Fingers, A ‘Handy’ Way To Cut Cable Clutter
Fingers is a concept design, but it’s so simple and clever, and so easy to make for yourself with just a piece of stiff card and a pair of scissors, that it seems worth taking a look. It’s yet another desk-tidying cable manager, but you’re going to love it, I promise.
The idea behind Fingers is that it has, well, fingers. Plastic fingers which let your cables move easily between their non-existent knuckles yet which stop the plugs from dropping through. The concept also comes with a bunch of tags which will let you keep track of which cable is which, but these are also easily recreated in our ghetto version, by using masking tape and a marker.
If I need to explain how you might take a piece of heavy card or plywood and cut grooves into it, then you should probably be getting an adult to help you out anyway. I have greater ambitions for this project, though, which means cutting the grooves into the edge of the desk itself. As this involves marble, I actually don’t have any idea of where to start. But no matter: my cables can’t fall to the floor any more than a single hair can wriggle its way free of a dreadlock.
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Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via 
