If you're envious of the MagSafe connectors on MacBooks—the magnetic break-away safety connection that keeps tripping on your laptop cord from sending your laptop to its death—this polished DIY hack ...

Apple’s MagSafe connector is nifty. It’s held on by magnets so it’s a lot harder to ruin both the connector and notebook if the power cord gets jerked-out unexpectedly. We dug up a DIY guide on how to ...

The crafty-as-hell hardware hackers over at Instructables have posted a tutorial for making a magnetic power connector for Thinkpads. If you're familiar with the MagSafe magnetic connectors on the new ...

DIY-APE has reached an important milestone in developing the back-plug ecosystem for PC DIYers. BTF3.0 (via Uniko's Hardware) is designed so that no cabling is needed between your PSU, motherboard, or ...

Ask anyone with kids what is the best part of the MacBook range and they'll tell you the Magsafe connector. Not only is it easy to pop in – the magnet snaps the plug right into place – but marauding ...

The practice of developing wearable electronics offers a lot of opportunity for new connector designs and techniques for embedding electronics. Questions like these will eventually come up: How will ...

I’m a big proponent of DIY PC building and I tend to describe it as “relatively straightforward.” For the most part, everything just plugs in where it should. But there is one aspect of putting ...

The notorious 16-pin (12VHPWR) power connector continues to be a persistent issue for some unlucky users. While user reports of 16-pin meltdowns have diminished recently, they still occur. The most ...

When rumors of an Nvidia-specific power connector for the rumored GeForce RTX 3090 surfaced last month, it sent hardware nerds into a tizzy that the cable would be a major turn off. If you need a ...