The wall outlet that serves your home office desk is dead. There goes your productive morning. Now what? As annoying as the above scenario is, diagnosing and repairing a non-functioning outlet is ...

Two-pronged devices are commonly used for smaller gadgets like phone chargers while larger appliances typically come with a ...

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We have a severe lack of electrical outlets in the kitchen at work and the toaster oven and blender are sharing an outlet. If you want to use one, you just unplug the other and plug it in. This ...

But not in the US. Anything like that here? I could use a switchable socket like that for a closet to avoid having digging into the closet to plug/unplug an appliance. ...or a switchable adapter for a ...