Comments on: Do you know about any good looking computer cables?

Question: Do you know about any good looking computer cables?

ouke — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:51:00 -0800

Do you know about any good looking computer cables?

I try to get rid of the cable clutter behind, next to and on top of the media pc. While all machines are more or less designed towards use in the living room, all cables are still big, nasty pieces of plastic. But we want thin cables and nice ones too! I do have a couple of apple usb and firewire cables that make my point. But they are very, very white. Are there any power or computer cables around that uses textile as a cover, for instance? Or with color? The same for power chords.

By: holloway

holloway — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:48:24 -0800

A squid power strip?

By: musicinmybrain

musicinmybrain — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:08:36 -0800

Going with the thinkgeek theme: perhaps a little tacky, but definitely shiny.

With USB, you might have luck with colorful/spiffy. With others, the best you can hope for is probably thin.

Oh, and network cable comes in bright colors and even in flat (I've seen this in Walmart, I believe).

By: Orb2069

Orb2069 — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:18:01 -0800

Have you looked at Lamp cord covers?

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:18:49 -0800

A bundle of zip ties goes a long way in cleaning up messy cabling. You'll find it's much easier to simply hide the cables beneath shelves, behind support columns, or underneath existing equipment than it is to make the cables look pretty.

By: trevyn

trevyn — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:04:34 -0800

If you like the Apple aesthetic, but not the white, they made some cool translucent rainbow power cables a while ago.

By: kc0dxh

kc0dxh — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:43:44 -0800

How about some white (or other color) split loom?

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:49:28 -0800

You might want to conceal your cables inside some wire loom. The stuff is split plastic tubing. You can get it in any color, and it gets cheaper the more you buy. It isn't small, but it does hide the rats-nest of cables.