The reversible USB Type-C standard has now been finalized, which should save the world untold man-hours in mis-plugging.
Roughly the size of a current micro-USB Type-B connector, it uses matching rows of contacts on the top and bottom so that you can shove it in either way around. Type-C is a version of the 10Gbps USB 3.1 standard (twice as fast as USB 3.0), but slimmed down for compact and mobile devices.
Read here:
http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/13/...d_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget&ncid=rss_semi
Roughly the size of a current micro-USB Type-B connector, it uses matching rows of contacts on the top and bottom so that you can shove it in either way around. Type-C is a version of the 10Gbps USB 3.1 standard (twice as fast as USB 3.0), but slimmed down for compact and mobile devices.
Read here:
http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/13/...d_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget&ncid=rss_semi