British plugs 240v - perfect for making tea Hard to pull out of a wall Three prongs A fuse for safety Sensible wiring Not a fire hazard Painful to step on American plugs 110v - tea will take ages ...

The team has developed full working pre-production units for North American, European and British plug layouts which work from 100V to 240V AC 50/60Hz.

For our Prius, which we plug into a 110V, it charged about twice as fast on 240V. Still, it was fantastic in a pinch.

A flat-pack redesign of the traditional British three-pin plug has won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award 2010, making us wonder why no-one's thought of it before ...