Let me put it this way, if my cat is jumping about 4 and a half feet in the
air on to a ledge smaller than a stair banister, then, yeah, maybe. She's
not even allowed in the room where I keep the cable though, and the fact
that if I'm not literally using the cable then I unplug it and it's in a
drawer, so I very highly doubt this is the case.
My mother got that cable home I told you all about with the blue L E D
lights. She thinks it's made by someone called Atomy? She may be
remembering the spelling wrong though. They're not cheap. They're about 14
or 15 bucks a piece from Bed, Bath and Beyond, but they're so! worth it!
For one, it's a double threaded cable, meaning, it kind a reminds me of how
an old fassion phone cord that plugs into the wall would feel. You know how
they usually feel like two cords put together, one on the left side of the
cable and another on the right? Almost like a split cord is the best way I
can describe it. Not like a Y cord, that isn't what I mean. I'm not sure
how else to explain it. It makes the cord wider though by doing this. The
little L E D lights go all the way from the plastic lightning tip all the
way down to the plastic end on the other end of the cord. The USB end that
goes into the computer/mac/wallblock is really nice. The actual metal USB
male plug itself on the end of the cord is jutted out just a tad from a
plastic housing block which is around the end of the cord. No, it doesn't
get in the way. Think like an electrical transformer that goes in the wall.
You have the two metal prongs on the transformer itself. OK, now imagine
that, only instead of electrical prongs, think the metal USB plug instead.
That's basically what this looks like. The other end that goes in the
phone/IPad/Apple TV remote, or whatever, is much wider. Notice, I didn't
say thicker. I said wider. Even in my Otterbox case, where things are a
bit squished together on account of the way the case is designed, it's not
so wide it won't fit. It actually fits even better than the native cord.
When I push it into the lightning port on the phone, the click is so firm,
and so definite that it's incredible! Also, because of the extra wideness
at that end, it makes grabbing the plastic instead of the end of the actual
cord insolation an absolute breeze. I have fairly big fingers, yet even for
me, it's very very very easy to grab ahold of and gently, but firmly pull it
out.
So yeah, it's not a cheap cord, I'll grant you that, but the quality is
absolutely superb! I'd highly recommend these things. OK, they're only 3
feet long, but you could always get a USB extender if you really really
needed it.
Chris.
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