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Device Charging Tray

Posted Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 7:42 am by Dave Moyer

Unclutterer found an extremely cool product on Amazon for $8 that’s designed for mobile phones but could be used for all sorts of other gadgets: the Driin Mobile Phone Holder.

Not only does it make charging cables look much cleaner (easily done with other solutions), but it provides a neat little tray for the gadget you’re charging!

It looks like it could easily be used for an iPod, Nintendo DS, or maybe a Palm handheld or any other device you have, and it comes in 7 colord: black, blue, red, orange, white (gray?), yellow, and blue. And at the price, it’s a great way to keep things clean. It seems highly plausible to me that this could somehow be modded to hang on the side of a computer to use with USB cables as well.

Clean, reusable cable organization: Bind-it Flags!

Posted Saturday, April 19th, 2008 9:10 am by Dave Moyer

Recently, Beth Skinner handed me a bin of these extremely cool clips she bought for me at Staples, knowing I am pretty much obsessed with binder clips. They’re called Bind-it Flags, and I instantly realized all the amazing capabilities they had! Not only did I replace my normal black clip I used for my “wallet” with a wider, slightly more stylish green clip, I decided that these could make excellent labels for those cables you have under your desk, rather than slapping stickers on everything!

I used some generic small stickers I found at an office store years ago, and simply stuck them on the clip, and clipped the flag onto the cables. Instant organization!

The benefits of using these clips go on and on:

• They’re reusable
• You can clip multiple cables together if you’d like to get even more advanced. (For example, if you have a bunch of cables routing to a certain computer, you can clip them all together and label them “Mac Pro”, or whatever you’d want to call it.)
• They have more uses than just cable “flagging”, like a wallet clip, as stated above.

I pondered using one of these clips for My Hipster PDA, but decided that the long flag wouldn’t assist in flipping through cards, and the clips are a bit too wide for that.

Can you think of any other ideas on how to use these? Have any other cool hacks for office supplies I haven’t yet thought of? Why not click that comment button and tell the world!