There’s something so beautifully simple about this Instructables hack: simply take a male VGA-VGA adapter and solder it to a spare USB socket, then plug it in. Voila! A USB charger for your laptop. Not, perhaps, universally useful, but for easy phone or MP3 player charging on the road, this seems plenty useful.
VGA to USB Power [Instructables]
…One of our engineers at Dell back when USB was barely 1.0 and the “U” still meant “Useless” demonstrated that the VGA port could be used to charge a device. I’m surprised someone hasn’t already marketed this, much less Monster claiming theirs can charge a certain Motorola phone quicker and more efficiently than anyone else’s.
Wow, thanks I really like this instructable! I’ve been playing with the Motorola Krave lately, and it’s such a HEINOUS PIECE OF CRAP that I find myself wanting to add more features, especially ones that show off my poor soldering skills!
I love how they add a huge protruding TSA-panic-enducing power tap to emulate USB when there appear to be two perfectly serviceable USB ports right there.
Brilliant, I like it, my dell latitude only has 1 usb plug, great stuff..
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