Touch & Plug leverages your sense of touch to make plugging into hidden sockets easy. If you can touch it, plug it — sight unseen.
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Touch & Plug leverages your sense of touch to make plugging into hidden sockets easy. If you can touch it, plug it — sight unseen.
About this project
Wall sockets — where would we be without them? These outlets make our lives a paradigm of convenience, until you try to use the one tucked behind the bed or in the darkness in the middle of the night. Touch & Plug is the world’s first outlet cover that functions as a plug guide — allowing you to easily plug into even the most hidden sockets.
Touch and Plug’s patent-pending design eliminates the need for sockets to be seen to be used. Once fitted, Touch and Plug turns any socket into an easy to use one. Put simply, if you can touch it, you can plug it.
How it works
The Touch and Plug is a wall outlet cover for traditional dual sockets and it measures 5.5 inches long and 3.5 inches wide. It can easily replace traditional dual socket covers. All you need is one screw and 30 seconds.
The slots built into the Touch and Plug outlet cover make using a hidden socket more straightforward than ever — slide the plug across the cover into the rectangular depression then onto the slots. Just move the plug up or down to find the socket holes. It’s as easy as that.
Convenience at your fingertips
Sockets are meant to be convenient — available just at an arm’s length whenever needed. But when your arm is bent awkwardly behind the TV, dresser, bed, or couch blocking your view of the socket, it’s not so convenient anymore. Touch and Plug doesn’t just restore convenience, it enhances it. With Touch and Plug, every socket becomes easier to use than ever before. The cover’s design helps guide you — plug in hand — into the wall socket with ease.
Simplicity
This isn’t a complicated device — once you’ve fitted Touch and Plug over your existing socket, you’ll find even the hardest to see becomes easy to use. Just touch, follow the grooves, and plug in.
Why do you need Touch and Plug?
To make your life easier, of course! Whether you’re a mother juggling children while trying to plug in their latest toy, or a tech-head texting while you no-look plug in your tablet to charge, Touch and Plug makes using sockets a quicker and easier experience every time.
Touch and Plug makes it easy for:
- Busy parents
- Teenagers
- Grandparents
- Seniors
- People with physical disabilities and visual impairments
Why does the world need Touch and Plug?
This is a product that will bring convenience to the masses by eliminating frustration and wasted energy, but for some members of our community Touch and Plug offers more than just convenience. Its potential to grant greater independence to people with visual impairments is massive— and enhancing independence for everyone is Touch and Plug’s top priority.
Risks and challenges
With any new project there are risks — this is uncharted territory. While I have been working with a supplier I’ve known for over 15 years, there can always be hiccups in new product development.
We are committed to ensuring the timely and proper delivery of this product, and any challenges that do arise we will meet with the upmost transparency. Risks include time it takes to tweak injection mold and issues handling shipping a high volume of covers.
Touch & Plug is one of the more simple objects being made by the manufacturing facility however, and it is highly likely manufacturing will go on without issue.
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