MagSafe lite: 6"-long USB connector can save your computer bacon

I can't speak for you but for me, the innocuous little bit of kit featured here has prevented a major computer disaster on more than one occasion.

Long story short: If you have a recent vintage iMac you will be familiar with the placement of the USB ports on the back of the computer.

All well and good and beautiful but if your computer is perched on a jury rigged stand five feet in the air in front of your treadmill, as is mine, well, it doesn't take the brightest bulb in the tree to realize that Gray Cat, exploring as is her wont or simply playing, may end up entangled in the rat's nest of cords and cables dangling below and pull the whole thing down.

Enter this nifty little extension cord, which I found amongst my computer stuff and used at first only because I needed a few more inches of length so my printer cable could reach the iMac.

Then I watched in horror as Gray Cat dashed across the room in pursuit of some imaginary mouse and snagged the printer cable, which then disconnected — not from the computer but from this extension which I'd plugged into its back.

Kismet.

I ordered three more instanter.

If you're using a laptop, someday you'll wish you had one.

A snip at $3.52, considering the alternative.