Something similar to this stuff:
http://cableorganizer.com/wire-duct/

I’d recommend bypassing the CORDination Station and suggest instead bundling up your excess cords with zip ties. Take a deep breath, shut down your PC, disconnect cables and secure them one by one, and you can tame that rat’s nest in just a few minutes. You’ll acheive just about as tidy a look and have $60 spare to apply towards something really useful – like a DVD burner!

The Power Strip Liberators (from Cyberguys) that strider_mt2k mentioned are indeed quite handy and well worth having a few spares on hand.

Also, if the door to the enclosure has to be open at all times, why not simply omit an essentially useless ‘feature’ that’s only likely to either get in the way or end up getting snapped off accidentally?

[INDENT]Review: Good! [/INDENT]
[INDENT]Product: Not so good [/INDENT]

Rob

And some other cool power stuff:
http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchproducts.asp?s=SP&dept=lch28&search=&child=

Hey, we’re all entitled to our opinions right? As for the pigtails, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen them. Do you have a picture so I can see what we’re talking about?

They allow AC Adaptors to be plugged into outlet strips without losing outlets to the bulkiness. Some of the nicer ones also have outlets on the back side of the plug, so that you not only reposition your AC Adaptor, but you don’t even lose the outlet!

Looking at the review again I realize that I’m seeing this product through a fairly overequipped geek’s eyes, and that most regular folk would probably get good use out of this item.
SO while it’s not good for me, it doesn’t neccessarily mean it’s not good.

(Sorry if it was implied.)

Great follow up!

I recieved some comments back from the manufacturer regarding the review which may be of interest:

Julie – many thanks for the kind words…and your observations are
right on target. The reason that there aren’t any cable “guides” in
either access door is that the UL certification is based on proper
venting. The only way to insure the unit is vented is to make
sure one of the doors remains open while in use – hence the fact that
the unit’s power cord begins its “journey to the wall outlet” from
inside the unit, not outside. If you’re using the CORDination
Station, then its power cord is going to require one door to be
open. And we agree with the issue of power bricks/transformers
inside the enclosure. Our original prototype design was slightly
higher, but our feedback was that it was too big. So we’ve started
selling a 6-inch power “pigtail” so an oversize brick can be placed
immediately outside the unit, and the associated cords could still be
wrapped up inside. It’s a tradeoff.

I would be interested in seeing the ‘pigtail’. I’ve left the CORDination Station plugged in as showed in the pictures. I may try to stuff even more stuff into it when I’m ready to move back into the office after the remodel is finished next week.

While it DOES help clean things up, it doesn’t go far enough to do it. It needs to be bigger if it really means to accept techie plug-ins. That means AC Adaptors, and as was shown, it doesn’t cut it.

The review was okay, but not critical enough of this product’s shortcomings.

http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/cordination-station-review.html

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