Apartment Therapy Tagged: cords

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...

Try Cable Lacing to Get Loose Cords Wrapped Up

Tried and true in the telecom industry and in naval and aerospace applications, we don't see any reason why you can't try cable lacing to keep your media center or workspace wires under wraps!...

Use Spiral Notebook Binding to Manage Wires

What do we have here? Well it looks like a simple solution to a common problem using only stuff you've probably already got collecting dust in a closet somewhere. We'll file this one under "Why didn't...

A DIY Sleek Desk that Hides All Your Goodies

We have to say—nothing makes our day more than spotting an easy and cheap solution to our everyday home tech woes. Case in point: Unsightly peripherals and tangles of cord are given the "Out of...

A Great Way to Travel With Your Electronic Gear

When you are traveling, it gets hard to track all of your electronic gear. It doesn't take long for people to just throw them all in a bag and forget about them. That makes retrieving them almost impo...

Keep Extra-Long Cords In Check with a Chain Sinnet

There's tons of solutions for hiding the cords that tangle behind your computer desk or media center (We happen to favor the DIY rain gutter method, ourselves). But some wires, like headphones and per...

Use Rain Gutters to Wrangle Under-Desk Wires

BEFORE. Click here for the "after" shot.Above is the "before" shot of Lifehacker reader Seandavid010's tangled mess of a desk. But he got a new desk and a new outlook on cord management when he decide...

Velvet Media Bags Are Great For Storage, Travel

We give plenty of thought to storing all of our tech parts and pieces, coming up with easy and inexpensive solutions like repurposing old photo storage boxes. But it's nice to see that we're not alone...

NY Times Untangles the 'World of Cables'

So, admittedly, some of us are not all tech experts. Even though we love a sleek MacBook and couldn't do without our iPod dock, we aren't exactly well-versed on all things home tech. Like we still get...

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...

The Perfekt Desk is Apparently Emo

What is the perfect desk? Does it have plenty of desktop space? Lots of storage space? A great cord-management system built-in? Technology-appropriate clean lines and modern touches? What if the perfe...

Tetsuo Shibuya Drop Desk Accessory

Japanese designer Tetsuo Shibuya came up with the Drop as a space efficient way to store away paper clips, using the normally unused space underneath desks with a colourful magnetic drip-drop form. B...

Look! Wooden Beaded Electrical Cord

Here's an interesting idea posted over at AT Boston as a Hot or Not: adding large wooden beads as a decorative element to electrical cords, effectively hiding away the unsightly necessity with some co...

Modular Power Sockets: Mix and Match to Create Your Perfect Power Strip

I think that everyone has the same problem when it comes to power strips. Usually, you never have enough plugs for everything that you want to plug in. So you buy another one to plug it into the first...

Future Shelving: A Great Way To Charge Your Gadgets

Shelving hasn't changed much in the last 50 years. There's nothing more boring than picking up a pair of shelves from Ikea and putting them in your pad. Most of the time, you have to mix and match and...

Vine Cables: So Green That They Grow on You

I've never seen a good looking cable. Cords and cables are always unseemly. You just want to hide them away behind a desk or a closet. The fact of the matter is that our modern lives are intertwined w...

IDAPT Charger Makes Wires Dissappear

If Unplggd was a superhero—perhaps we'll call him The Unplggd Avenger—his platform would be to rid the world's homes of ugly tech and his only weakness, his Kryptonite we should say, would...

Two Ways of Cutting Down on Cable Mess

We all have problems with cables. The problem is that there are just so many of them, it's so easy to get the infamous cable octopus and not know how to take them apart anymore. It's a mess, and the o...

Keep Your Kitty Away from Your New iPod

We learned the hard way that pets and home technology should be kept separately. All it took was a new chew-y little bunny rabbit and a few delicious forgotten floor lamp cords behind the couch to fig...

Belkin Energy Saving Power Outlet

As you may already know, leaving many of your devices plugged into a wall socket or power outlet means that they are consuming electricity even when you aren't using them. This adds up if you have a l...

Bonsai Solar-Cell Charger

In the quest of keeping all of your gadgets charged up, nothing would be quite like using a bonsai tree that uses the sun to juice them up. Vivien Muller came out with this great concept to charge you...

DIY: Drawer Becomes Hideaway Charging Station

Pesky wires are always a problem with modern gadgets. All of those gadgets need to be charged. Strabes found an interesting solution to this problem. Strabes turned a drawer from a nightstand into a h...

Hot or Not? Cord Cozy

This cord cozy reminds us of this week's earlier post on tangled electric wire lamps. Now if this cozy was made by the graffiti knitting gang, Knitta Please, you could consider it a work for art. But ...

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