Cables

I work in the IT industry, and I can tell you that the primary driver for wireless technology is the bloody mess that wires inevitably make. Somewhere in my files is a photograph of the datacom patch panel at our old office, a legacy left by my inept predecessors, which consisted of several hundred twisted-pair patch cables permanently intertwined into a spaghetti-like mass. So impenetrable was the maze that changing a patch meant simply disconnecting the existing cable and adding a new cable, leaving the old cable entangled with its peers like a bit of dead skin in need of exfoliation.

Today, while googling for some power outlets that I could integrate with our conference table, I stumbled across cableorganizer.com, which is a panacea for those plagued with messy masses of cables. I can already feel my discretionary budget leaking out of my department, while visions of orderly, encased cables dance in my head...