{"id":731,"date":"2008-09-20T00:12:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2008-09-20T00:12:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:12:12","slug":"imaginary-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2008\/09\/20\/imaginary-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mockett.com\/default.asp?ID=4&amp;action=detail&amp;partCode=PCS38\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 5px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/20mockett.png?w=730&#038;ssl=1\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Why doesn&#8217;t somebody make this?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s a power strip<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a network hub<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a USB hub<\/li>\n<li>You clamp it onto the back of any desk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This would make it easy to plug in laptops, USB peripherals, and all your rechargers at your desk without crawling around on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>(The photograph shows a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mockett.com\/default.asp?ID=4&amp;action=detail&amp;partCode=PCS38\">product by Mockett<\/a> which comes tantalizingly close, but which has knockouts for you to hardwire your own ports instead of built-in LAN and usb hubs.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why doesn&#8217;t somebody make this? It&#8217;s a power strip It&#8217;s a network hub It&#8217;s a USB hub You clamp it onto the back of any desk This&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2008\/09\/20\/imaginary-product\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Imaginary product&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83KNI-bN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}