Werewolf transformed my old gadgets into USB-C powered ones
When I haul my 27-inch desktop monitor into the garage to film fun gadget videos … or want to play Japanese SNES games with friends
When I haul my 27-inch desktop monitor into the garage to film fun gadget videos … or want to play Japanese SNES games with friends… or lose the AC adapter for my old external hard disk… I can now power them with a USB battery instead.
None of them came with USB-C ports; the entire USB protocol was barely a twinkle in its creator's eye when Nintendo shipped the Super Famicom in 1990! But a tiny programmable dongle, from a company called Werewolf, can transform old power ports to accept USB-C electricity.
I'm so impressed, I just bought a second kit for a friend's birthday. With these dongles, there's no surgery required to add USB-C. You …
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