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Comments on: Gadget-laden travellers given free Heathrow juice

Value for money 

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 14:19 GMT

£300,000 for 47 nine-way mains adapters?

Even at Maplin's prices, I'd be hard pushed.

I do the same thing at Charlotte Airport 

Posted Thursday 16th April 2009 11:24 GMT

Can I have £10k please for my 5 way strip?

£300,000 spent?! 

Posted Thursday 16th April 2009 11:39 GMT

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How did they spend that much?

Power consumption? Er, yeah, take a big gaming laptop, and measure the power it uses while charging its battery AND playing crysis on medium. That's the most that each socket would reasonably use.

Design? Hmm, I could knock up something graceful looking in CAD that'd do just that job.

Cost to implement? Few days labour I'd imagine.

... I'd love to see them explain where that cash went! Just out of curiosity.