Introduction

When I opened up my original Nintendo Entertainment System, it came with a giant plug that often ate up an entire outlet.  This was my first wake up call to a "Power Brick".  As the years progressed, they started coming in various sizes and then, at some point in the 90s, moved to the middle of the wire.  While this fixed the growing problem at the wall plug, it now created a new problem of a literal brick somewhere in the middle of our cable.  Behind my TV, I now have a growing selection of these bricks, as they seem to come with just about everything.

When I can hide the brick away, it can become almost bearable, basically "out of sight, out of mind."  With something like my gaming systems, where it can be hidden away with ease, it's just kind of laughable.  When it's attached to my laptop, though, and meant to be packed away, it has nowhere to hide and is right in the forefront.  Ever since I first started using a laptop, I've been able to slide them into a bag or case, as long as I carefully wrapped up the wires and shoved the brick into a place it would fit.  With the briefcase I generally use, this could become a chore, as the brick would only fit in one exact way with the wires folded in an exact method, otherwise they added too much bulk and the case wouldn't close.

The Cooler Master Ultra Slim Notebook Adapter, or USNA 95 for short, smashes the idea of the power brick.  The USNA 95 is a palm sized, pocketable, power adapter, that comes with 9 tips to fit a wide range of laptops currently on the market, doing away with the typical large size we've become accustomed to, and shrinking down its size even more from their previous releases. The USNA 95 is nothing like what we've come to expect when we think of a product like this.  With an included USB port to power a myriad of devices, it not only makes it a perfect replacement but easily an amazing upgrade for something so many of us have come to just accept without thinking.