This one is more for the life-hacking crowd than the gadget-loving crowd, but the simplicity, ingenuity and plain good-looks of this little cable management hack make it worth showing off. It also plays right into my cable-tidying obsession, meaning I couldn't not post it.

This binder-clip cable-saver comes from David Rudolf Bakker in the Netherlands, and is something you could replicate right now just by rummaging in the junk drawer. The clips clamp onto the edge of your desk and you thread power, ethernet and USB cables through the fold-back loops by disconnecting them temporarily from the clip body. That's it: your cable will never escape down the back of the desk again, and will instead be held patiently at the ready to be plugged into you notebook. Those wire loops are even big enough that the cable itself won't snag as it is pulled through.

I don't have any clips, having given up on paper some years ago, but I do have cables. Lots and lots of snaky, tangled cables. I shall visit the stationery store today.

No more USB cables behind your desk for losses [Lifehacking via Lifehacker]

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