Your home may be full of appliances that would be very useful in the yard, but bringing them outside might be dangerous for ...

For anyone with an older car who relies on 12V outlets to power their devices, these handy gadgets promise useful upgrades ...

Ever tried to plug in an appliance, only to realize you had the plug backwards on the first try? Modern outlets use this ...

It is normal to see a small spark when you are plugging an appliance or a charger into an electrical outlet. The small spark ...

Q: When I plugged my cell phone charger into a kitchen outlet, my phone didn’t start charging as it normally does—rather, it seemed that this one electrical outlet was not working. Is there something ...

Dear Pat: I was redecorating my family room, and I changed the electrical outlets myself so the colors matched. Now, one from a wall switch does not work, and another has intermittent power. Help! — ...

Q: I want to install an additional electrical outlet in my bedroom. On the other side of the wall is another outlet in about the same place as where I want to add the new one. Can I tap into the ...

February 28, 2006 Don’tya just love a simple and clever solution. One of the legacy items in every home that just never seems to get updated is the electrical wall outlet or power socket or whatever ...

Did you know that your regular wall outlets could be so much more useful? Imagine this: instead of just 2 outlets, what if ...

Power grommets revolutionized the way we think about our relationship with power outlets. Why allow your design to be held hostage by the location of your wall plates when you can install power and ...

Sony is building a new kind of power outlet that raises a not entirely pleasant prospect—in the future, plugging a phone into a public wall socket might require authentication and take a chunk out of ...