Give your phone a piggyback ride.

You know all those times you wish you could plug two things into one outlet? When it would be super-handy if your phone charger could piggyback on another plug’s electricity?

Like you’re in a hotel room, which for some reason all still feel like they were built in 1987 even though mathematically that can’t possibly be the case? So the, like, two or three outlets are all occupied by the lamp and the clock and the TV and stuff? And of course you didn’t pack a power strip or whatever, because who does that?

Or maybe you’re at home, and you have a lot of stuff plugged in and you can’t just leave something unplugged all day for your phone to charge, and you don’t want to add a whole power strip just to use one measly outlet, or you don’t have room for one of those outlet-doubler deals, or your family was evicted from your ancestral homestead to make room for a power strip factory and you’ll be damned if you give those bastards a dime?

Whatever the case, here’s this. The Bracketron Twist & Charge doesn’t plug into the outlet; its little plate twists (or really swings) out and goes around the prongs of something else that’s already plugged into the outlet to piggyback on that plug’s electrical current, and if that isn’t worthy of gratuitous italics then nothing in this crazy world is.

The whole thing’s 2.25" long and 1.25" wide, so it can just live in your carry-on unless and until you need to use it. And you get two, for the inevitable time when you leave it behind in a hotel room like a phone-charging Gideon.

The only other thing like it we’ve ever seen is called the Plug Bug, but that only works with certain MacBook plugs. This ingenious little piggy not only works with just about any plug, but it’s way way cheaper. Plus it’s a lot more fun to ride a pig than a bug.