There will be many obstacles on the way to the promised single cable type USB-C utopia: new standards that aren't backwards compatible; USB-C sockets that outwardly look the same, but aren't ...

So a few months ago, I stumbled upon a thing at Adafruit.com called a "Charger Doctor" which was really just a Multimeter designed to slip inline with your USB cable. It was $7.50 and I liked it.

Satechi couldn’t have picked a better time to announce its USB-C Power Meter. Early last year, Benson Leung of Google’s Chromebook Pixel team discovered some troubling results when he systematically ...