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Posts tagged “wires”

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...

Zip Up Earphones: No More Messy Wires

We all have this problem. The wires of our earphones connected to our iPods or MP3 players always get all tangled up. There is no way to get around this, unless you take your earphones off and put the...

Verpan Lighting: Using Wires... As Art?

While most of us are OCDC when it comes to stowing away our wires, but until everything goes wireless, we might as well embrace it. Or at least, that's what the team at Verpan Lighting has done with t...

Wolverine Makes a Damn Good Cord Wrangler

You gotta love scouring GeekSugar for random-but-brilliant observations. That's where we spotted a cool solution of storing your myriad of coffee table remotes in an elegant glass vase. Now, something...

Look! Concealing Speaker Wires With Wood

We're sure anyone who's set up their own surround speaker system will agree that rear speaker wires are the main culprit of ugliness in a would-be immaculate home theater system. Fear not! Here's a qu...

How to: Make a Toilet Roll Extension Cord Holder

We've got a drawer full of unruly extensions cords that we've been trying to unsuccessfully keep in order with rubber bands and twist ties. While looking for cable management solutions, we found a tip...

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...

DIY Cord Wrangler Hides Peripheral Wires

We all struggle sometimes with keeping a clean desk, some more than others. Me? I'm having an impossible time. I bought a great looking desk not too long ago, the only caveat being that it has no draw...

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...

Charging Station is Stylish, Sleek and an Easy DIY Project

The benefits of a charging station or docking station when it comes to removing visual clutter are incomparable, but this one is just asking to be added to the list of Easy Ways to DIY a Charging Stat...

Weird Wiring: Apartment Tales of WTF?!

After two "burned out" light bulbs and almost three weeks in a new apartment, I finally figured out that the reason my overhead hallway lights wouldn't work was not a problem with the bulbs. I kept fl...

JBL AIR: Frees Your Speakers From Wires

Speaker wires have always been a problem. They are rarely neat and they just restrict the placement of the speakers. JBL has come up with a way to make your speaker wires disappear, just like magic. T...

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 ...