Gadgetory

the two original connector specifications for USB were a and B don't you love it when engineers name things with both male and female connector types for each female a receptacles were intended for host devices like computers the ones that control the transfer of data over the USB connection while female B receptacles were intended for upstream peripheral devices printer scanners CD burners and the like most cables feature a male a connector and a male B connector of some sort because with the exception of on-the-go capable devices there's no reason to connect two hosts to each other or to peripherals now back to the original standards I don't want to hate on them or anything they did propel the Universal Serial bus to damn near ubiquity in the computing world but they had some fairly significant limitations they were large bulky and fragile rated at a mere 1,500 insertion cycles they were only designed to deliver a little bit of power the speeds at which they operated quickly became a bottleneck and finally particularly irritating on the a connector they only went in one way without any clear visual indication of which way was right leading to awesome computer nerd jokes like how many tries does it take to get a plug into a USB connection for twice to get it wrong once to think you got it wrong and one more time to put the damn thing in so that you can hear that ever so satisfying doo doo now many of these issues have been improved over the years almost right away USB 2.0 dramatically improved speeds without requiring new physical connectors or cables mini and micro versions of the B connector were developed to be more durable and more suitable for devices that fit in your pocket and more recently the backwards compatible USB 3.0 standard brought about new a B and microbead connectors that add physical pins to dramatically improve speed and power delivery again to keep us be competitive with newer standards like eSATA and thunderbolt and that's for rad today but can USB be even better Apple sure thought so and introduced their proprietary lightning connector which is smaller rugged enough for me to sleep with my phone under my pillow without worrying about breaking it and reversible but unfortunately still limited to USB 2.0 speeds so there's still room for improvement and here it is the future is now the USB type-c connector has been finalized and if it delivers what it's promising it's going to basically kick all those other connectors to the curb with a completely redesigned connector designed to deliver up to double the data of USB 3.0 10 gigabit per second up to a hundred watts of power so you could conceivably power a monitor or charge your laptop off of it really you can't go for seconds without reusing a joke anyway back on topic it has a slim design with a 10,000 cycle durability rating so you can use the same cables across all your different devices and not worry about breaking them and finally it has a reversible connector so you never have to play guess the orientation again speaking of orientation today's episode of how not to shave is brought to you by Dollar Shave Club never shave with the razor blade graphed firmly in your hand and the handle up your nose never shave while firmly grasping the razor and scraping the blade with the force of a thousand suns against your manwich and never ever shave while not actually being able to reach the razor you want to use through the ogor proof locking storage system you find in most grocery stores Dollar Shave Club can help with all of this for just a few dollars a month you can get high-quality razors delivered straight to your door once per month and even better than that they do other bathroom supplies too one wipe Charlies are there peppermint scented butt wipes for men and are now available in these convenient one-time use packages I mean of course you would only use a butt wipe one time I mean the point is that there's one inside the package and dr. Carver's shave butter goes on clear so you can see what you're doing no matter what it is you happen to be shaving check it out now guys and join the club at dollarshaveclub.com slash Lynas to start shaving time and shaving money I've had a lot of people complain about that joke that's not my joke that's their joke shave time shave money dollar shave club I just say it because they give me money speaking of giving me money no no this doesn't give me any money at all but it definitely helps me feel good about myself guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment suggesting future episodes you'd love to see it fast as possible and as always thanks again for watching and don't forget to subscribe