Review: PowerSquid Surge 3000 is simple, versatile outlet manager
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 22, 2006 at 4:10am
If you’re looking for a cool Christmas present (for yourself or someone else), check out the PowerSquid Surge 3000, which lets you connect multiple devices, even with big power converters, to a single outlet. It’s better than a power strip and can take a tangled mess of cords and make them manageable. Plus, the PowerSquid looks very cool.
The US$69.95 Surge 3000-Calamari Edition’s cephalopod design and stylish blue-on-white accoutrements match well with Apple’s products. It includes: a 3240 Joule rating, two glowing neon “tentacles,” an audible alarm (should the circuits fail), a flat profile fit 360 degree rotating swivel plug, and a $500,000 limited connected equipment warranty. The PowerSquid lets you accommodate AC adapters without wasting outlets, as its tentacle design allows enough separation to accommodate any size power adapter. Most surge protectors are limited to physical space and you end up with overlapping outlets.
Two of the six tentacles are six inches long, two are eight inches and two are ten. This staggered length makes it less crowded when plugging in your items. The adapters support both two prong and three prong cords. Atop the ‘squid are a main on/off button and two LED indicators for grounding and protecting. It also touts
The PowerSquid is one of those products that’s effective in its simplicity and versatility. Once you use the Surge 3000 (or one of its brethren), you’ll never go back to block power strips/surge protectors.
Macsimum rating: 10 out of 10.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
