USB Cable Organizers Marred by Childish Design
Posted in: Accessories and Peripherals, Today's Chili, usb
Quirky is the company that designs gadgets by committee, only the committee consists of everyone on the internet. It specializes in simple, neat and usually stylish solutions to small problems, like the iPod Nano kick-stand or the iPhone Beamer case with a built-in LED lamp. Now Quirky has turned its community-sourced focus on another tech annoyance: USB cables.
If you own a computer (and I’m guessing you do, unless you have a generous friend who prints Gadget Lab out for you daily), then you are fully aware of the problem of USB cables. They tangle and twist, knotting together into a serpentine convolution of wire and plastic. Worse, you never know which is which, and you end up tracing the wire back from the peripheral you want before you can plug it in.
Cable Caps fixes both these problems with characteristic elegance, although without the usual Quirky style. Annoying (”cute”) characters anthropomorphize the usual devices like printers, cameras and, erm, eggs. You slip in the corresponding cable to allow easy identification, and the trailing “tail” of the caricature is a rubber band that can secure a bundled wire.
Like all Quirky products, there is a minimum number of orders required before the production lines are fired up. You can pre-order them for $8 per set of three.
Cable Caps [Quirky. Thanks, Tiffany!]
See Also:
- Kickster Adds Stand, Handle and Case to iPod Nano
- Beamer Makes a Case for Flash on the iPhone
- Cute Fold-Up Tripod is Also Rather Tacky
- Powercurl Cord-Winder Makes Magsafe Heatsafe
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