Thread: Why did Kobo abandon the capacative touch flat screen?
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Old 07-07-2015, 03:22 AM   #163
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Originally Posted by frostschutz View Post
There are magnetic cables (wsken magnetic micro) but I'm not sure if they'd work for the Kobo (particularly the H2O) since the magnetic connector tends to be kind of fat. The idea is nice though, leave one part always in the port, and allow the magnetic connector to break of if anything yanks on the cable. Nothing breaks. Never tried it though so not sure if it works like that in practice.
The magnetic power connectors ("MagSafe") that Apple use on their laptops work very well on my 2 MacBookPros. The latest version is thinner than the original.

However on one recent model Apple dropped the MagSafe connector and has switched to using USB Type C instead which is even thinner. (But not magnetic.)
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