Do your electronics deserve their own landing strip? Before you completely scoff this thing off as a waste of space and money. Ponder this, it's bright, sculptural, and hides your power outlet. And, no more cords dragging over to the nearest tabletop. It's a movable shelf, for only $13.
Load-ding or "Load Thing" is made by a German company, and doesn't appear to be for sale in the US. We think its a clever cord-control solution, we just wish we could find it here. Oh well, we'll just have to keep it in mind on our next trip to Berlin (and become their offical US reseller.)
For more information, head over here if you speak German. It doesn't appear that they ship outside of Europe, but maybe some of you more fluent in German can confirm this.
Since it unfolds flat, this would be really great for travel. I hate having my phone sitting on the floor of a hotel room to charge.
view Anne in Chicago's profile
Indeed, as "Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika" is one of the options in shipping address drop-down, it certainly looks as if you could order it. I also love that plug-in usb adapter...is that something I can get here?
view One Eyed Daruma's profile
Thanks, I saw every country but that! :) Good point about the adapter, the older firewire iPods came with an adapter. But they didn't include this with the newer USB iPods, but they do appear to have them at the Apple Store.
view Kelly's profile
Slapping myself audibly on the forehead...of course that charger is available...I had only to consult the Apple site.
view One Eyed Daruma's profile
Finally - my high school German classes did someone some good...until now, I'd only ever used them to order Wiener Schnitzel at the Hofbrau Haus!
view One Eyed Daruma's profile
If I had something like this my cats would swipe my phone/MP3 player/whatever in the middle of the night and the gadget would be gone forever. Have to keep things up and out of the way from those little critters...
Yes, you can buy USB power adapters. Apple has one for the iPod that'll run you $30, but you can find them a little cheaper everywhere else. My inferior (to the iPod-loving crowd anyway) RIO MP3 player came with one and it's perfect. My wife eventually "borrowed" it for her iPod since it was much more convenient than hooking it up to her computer and I haven't seen it since.
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Edit: I meant to say you can find generic AC-USB adapters cheaper everywhere else. Not the Apple one specifically.
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So cute! It looks like a little hammock for your iPod or whatever!
view vrexy's profile
Is the material fire-proof? Electrical fire is no fun...
view spiffy's profile
Under "Versandkosten" shipping cost it says that shipping to other countries then the ones mentioned is not possible. And I afraid the list above this text only mentions European countries.
So even though it seems like they might ship to the US they apparently don't.
view benedikte's profile
UPDATE!!!
I e-mailed the company and asked them if they shipped to the US. Their reply is cut and pasted (verbatim, save the name changed to protect the innocent...love the salutation!) below:
Hell Mrs. Cxxxxxxx,
thank you very much for your e-mail.
Yes, we do ship to the US. We accept Amex, Visa and MasterCard.
Best regards,
Mit freundlichen Grüssen,
Fair-kaeuflich
view One Eyed Daruma's profile
sounds more like you're sharp-eyed daruma
view JonathanB's profile
I NEED ONE!!!
view Keisha Kornbread's profile
Not sure if they've just made an English translation of the site available in the last few days, but I was directed straight to the English-language version of the site, and found the shipping info there. So they do ship to the USA, but it isn't cheap!
International Shipping Address:
Shipments to the listed countries will be charges as follows (max. 50 kg per parcel, the quoted fee is true for parcels up to 15 kg, for heavier shipments there will be a surcharge at cost):
EUROPE:
9,00 EUR Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Luxemburg, Netherlands
14,00 EUR Switzerland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Liechtenstein
22,00 EUR Finland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia
75,00 EUR Greece, Turkey
75,00 EUR USA, Russia, Belarus**
120,00 EUR Australia, Honkong **
Shipping cost to countries not listed upon request.
** Max. weight 5 kg; for heavier shipments there will be a surcharge at cost.
For deliveries to non-EU countries Fair-kaeuflich.DE invoices the net amount (excluding VAT). Therefore, the recipient might have to cover for customs charges and import VAT.
It is beyond the scope of Fair-kaeuflich.DE whether or not foreign customs charges are levied.
view Juanalore's profile
Hi Folks,
my name is Max Kistner, I am the designer of load-ding. You find english text on the website www.load-ding.com !
Load-ding works at all sockets all over the world.
www.designtip.de ships load-ding worldwide up to 5 units for Euro 12.-
enjoy it
Max
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btw... no fire-risk ! :-) Max
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Hello,
We are Soulful Toaster and a proud seller of the Load-Ding, you can find the item under the Home Accessories section on our site -
www.soulful-toaster.co.uk
We are a UK company but can arrange delivery to the US, or other countries outside the EU, please email us for a quotation for delivery charges and we'll get back to you asap!
Soulful Toaster - Objects With Soul
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