6 – Going wireless: The wireless dongle installed (before stripping the insulation from the cable). You can see the 2 white rectangular antennae, mounted on the top end of the dongle.

Bluelounge’s SpaceStation is a docking port for laptops that manages connections with an internal 4-port USB hub, keeping wires tangle-free and out of sight.

If you have a laptop or a widescreen TV, chances are, there’s an flexible cable connecting the motherboard with one or multiple daughterboards – or even a custom-made flexible PCB.

The Google engineer who launched a crusade against bad USB-C cables in late 2015 just uncovered another sub-standard USB-C cable—and this time it’s cost him a $1,000 laptop.

No cheap cable is worth the cost of frying your device. So make sure any cables you buy are USB certified, or at least from a company that you've heard of before. Source: Benson Leung via Ars Technica ...