Though you shouldn’t be the one bringing a power strip — why can’t airports provide them? It’s just electricity — branch a 20A circuit into a bunch of individual outlets.

While flying to Sweden, there was a mother/son with an iPod plugged into the wall socket… they left to get food or something, I unplugged their iPod, plugged in my laptop, and plugged their iPod into my laptop. She had a confused look on her face that was priceless the first second she came back, but then smiled and laughed.

The confused look was probably, “Why hasn’t our iPod been stolen after we left it unattended in an airport?,” not, “Why has that strange man plugged it into his laptop?”

“One of the Chicago airports had an entire lounge section full of black leather(ish?) chairs that _each_ had their own set of outlets.”

And would it be any different if the chairs were white? Err, nevermind. Maybe there is such a thing as being too PC.

Entertaining tangent; While flying to Sweden, there was a mother/son with an iPod plugged into the wall socket… they left to get food or something, I unplugged their iPod, plugged in my laptop, and plugged their iPod into my laptop. She had a confused look on her face that was priceless the first second she came back, but then smiled and laughed.

Power strips are too bulky to regularly bring with you though. They’re awesomely valuable, but too cumbersome. Not adequate return on the cost of lugging it around.

I’d perfer to see a single power outlet on a plane though… that would be awesome.