Anchor Cable

What is it?

“The last cable you will ever buy,” says the creator. That’s plainly wrong, but Guru’s always been partial to a bold claim.

Go on then, what’s so good about it?

The Anchor Cable (£27) is clad in steel, for a start, making it look like a cross between an expensive garotte and something you’d use to unblock your pipes. This means the cable within is protected from severe bending, and it’s effectively impossible to tangle. There’s good, thick copper inside its steel sheath, the makers’ claim being that more substantial copper content improves device charging speeds by letting more electrical pixies through. GaGu suspects that’s plausible. And then there’s the magnetic tips.

Magnetic tips?

One cable, three potential tips: one USB-C, one Apple Lightning and one micro-USB, commonly used by Android devices. They snap on the end with neodymium magnets and, presumably, you could leave the tip in your device’s charging port when not attached to the cable. This should reduce stress on your hardware, particularly as the cable will break away on those frequent occasions that you stand up suddenly and fling your phone across the room.

You like it, then?

GaGu absolutely loves it. He’s bought a three pack. Were he to pick his usual holes, the length is possibly a little short at 1.2m, and the current demonstrations of its strength – a machine that wiggles the cable a bit, and a lady lifting up a cinderblock while holding each end – aren’t entirely convincing. That said, there’s a lifetime warranty, for what that’s worth on Kickstarter, so perhaps Guru needn’t worry.

How did it do?

The campaign didn’t drag, easily securing its production with over 10 times the £10,000 goal.