Belkin 67W Retractable USB-C Charger

A charger cable is apparently one of the few objects capable of becoming less available the moment it is needed. It is in the wrong bag, knotted around a power bank, or sitting triumphantly on the kitchen table while the train pulls away. Belkin’s 67W USB-C Retractable Charger makes a sensible attempt to end that tiny daily farce by putting a 1m cable inside the plug itself. The central trick is properly useful rather than merely gadgety: pull out the built-in USB-C lead, then wind it back into the charger when the charging is done. One additional USB-C port sits alongside it, so the unit has room for another USB-C connection without requiring a second mains socket. We think that is the right sort of clever: less inventory management, not another app demanding an account. It is compatible with USB-C phones, tablets, Chromebooks, MacBooks, Windows laptops and other USB-C or PD-enabled devices. That makes the Belkin a practical packing choice for the increasingly standardised collection of phone, tablet and work laptop that follows many people around. The 67W rating belongs in the conversation too, although the supplied information does not spell out how power is distributed with two devices connected, so we would not turn that into an imaginary charging race. There is, naturally, a catch concealed in the neatness. The cable is 1m long. That is a useful length at a café table, on a train or beside a sensibly positioned plug, but it will not rescue a socket installed halfway to Narnia. For the right bag-and-desk routine, though, this is a pleasingly tidy answer to cable chaos.