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Driinn cell-phone holder: another fine example of not thinking things through
On the surface, the Driinn (your pronunciation guess is as good as mine) looks like an excellent idea: put a cell phone holder right onto the power outlet where you're recharging the phone, guaranteeing both a place to put your mobile and that you'll never lose track of it. Sounds good on paper, but the only times my cell phone goes MIA are always when it's not plugged in, since if it's tethered to the wall, I think I'll have a pretty good idea where it is. And having a purple piece of plastic jutting out from the wall strikes me as more of an inconvenience, at least in the home décor department. I guess it's just as well that the website of the alleged designer, DutchUS, doesn't give you much to go on. If you want one, maybe you can contact one of the fine Dutch folks over at Driinn.com, a domain name that was no doubt pretty easy to get, and most likely came before the product itself.
Dutch US, via Random Good Stuff
By henry3 at 4:50 PM ON 08/14/06
Peter Pachal's review of the Driinn: Another example of not understanding the product
While it's true that the Driinn can help you keep track of your phone, Peter missed the product's main features - keeping the charge cord tidy, keeping the phone off the floor, off the counter and out of the puddle of spilled toffee nut soy latte. Right now, Peter's chair leg is probably rolling over the end of his charge cord while the rest of it snakes it's way from the wall socket across his desk and under his coffee cup before making a pretzel with his i-pod headset wires. All of that is solved by the $7 Driinn, which, by the way, is Dutch onomotopaea for the sound of a ringing telephone. How's that for thinking things through?
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