A single cable with swappable connectors wants to replace all your wires

Travelling for work usually involves bringing along a small mountain of electronics, each with cables that need to tag along too. But a new Kickstarter promises to replace them all — power, video, and audio — with a single multiheaded cord that can handle any connection.

Universal cables with swappable connectors aren’t new — but what sets the TOB apart is that it claims to transfer data, audio, video, and power too.

Inside the nylonwrapped cable are a combination of heavy gauge copper wires surrounding an optical f ibre core. How exactly those are laid out is presumably the secret sauce to what makes the TOB capable of handling different tasks. The TOB cable has already reached its $20,000 (Rs 12.4 lakh) goal, and you can preorder a five-foot version for $ 65 (Rs 4,000) with delivery as early as July. That includes Lightning, microUSB, miniUSB, regular USB, audio, HDMI micro, and standard HDMI connectors.

Just keep in mind there’s a lot of advanced functionality being promised here, so you might want to hold off until we see more than a promotional video touting all its theoretically wonderful capabilities.