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Posts tagged “power strip”

Art Lebedev's Rozetkus 3D Socket Cuts Down On Wires

Art Lebedev's most recent project is a refresher on their Rozetkus power strip. What's really interesting is that it's more than just a socket. It can deploy an additional 4 sockets from its midst. Fu...

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!"...

An Easily Accessible Floor Outlet

With our recent home office redesign, we pretty much hid away all our outlets. On one hand that's a great thing, since visible wires and cables were the bane of our existence. But we realized we do oc...

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 ...

Pottery Barn's Wired-Up Beadboard Desk

Man, Pottery Barn sure knows how to get us techies going. They're always on the scene with some small (like a power station) or big (like a projector-screen-bookcase) solutions to help us integrate ou...

Power Strip Diversion Safe

We're used to a power strip protecting our electronics from sudden power spikes and surges, But we've never heard of one that can protect our jewelry, small valuables and extra cash......

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 ...

WattBlocks: Like a Wooden Stake for Your Gadget Vampires

One of the easiest ways to save energy—for your planet and your wallet—is to cut power completely to those gizmos that use "standby power" even when they're turned off. Look at your DVD pl...

Novanta: A Workstation for the Future

I used to have this huge Ikea desk in my office, which took up a large portion of it. It was huge, fit in a corner and extensions could be easily added. The trouble with large desks is that they becom...

A Surprisingly Stylish USB-powered Lamp

The power strip behind, under, or attached to your desk is probably packed. With your laptop, iPod speaker dock, phone charger, camera charger, computer speakers and printer plugged into it, how could...

Power Strip with Adjustable Sockets

Yes, yes, yes. We never thought we could get excited about a power strip, but man this has been a long time coming. Finally a surge protector that can accommodate large power plugs without forcing yo...

The Artecnica Wirepod

Aaron over at ATNY sent us the info about this wild four plug outlet electrical power strip from Artecnica revealed in Milan, one in a series of products in their Wiremore line. The baroque shape isn'...

Free Wires: Customizable Power Cord

How many times have we been in need of an extension cord and power strip, but then discovered you didn't have enough cord length and outlets? We hate exposed wiring and cables anyhow. Free Lines appro...