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Kiss your blistered fingers and headaches goodbye–tangled cords are a problem of the past as long as you use Flexicords. If you’re someone who sets up and breaks down your television, home theater kit, laptop, or desktop computer, Flexicords’ coiled design eliminates the need to measure exactly how much cable you’ll need to hook up your gear.

The cables come curly and extend out up to 10 feet, ensuring that you have just enough slack without any excess clutter.

Flexicord offers cables for just about any application, including USB, phono jacks, S-video, networking cables, and HDMI. Once extended, the coils retain their shape thanks to a thick pipe cleaner that bends alongside the cable itself.

Finally, each wire comes with its own “recoiling tool,” aka an inanimate plastic rod that helps you coil it back up. Prices vary depending on size and maximum length, but they all generally cost around $20, with the exception of the 10-foot HDMI cable that goes for $34.

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These tangle-free LaCie Flat Cables must work because they managed to slip by our sticky fingers at the time of their release back in early December ’08. LaCie makes these multicolored neon cords in a variety of interfaces, including:

• USB A to B
• USB A to Mini B
• USB A male to A female
• FireWire 400 to FireWire 400
• FireWire 400 to FireWire 800
• FireWire 800 to FireWire 800
• eSATA to eSATA

A French design firm enlisted by LaCie came up with the flat strip shape that neatly folds into a coil to prevent tangles. The Flat Cables also come with 24 labels so you’ll never wonder what plug goes with a particular device again.

As always, though, design innovation and pretty colors (see: Apple) come at a premium: would you pay 10 dollars each for these cables? Sound off in the comments section!

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Laptop mice are supposed to be smaller than average ones to save space in your bag, but do they have to be so small that only Stuart Little can use one? I’d rather sacrifice a little extra room in my bag for a comfortable mouse, but Jasco offers a …

Originally posted at CES 2009

This year’s CES saw the release of Iomega’s Home Media Network Drive, a new addition to their line of external storage devices, joining the ranks of similar devices like the Iomega StorCenter and the Iomega StorCenter ix2, but with a few simple changes. First, the drives now come …

Originally posted at CES 2009

Dear Lexmark,

We’d like to invite you and one of your printers to join our secret society: it’s called Best 5, and although we don’t have perverted initiations, secret handshakes, …

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The current generation of compunerds is totally screwed. We (yes, I’m one of you) spend at least eight hours surfing the Internet on a daily basis, weekends included! Those YouTube videos aren’t going to watch themselves, right?

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On this episode of “When Laser Printers Attack,” it turns out your laser printer is not guilty of releasing noxious particles into the air, as previously reported by this Australian health alert (PDF) last year. The report claimed that some laser printers sporadically spew certain “toner-like” particles that pose the …

Back in September, we introduced you to Logitech’s newest diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks. CNET’s Rich Brown expressed confusion as to why we actually need a “for Notebooks” model, and after doing a full-length review, I must agree. There’s absolutely nothing about the diNovo for Notebooks that makes …