Posts Tagged ‘cordmanagement’

Wireless Extension Cords

If I knew these existed, I would have them all around my house.

A wireless extension cord can beam to 300ft from a wall outlet to a satellite unit using microwaves in the 7.2GHz range - so it doesn’t interfere with wireless networks and Bluetooth.

I don’t think I need to get into how useful this could be - inside and out.

Warning: Even though these microwaves are about as harmful as… » Continue

May 18 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: cordless, cordmanagement, house, household | 8 comments»

Micro-Hack: USB Cords

Is it just me, or do you run into that situation often where you try plugging in a USB cord for something like your memory stick, or a peripheral like your scanner or your iPod, and you get it wrong the first few tries? Bonk. Nope. Bonk. Nope. Slot. That really started bugging me, so I took action.

This is so simple, I’m almost embarrassed to put it out as a… » Continue

June 15 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: cables, cordmanagement, hack, hacks, Lifehack, microhack, usb | 11 comments»