Yanko Design

A small design detail to make the charging cable much better!

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Baseus’s Maruko Video Cable is quite clever. Usually charging cables are an afterthought, but this USB charging and data transfer cable is quite cleverly designed, turning into a stand-of-sorts for your smartphone, propping it up as it charges it. With a plastic casing around the charging port that extends down the length of the cable, it acts as a third point of contact, holding your phone up in landscape mode, allowing you to watch videos or play games while charging. Its circular head design detail is pretty neat too, as it allows for easy gripping and pushing, making working with the cable a tad bit easier. I’m pretty sure no one’s ever thought of this before…!

Designer: Hana He

Sarang Sheth
Sarang is the co-editor in chief of Yanko Design. He is a former industrial designer at a Bangalore-based multidisciplinary design studio, working in areas including appliances, FMCG, packaging, technology, luxury, etc. Sarang has written about design and technology for over a decade and has been a jury member on international design awards. He occasionally works on tech concepts featured on Forbes, The Verge, Hypebeast, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, LetsGoDigital, and Unbox Therapy. Sarang graduated from MIT Institute of Design, Pune.
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