Consumers should immediately stop using male-to-male extension cords, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which said that the products can cause electrocution, fires, and carbon ...

Male-to-male extension cords, sometimes called suicide or widowmaker cords, are dangerous extension cords that can kill or injure you. People sometimes use them during a power outage to feed ...

There is a reason male-to-male extension cords have been nicknamed "widowmakers" and "suicide cords." "If you put a male into a female socket, the other end of that male is going to be live," Paul ...

Electrical extension cords are tremendously useful for powering devices when your gadget’s power cord isn’t long enough to reach an electrical outlet. Normal extension cords have a so-called male plug ...

Powering our appliances and other devices at home, school, or work is now made easier thanks to the electrical extension cord. It serves as an annex that will connect the plug to an electrical outlet.