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Who Says Power Strips Have to be Boring?

Not us, that's for sure. Why not be a tech rebel and scream out from your urban dwelling, "I will not be ashamed to show off my Electric Man power strip! I will not hide my cords any longer!"...

"Coffee Cup" Car Power Station

We talk about apartments—a lot. But for those of you super-travelers who seem to live in your car, here's a tech solution for powering your gadgets......

Powermat: Wireless Charging is Bleepin' Here

Say goodbye to charging cord forests. If those recently released viral commercials haven't grabbed your attention yet, you too might find yourself exchanging some surprising f-bombs when you've taken ...

Use Superbooster to Turn Any USB Device Wireless

This is another way of getting some of your peripherals wireless. This is just a small device in which you can plug a USB peripheral so that it can wirelessly connect to your home network. It is worth...

Six USB & Power Grommets for the Desk and Kitchen

One of the most common questions we receive is about hiding cables and wires in and around the computer. With the myriad of accessories that many of us live and depend upon, plugging in and out USB,...

One Adapter to Solve Them All: Mac Mini Edition

If you happen to be one of the owners of a recently released Mac Mini, you've probably come to the realization that its video out (via mini DisplayPort) and audio out (via mini Tokslink) doesn't tend ...

Hide My Cables Custom Built Boxes

We love our IKEA SIGNUM cable box. It does a great job of keeping wires and cables out of sight (and was very affordable). But it also seems to have been discontinued. The Bluelounge Cable Box is a ha...

Omer Arbel's 22 Series Electrical Wall Accessories

Omer Arbel did something so wonderful no-brainer with his electrical wall plug designs: he made them circular. By just changing the standard outlet from the normal recognizable shape into a circular...

AmazonBasics Private Label Store

Looks like Amazon is setting to take on ultra-discount consumer electronics accessories retailers like Monoprice.com with their new private label, generic packaged AmazonBasics. The selection includes...

Power Bridge Turns Cord Management Upside Down

When your couch pillows get a little messy, you flip them over. When the coffee table gets a little cluttered, you might stuff some of that junk beneath the surface on a lower shelf. Why shouldn't we ...

Bluelounge Refresh Charging Station

Similar to the larger Sanctuary charging station, the newest compact Bluelounge Refresh is designed to keep your gear organized and fully charged while not in use (we think it's important to have a ...

iStubz iPod Cords: Useless and Necessary at the Same Time

The easiest way to battle cord messes in your home is to eliminate them entirely. That's why we dig wireless products so much. But if you can't go wireless, why not try and eliminate as much extra cor...

A Mini Docking Station for Small Cool Spaces

We love docking stations for their perfect balance of aesthetics and function. You've got a dedicated spot to keep all your gadgets, putting an end to searching the couch cushions for your cell phone,...

Cablox Cable Management

Cablox is a new cable management solution that fastens, bundles, shortens cables and sticks on virtually all clean surfaces for under the desk or anywhere else application. The tentacle suckers desi...

Look! The Incredible Portable Charging Mat

A typical home will have a bunch of devices that need charging every single day. We know that most of you just spread them around, splitting up wall sockets with power strips and getting the most out ...

Stream HD Content Through Your Home's Electrical Wiring

Want to leave wi-fi in the dust and stop having to snake ethernet cables all along the wall to hook up your vid game console or home theater PC to the internet? We've always been interested in giving ...

WildCharge Brings Wireless Charging to iPhone, 'iTouch'

We are already on the WildCharge bandwagon. What's not to love about a small, compact charging station that powers all your gizmos wirelessly when they're wrapped in compatible—but not obtrusive...

Bluelounge StudioDesk for Laptop Users

It's like the folks over at BlueLounge read our mind (or our site, hopefully) about our search for a new desk when they emailed us today with this batch of photos of their new StudioDesk, a workspace...

Richard Hunt's Sound Seed Ceiling Speakers

Normally we do everything in our power to hide away visible cables and wires springing forth from our home audio and video equipment. But in the special case of Richard Hunt's Sound Seed ceiling speak...

Blu Dot Juice Box

When we hear Blu Dot, we instantly think slick desks and slick chairs. Now we can add slick gadget charging accessories to that list. While we have showcased some nice DIY solutions to charging your p...

Dotz Organizers: Keeping Your Wires Clean

How do the cables under your desk look like? Or the cables and plugs near outlets? If you are like us, it's probably very messy. It's hard to keep things organized under your desk and near power plugs...

Bluelounge CableDrop Keeps Your Peripheral Cables In Check

Bluelounge's SpaceStation currently does a great job of hiding a lot of our peripheral USB cables (alongside providing additional ports), but we still have a tangle of cables and wires behind it leadi...

Wooden Laser Cut Earbud Owl: Keeps Your Wired Untangled

If you are like us, you hate having messy wires around. Things get pretty messy with the wires of our MP3 players. No matter how you roll them around, in the end, they tend to get tangled one way or t...

Tech Tour: Geneva Estate Chock Full of Goodies

Name: WÃ¥gensjö / Herberger Location: Geneva suburb (France) Size: 2,368 sq ft + 40,000 square foot garden Years Lived In: Since March 2005 >> Enter Slideshow What originally drew us to WÃ¥gensjÃ...

Camouflaged Cables

If you can't beat 'em, join em. With wireless power nowhere to be seen, we are not left with many power cord options. Try your best to hide them or learn to deal with seeing them snake around your des...