How about all those different appliances with the exact same power cord? How believable. Still, the picture does drive home the point of the accessory.

Each set comes with 10 multi-colored detachable plastic identifiers, along with 24 icons and 12 blank sheets so you can make your own icons. There are also specialized sets available, like one that has more icons for gaming devices and one for home entertainment setups.

Dotz Cord Identifiers are available on Amazon for $6 (USD). Head to Dotz’ website to check out their other cord management products.

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The Hub will fit cords up to 3mm (about 0.12″) thick and 3.77ft. long such as USB cables while the Mini Hub is made for cords up to 2mm (about 0.08″) thick and 4.9ft long, like headphones. I’ll wait here while you go measure your cords and make those numbers mean something. No? Not going to measure? Okay then, let’s just watch this video:

If you want to see the awesome push-button action again, I suggest you watch this video instead. It’s just the demo minus the talking part. Both containers are made of aluminum, but the inventors – Chadwick Parker and Joe Huang – have yet to decide whether they’ll be shiny or anodized.

Head to Kickstarter and pledge at least $30 (USD) so you can be the first to own a Hub and Mini Hub. As of this writing the concept still hasn’t reached its target funds, but with almost two months to go and with such a sound idea, I’m willing to bet my life savings (i.e. nothing) that the Hub and the Mini Hub will see the light of day. And if the actual products end up being shiny then they’ll reflect the light of day to your eyes, promptly blinding you, rendering your touch-operated devices moot. At least your cords will be organized.

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I have a lot of those plastic wires to hold the cables together in a bunch. While these don’t really make things look better, it does make everything more organized and orderly.

Give your home a touch of green while hiding away unsightly and messy wires at the same time. Florafil cable covers are made of flexible rubber which was obviously inspired by vines.

The designer behind these up-the-wall creations is Tania da Cruz, who derived the concept from wanting to give beauty to an object that is usually left unadorned although functional (in this case, yes, it’s the wires.)

The Florafil is still a concept design for now, but who knows? We might see them crawling into hardware stores sometime soon.

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A new accessory is now available for the iPod, iPhone or any other device that uses headphones called the iLocket. The little plastic thingy has a hinged lid that covers a cord wrap you wind the extra cord around to get just the length you want.

On the back of the iLocket is a clip that you can clip to your clothing to keep the cable from flopping around while you exercise. The thing is pretty cool and I might actually try to exercise with my iPhone again if I had one. You can grab one on Amazon for under $5 (USD).

The Grassy Lawn Charging Station looks just like what it says – your front lawn. Your gadgets gracefully nestle between the tall blades of green artificial turf as they get charged by the hidden cords underneath the surface. Just connect any ordinary multi-outlet extension cord into the base and plug all your portable electronic devices into their charging cables through the grassy lawn on top. The container measures 11″(w) x 7″(d) x 4.35″(h), which should be enough to hold at least 3 or 4 typical chargers and their cables.

It’s available from ThinkGeek for $24.99 (USD). Just remember not to water, mow or fertilize this lawn, as your gadgets would not appreciate it.

Whether you think of it as the pulse of a beating heart, the waveform of your favorite tune, or the trend line for your stock portfolio, it’s definitely a conversation piece on any wall. The Beat retails for £40 (appx. $60 USD) over at O’Dowd’s online shop.

Surface Tension’s new hangUP arcade coat hooks use real joystick balls and buttons to hang up all of your coats, umbrellas, man purses and any other hangy stuff you have hanging around.

Coming sometime early this year, they’ll be available in 3UP and 4UP versions. You can pick your own joystick ball colors too. The standard models will ship in black walnut wood, but they’re happy to take custom orders for other materials too.

Me, I want one that looks like the front of an old Missile Command cabinet, complete with cigarette burns. It’s too bad you can’t hang a coat on a trackball. Pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but if you’d like to inquire about ordering one you can contact Surface Tension here.

You can also mark your video games, CDs, DVDs and gadgets with it, so you know when you bought them or when they’re due for maintenance, when to give/sell/throw them away etc. Of course you can use it to make two things one.

$12 gets you two Calendar Tapes (one for days and one for dates) and a marker. Write all your important dates and wallpaper your husband’s room with them so he won’t forget. He might still miss the date of your first fight or your first movie together, but tape can only do so much.

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The software uses an online database to make adding and searching for games easy. You just type in the title of your game and the platform it’s for and the search returns with a list. Select your game from the list and it’s added to your inventory, along with pictures, synopsis and other information that you freaks are sure to love. Their online database is robust, covering games from current gen consoles all the way to ancients like the Commodore 64. Since a game collector would probably have hundreds or thousands of games, the software’s maker Collectorz also sells a barcode scanner to eliminate the hassle of typing and searching for games.

Aside from a customizable sorting scheme – you can sort your games by platform, by genre, even by your date of purchase – collectors can also contribute to the online database by uploading details of their games. You can also mark your list of games with statuses like “not in collection”, “on order” or “for sale”. Since the Pro version of the software is printable, this is a good way of comparing your collection with your 3 friends, of which one is your pet rat. Kidding. But for me the feature that really screams I am rich but lonely connoisseur is the loan manager.

Yes. It’s simply a list of whom you lent your games to and when. and their DUE DATE. IN.SANE. If you want or need the Game Collector, you can sign up for a free trial or purchase the game at Collectorz’ site. The standard version sells for $30 and will be emailed to the customer. But since Collectorz knows that realz hardcorez collectorz don’t want no standard crap, they also have a pro version: $50 for the software only, $70 for a CD plus something they call “premium support”.

You know you want it.

The most practical of the bunch is the Information Central pad, which helps you track things to do, people to call/e-mail, and other miscellaneous to-dos.

A little more whimsical option is the Daily Mood Tracker mouse pad, which keeps your mood swings in check from day-to-day. Now you can finally figure out if you really are an A-hole on Mondays and everyone’s best bud on Fridays. I get bad memories just thinking about having to fill in all those standardized test-like bubbles – and I forgot my No. 2 pencil, so I can’t erase!

Last, but not least is the Random Dawdle, which gives you a place to scribble down miscellaneous ideas, websites, drawings and other random stuff. I’m not sure what the point of the dotted-outline letters are, but I figure that just contributes to the randomness.

All pads ship with 60 tear-off sheets, giving you about 2 months of everyday use before you need to invest in a new mouse pad. You can grab all three designs over at Perpetual Kid for $9.99 a pad.

Bluelounge’s appropriately named The Sanctuary gives all of your portable electronics a single, tidy home that they can live in when you’re done running around for the day. Just set your gadgets on the reversible scratch-free surface, plug ‘em into the charging connectors, and you’re set.

Instead of trying to cram a bunch of factory chargers under the hood, Sanctuary provides a single charging bay and an arsenal of connectors which let you plug in just about any combination of devices you can think of. There’s also a USB connector for charging gadgets without proprietary connectors too.

In all, the $130 Sanctuary box provides connections for over 1500 gadgets, including phones, media players, portable gaming systems, digital cameras, PDAs and more. To see if your device can be charged by The Sanctuary, check out the compatibility chart here. It even comes in both 110-volt and 220-volt versions, so it should work in most parts of the world with no problems.

You can find The Sanctuary over at Charles & Marie (which just happens to be one of my favorite places to find really cool gifts online – be sure to check out their other wares when you drop by).

The charging station lets you charge up to three mobile gadgets at once, and can be even be wall mounted with just a couple of screws. It’s got plenty of room for AC adapters, cables and up to a 10-inch power strip (not included) hidden behind its sliding front door.

The box measures 13″L x 3.75″D x 5″H and the slots can hold most mobile phones, PDAs, media players and other small electronic devices. It’s available in solid white, black and dark blue finishes from KangaRoom, and retails for $40.

Woofy conceals cables inside his belly to keep all your wires nice and tidy. But Woofy is much more than a cord organizer. He’s the biggest party animal since Spuds McKenzie. He’s got his own Myspace page, complete with obnoxious nightclub music, he’s a real jet-setter and fabulously trendy. If you can forgive him all that, Woofy is actually a pretty cool way to hide your cable clutter.

You can get your own Woofy from Unica Home for $200. While that’s not exactly cheap for a plastic puppy, it’s a fraction of what you’d spend on a real dog. And besides, somebody’s got to fund all of his clubbing and travel expenses.

It looks like each one should hold about 10 discs, but I’d love to see a bunch of them in one place, holding an entire CD collection. The storage component is made from MDF, while the person is cast from resin.

Other designs include a little dude climbing onto the CD shelf, and another one one who’s holding them back from toppling over. They’re available from Wrapables for $39.95 each.

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The $489 BlueDot Divita Storage Tower holds up to 100 CDs or DVDs and lets you easily access them by disc name using the built-in 1.8″ LCD screen and numeric