The Secret Life Of... A Data Socket

Ever wonder what you would find if you open up a Power or Data point?

A bunch of cables in a stud wall?

Perhaps.

Or perhaps you would find how data and energy are actually managed behind those plasterboard sheets…

Maybe you would discover a small factory, with a mob of mini-figs busy handling energy storage blocks, from a USB port to a roller-coaster cart, from the cart to a charging platform via another gantry crane… There may also be a fearsome mini-fig geared up for pushing back a couple of cockroaches should they try to disturb this little world!

Or maybe not. Maybe it is just cables, screws and insulation after all…

Next time you plug something to the power, will you resist opening the cover up and see for yourself?