Cyberspace is the battle-ground of the future, we have already seen cyber-weapons like Flame and Stuxnet. Imagine what can be the outcome if technology allows someone to burn down/explode your computer just like a bomb simply by getting you to plug-in a USB drive?

Well the possibility is now a reality, 'The Killer USB' is for real and has successfully being demonstrated to burn down a computer just by inserting it in the USB port as explained ahead.

We shared the news about the any-side-in USB connector a few days ago, the new design just got standardized and will take time to reach consumer products. However, Apple seems to have gauged the frustration of users and have already provided a solution for a reversible USB cable which will work with existing ports (most probably under backward compatibility mode) and won't mind the side you plug it in. A new leaked image from trusted source Sony Dickson who has managed to leak correct details about Apple products earlier shared the image as shown below having the new Apple Lightning Cable with a reversible USB connector.

Majority of us must have cursed the "one-way-in only" approach of USB ports, specially when working in those hard to reach places on a computer. Thanks to the now finalized new USB 3.1 specification, the reversible USB Type-C standard would be the next upgrade to the technology offering users the ease to shove the cable any-side they want. Almost similarly sized to the current micro-USB Type-B connector specification, the Type-C version of the USB 3.1 standard will also feature data-rate of 10Gbps which is twice as fast as USB 3.0. The new specification also supports power-delivery capacity to carry upto 100 watts, easily enough to power a laptop.