Plug Hub Corrals Cables, Declutters Cubicles

Give your feet space to live freely under your desk, with the Plug Hub

Sitting at your desk? Try wiggling your feet. At the very best, you will have snagged a toe on at least one stray power cable snaking around under there. At the very worst, you are now cursing my name because you just yanked the mains cable from your computer. Sorry.

Thankfully, there is a solution. It's called the Plug Hub, and it comes from the design-by-comittee (but in a good way) company, Quirky. The Plug Hub, invented by one Jared Joyce of Montana, is a box to tackle tangles. The case consists of a small closet-like compartment which overhangs an open base–it looks a lot like an espresso machine or soft-drink dispenser. The power strip sits on the base and the wires from the desk above dangle down through three holes on top.

Once inside the box, longer cable can be wrapped around winding posts, and when all is tidy, you just plug them into the strip below.

It's neat, simple and ingenious. My first though was that it should close down to cover the strip itself, but the enemy of cable wrangling is complexity. Plus, you can always quickly plug a guest device into a spare port on the strip while ignoring the rest of the box.

I test a lot of gadgets, so I have resigned myself to a life lived in a rats nest of plastic and wire. But for the better organized, $29 isn't much to pay for a desk under which you can wiggle your feet with freedom.

Plug Hub project page [Quirky]

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Original Page: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/plug-hub-corrals-cables-declutters-cubicles/

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