BackPack Keeps Maccessories Off Your Desk

This thing is far more sophisticated than our wire-hanger-made DIY cord wrangler, but it follows the same general principle: Want to hide stuff on your desk? Do it behind the monitor!

The BakcPack is a handy little shelf that hands from the aluminum stand of your iMac or Apple Cinema Display. It will hold up to five pounds of external hard drives, USB peripherals or sync-ing iPods without damaging your monitor (The BackPack 'hangs' using gravity so it doesn't need adhesive and it won't scratch the aluminum).

It's even good-looking enough to be front-and-center for those of you with desks that face away from the wall!

Plus, it's height adjustable, and there's room on the back of most displays for two BackPacks. You'll never have an excuse for rowdy wires again. Grab one straight from the Apple Store for $29.95.

Via GeekSugar

Comments (4)

Or you could use, I don't know, like, umm, a desk drawer.

Innovative!

I love products that solve problems that we never had. Putting the pencil case behind the monitor makes it useful when you actually need a pencil.

posted by ErikTheRed on August 14th 2009 at 10:23am
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i like the idea for your external HD, but putting your phone, ipod, pencils, etc seems absolutely pointless. why would you want to have to reach around and contort your hands to get a pencil? that's just stupid.
regardless, for that price; no thanks.

posted by Matt. M on August 14th 2009 at 12:08pm
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I agree with the previous two commenters. I'm all for getting clutter off the desk, but if I have to get up out of my chair to reach around my monitor, I might as well keep all of that stuff on my shelving unit next to my desk.

This seems like a perfect hot or not poll. Definitely not.

posted by republic28 on August 14th 2009 at 1:34pm
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I'm all about this for an external drive.

posted by emily! on August 14th 2009 at 2:27pm
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