems vaguely useful at first but then falls apart when you look at it with any kind of logic.
Like almost everything on Kickstarter these days, it seems.
I can't imagine that someone would dislike a Retsupurae video. Maybe they did so in a blind rage.
Be in charge!
BE IN CHARGE!
i'm more interested the first BREAK proof charger cable
Even if cable theft (?) was a common thing, you could probably buy 8 normal cables before buying one of these. This is only useful if you expect someone to steal 9 or more of your cables in the near future.
Rampant charger theft is at an all time high.
I have so many cables I just give it away to friends and family. Why the hell would ANYONE need this? They created a solution to a problem that DOESN'T EXIST!
"What do you think the word 'clever' means?!"
Ahh, the universal question.
Kickstarter projects: solving problems that don't exist since 2009.
Also, there's only three buttons, so it wouldn't take more than an hour to figure out the passcode by trying every code possible
the next best security device on the market: a jacket with pockets
This is like something you could use to prank somebody by switching their iPad cable with a passcode locked one. OH, THE SHENANIGANS!
Instead of bio-weapons, Umbrella in our universe specializes in technology abominations.
That man is the Wesker of our universe.
He will achieve GLOBAL SATURATION OF CABLES
I've been in bands where cables go missing all the time and it's mostly on accident. I bought a roll of white electrical tape and did a small wrap on all my cables. It's too big a pain to take off and it doesn't cost but a buck fifty. Problem solved.
yep. that's usually how those issues are solved on construction sites: electrical tape.
"The ultimate charging cable" that intentionally stops itself from charging things.
The guy looks like a cross between James Rolfe and Peter Dinklage.
If you have such a huge issue with losing cables or them getting stolen, here's a revolutionary concept: Charge it at home.
This might be the least useful thing I have ever seen.
these products are getting worse and worse and worse
at least we'll have Star Citizen. Oh wait...
No but seriously, "Winners don't use drugs or steal cables"
but does the cable have gps?
But does it have deep learning AI?
but can it clean out the insides of your veins with tiny spinning razorblades?
jay can there is only one true question is it also a bottle opener?
Now introducing, the password protected USB powered Portable Bidet
No but it has a crafting system.
Right from the very first sentence: "Introducing, the first-ever cable designed specifically to prevent unauthorized use and theft."
Uhm, so what's a bike lock?
0:58 I thought the dude was going to walk past and give her a five.
I want Johnny Startup's Umbrella business card now.
i don't really see how password protecting will stop someone from TAKING your cable, but whatever
At last, a way to thwart those darn USB Goblins that keep stealing my charger and say they'll only give it back if they find it to be passcode protected. I was wondering why no one was answering my complaints.
This seems a game console thing to prevent resale.
isn't there also the issue with apple products sometimes being incompatible with non-apple licensed chargers? like you're paying extra for a cable that might not even work...
all your pettiness in one device!
How about instead of a "theft-proof" cable, they try making a theft proof external hard drive that can't be pulled from the USB port? Never had cables stolen, but I had 3 different HDD's stolen from the computer lab back in college (every time during literally 1 min bathroom breaks).
I love how desensitized slowbeef and diabeetus are that a man being garroted in a kickstarter pitch doesn't merit acknowledgment.
Beef was really forcing that "you know I'm a mobile developer" catchphrase in the later years, shame it never caught on
This Kickstarter seems to be the result of some wiseass attempting to pass off his Intro to Engineering 1 project as a real product.
How is this theft-proof in any way?
Kickstart my new project, a password protected knife. How does it work? MAAAAGGGIIICCC.
But seriously this is stupid.
Make it a switchblade with an electronic lock and it might be producible.
It'd be just as pointless and overengineered as this thing, but so yeah.
No no no. See that's a "logical" way of doing things. My idea is to take a regular old kitchen knife and password-protect, wait for it, THE HANDLE.
Here's how it works. The handle has a 1.5 amp current running through it, and to stop it, you need to enter a 48 character code into the uhh... still working on that, thing. The code has to have at least 8 capital letters, 14 digits and 9 symbols. Then once you'v done that, you'll get a phone call from our operator, who'll then ask you 100 personal questions, that you can set up beforehand if you pledge £10,000 or... whatever it is in $. But be warned, if you answer one wrong the knife will explode.
[This is what happens when you take someone who's taking the piss even a little seriously, even I regret it.]
Totally Magic Better idea: the knife stabs you if you fuck up any of the steps, and then the company will quietly hide the body and you'll disappear without a trace because capitalism (btw not that it matters but £10,000 is US$12,482, CA$16,373.33, and AU$16,528.66; **f a c t s**).
That's a pledge goal.
^ Hire this guy
if you can afford an iphone, you can afford a new plug
You can get super cheap third party cables too that work fine, Which makes this kickstarter even more pointless.
Did anyone reupload the liquid gravity video btw?
Looks like something I could use to make some money with by selling 1h guest access for smartphone charging to all those refugees in the Aegean.
As for practical and actually non-callous reasons to have something like that.. can't find any.
At schools and universities cable theft is common, but here's the deal: having one of these isn't going to prevent that. Your cable will still get stolen, it's just that the thief won't be able to use it. So basically you're paying a premium to passive-aggressively antagonize thieves.
It's like some sort of anti-piracy that can be easily bypassed and it is pointless to have.
It's like some sort of anti-piracy that can be easily bypassed and it is pointless to have.
"...you're paying a premium to passive-aggressively antagonise thieves." Sold. You've done a better job selling this cable to me than the actual creators.
Schools and universities, typical. That's what Sargon warned us about!
Also, the great thing about cables is they fit nicely into a pocket. There's no reason to ever leave one unattended.
This works to keep the kids at home from stealing my cables. I mean, there's a market.
If I see one of these in the wild I'm takin' it
If I was dying but it could be prevented with medical care in time and my phone was dead and someone else happened to have this cable but not a phone and we were the only people around for miles but for some reason there's a plug around and if when I asked for the cable to charge my phone to call an ambulance the response was "Okay, I'll just put it on 1-hour guest mode." I'd rather die there and keep my dignity than using a fucking charger on "guest mode".
Okay, that's a pretty specific example, but you get my point.
You just know that there's an engineer at Monster who is seeing this for the first time and is hard as a diamond over how he's going to revolutionize the overpriced cable market. "I can market it to the elderly as something that will protect them from the internet!"