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A fuzzy plug that connects to any electrical interface. Essentially a dense array of microscopic insulated wires capturing and sending signals to any conducive surfaces in a connector. Noise and imperfections corrected by a processing model trained on months of synchronized ground truth.

Why wouldn't it work? Illustration not to scale.

>> No.10587824

>>10587813
Transfering power through said wires would be fucking awful.

>> No.10587830

>>10587813
so like a conductive velcro? that might work if you could figure out how to make the wires connect to the plug and not each other, AND carry the current without burning. I don't understand what problem this solves though. Whats wrong with our current plugs?

>> No.10587860

>>10587824
It would be fucking awful but maybe not impossible. If several of them are touching the same pin they'd know it and share the load.

>>10587830
There'd be all kinds of crosstalk but the processing model will have seen it and be able to offset it. The main benefit is that you'd be able to talk to any device, no matter how old, obscure, expensive, ... its interface is. Many beneficial corollaries follow.

>> No.10587866

>>10587813
Build it, anon. There's really nothing physically impossible. But the engineering would be a nightmare. You may want to look into materials that help prevent interference.

>> No.10587889

>>10587866
I'll work out the details at least. If anyone wants to collaborate my discord is EasyCheese#9629

>> No.10587903

>>10587813
im sure theres a variety of major issues with this but i cant think of any so go for it

>> No.10587918

>>10587813

Smart concept. It would tie into the whole software over hardware "thing" we have nowadays. One cable, infinite uses. Building it would be the easy part though. Not only you have to program some software to make it recognize each and every hardware you dip into it, but you need to make it so that the act of figuring out the kind of cable you plugged into it doesn't potentially fuck up any other kind of cable. Like, to figure out what kinda shape it needs to be it has to either:
1- change shape and monitor some parameters
2-run some current somewhere
Or possibly both. Both of those things can fuck up a connector and/or the device connected to the other end of it.

>> No.10587940

>>10587860
>plug in iphone XVIMLII Max
>friend comes along and plugs in their iphone XVIMLII
>third friend comes along and plugs in their Galaxy Rubik's
>all at once
You know it's going to happen. How will you accommodate it?

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>>10587940
How the fuck does it work?

>> No.10588049

>>10587813
because the male connector might require potential differences from one surface to the next; and this "signal velcro" could short it

>> No.10588066

>>10588039
Honestly most of the time they don't, I've always had bad luck with them

>> No.10588648

>>10587860
>The main benefit is that you'd be able to talk to any device, no matter how old, obscure, expensive, ... its interface is.
And your system knows automatically what voltage levels your devices need, what frequency, what's the pinout, the protocol, is it synchronous or asynchronous, who drives which line...
The hard part is not mechanics. You can always build an adapter or just cut the cable and solder your own plug to it. The rest is what's hard and you haven't thought about a solution. Also, some plugs your system won't work with:
>All USB types
>all SUB-D versions
>coaxial shit

>> No.10588857

>>10587813
Imagine the capacitance.

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10590443

Reminds me of these “universal” screwdrivers

>> No.10590483

>>10587813
It's not inactionable, it's just that the minimum structure necessary to develop such a plug is the entire planet of Pandora.

>> No.10591424

>>10590483
Pandora isn't a planet, it hasn't cleared it's orbit. It's a dwarf planet.

>> No.10592100

>>10590443
Holy shit, the person who designed this has never used a screwdriver in his life