240W Data Speed?
What, never heard of powerline networking? 😂
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Available via kickstarter. 😑
Already met it’s goal.
When it is a realized actual product, I’ll be happy to look into it.
They do have a prior project that has been delivered successfully.
Basically the same device minus the screen with just a bare board with LED indicators and powered by a coin cell battery:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/electr/c2c-caberqu-usb-c-cable-tester
So is this review based on a prototype?
Kickstarter = no
Why is it not possible to do this by connecting phone to pc and running this as software? This is cool but would be nice to avoid the extra hardware.
Because you could fry your PC.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/google-engineer-finds-usb-type-c-cable-thats-so-bad-it-fried-his-chromebook-pixel/ USB Type-C cable so bad it fries Google engineer’s Chromebook Pixel
With the paragraph covering counterfeit cables, I wonder if it tests incorrectly mapped pinouts. I recall that being a pretty wild QA issue with a bunch of previous cables. Even name brand ones.
If the article wasn’t written in low-contrast, i could actually read it.