RYO Adapter

A Handy Gadget for All Your Plug-In Needs

Published March 10, 2015 | By Clark Norton

The white RYO adapter and the green Kushi flash drive, offered as prizes for donations. Photo from RYO Technology.

A reader from New Zealand alerted me to a new travel gadget — so new it’s still on the drawing board — that you can help fund on Kickstarter if you wish.

The gadget — which can be used at home as well as on the road — is a reversible USB adapter that plugs in to any USB port and works with all types of existing cables, whether for a laptop, a smartphone, a tablet, a portable hard drive, or what have you.

It’s called an RYO Adapter and it’s from a company called RYO Technology.

Why would you need a reversible USB adapter?

Well, how many times have you tried to plug in a USB cable and realized you had it in backwards so it didn’t fit?… Continue reading →