Flexicord cables get bent... and stay that way
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jan 13th 2009 6:44AM
posted Jan 13th 2009 6:44AM
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STOP KILLING MY CHILDHOOD
Pokey
I heard that Gumby was arrested for heroin smuggling a few years ago.
Seriously.
Is it too much to ask for a train that pulls it's own track underneath itself?
I guess that makes Pokey a coke mule.
Strider,
They already make such a thing, they call it a tank
this cord is pokey approved
Damn blockheads.
This is incredible. Want now. In the UK
This is too much to ask isn't it? :)
...or you could just spiral a pipe cleaner around the offending cable. Will work for any cable you already own with any known connector ;-) Since pipe cleaners come in various colors you can also color-code your cables this way.
Pipe cleaners also make great color-coded cable ties and are ideal for attaching cables (and other lightweight objects) to pegboard. And they are dirt cheap, available from craft stores. (You can usually find a craft store in the same mall as that Best Buy/Circuit City/Fry's you were going to visit anyway...)
I don't know why pipe cleaners don't get more love around here -- they are a cheap'n'cheerful solution to a lot of messy problems in my wiring closet.
You're a pipe cleaner salesman, aren't you?
Nah. I think he is a Chewlie's gum representative. Cancer Merchant! Cancer Merchant!
I like this - the cord is always the perfect size.
Wow... so now I can buy a cable that is 5 metres too long and twist, and twist, and twist it around itself so it finally ends up a usable 1 metre long, not to mention incurring the loss in quality that overly-long cables bring. I can't wait.
5 meters?
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/19/0,1425,sz=1&i=198620,00.jpg
lucky then this is hdmi and neither length nor material influence what your telly displays and squirts out of its speakers.
Stefan, I personally don't know, but here's what I once read.
http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/how-long-can-hdmi-run.htm?hdmiinfo
Congratulations, Steve, on posting something that shows that not only don't you understand the nature of the product in any way, but also that you don't really understand technology.
Stefan.
You clearly know F**K ALL about cables.
I trust you are NOT involved in ANYTHING involving electricity.
It'd be for the best.
Steve: digital signals will not degrade over such a short distance of cable as 5 metres, even if that cable is of mediocre quality.
Stefan: though for all reasonable applications you are correct, if you have to go a long way on an HDMI cable (about 15 metres), the signal can develop some self-induced interference, causing distortion. However, that distortion would be obvious, as it comes in the form of missing pixels or big, blocky, garbled squares on your screen.
Dervheid: maybe Stefan was technically incorrect, but for most intents and purposes, his understanding of digital signals was adequate to correctly recognize that the difference between a 1-metre and 5-metre HDMI cable would be non-existent.
Dervheid: It might be wise if you sold your own cables and anything attached to them and used that money for some good anger management therapy. Best not to give yourself a heart attack over some post on Endadget. Well, unless it is a post even slightly related to Apple vs. Anyone. And then, all bets are off.
Wait. Is this flexi-cable pro or anti-mac? My iPhone is better! Take that! (preemptive strike)
Actually regular USB maxes at 5 meters does it not? and when using USB2 you might lose some speed or functionality depending on the quality of the cable, and HDMI and S-VHS doesn't like to go that long either, I think for both 10 meters is getting sketchy?
So his remark isn't THAT daft.
And to think digital signals are not affected by the length of the cable is rather naive I'd say.
Although for cat5e it's of course a different story, that can do 300 meters (I think, from the top of my head)
Why did this take so long to be invented?
who the hell's pokey?
Thanks for making me feel old.
this is surely a sign of the downfall of society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokey_(Gumby_character)
For what a better, pokey free society
what is this world coming to? this even makes me feel old and im nearly 22
Seems a slightly weird name "Our cables are stiff, let's call them flexi-something"
Never heard ofthis little red ...horse? ...I feel young!hahaha! Too bad for you old man(woman)!
Wow, that horse is awesome! xD
I'm sorry, it's called E-Fillate?
Oh...E-Filliate. Missed that i, that's important.
definitely one of those "why didn't somebody think of this sooner" ideas. Would buy!
I need a 4" flexicord 3.5mm to 3.5mm that will hold a nano up behind a Tivoli radio. Will someone make it for me?
Just get your 4" cord and lay it down and (Electrical) tape some pipe cleaners onto the appropriate length of the cable... Should do the trick.
Or, for a nominal fee, if you want the optimal true to life acoustic reproduction, spiral weave some extra-thin copper-hydrogen infused wire around the around the cable, keeping the apex of each successive loop in centimeters in concordance with the appropriate fibonacci sequence to ensure that sound waves can be propogated in the harmonious way that nature intended.
Noel Lee
a few years ago.
A step in the right direction. ....did Pokey donate himself to science? He's been dead a while.
test
Your test was a success. Are you happy now?
They have yet to invent ANY cable that plugs in easily, holds securely and slim and flexible. Look at the ends on that HDMI cable...it's huge. If I was to put that cable into something horizontally, it would probably break off eventually, that thing is huge.
Ever heard of BNC and coax? Great stuff.
I would love them for some of the cables inside my box. It would be so nice to have SATA or power cables I could route through my box so that when I have to work inside, I wouldn't have to hold the cables aside while trying to do something.
I never understood the real benefit of this cords. Sure they make a long cord look shorter. However, I'm sure you lose some length in all those coils. Plus, the strain this puts on both ends connectors has to be greater than the straight cables. Pass.
this isnt the type of cord your thinking about, it doesnt pull back into its original shape (the coil) instead you bend it how you want it and it stays in that position so you would not be losing any length if you bent it straight and there would be now strain on both ends if you bend it to the right length
Does that cable in the photo have HDWI stamped on it to anyone else?
Yeah it does. It looks like someone flipped the image horizontally.
It looks like they mirrored the image at some point in time...OR THESE AREN"T HDMI APPROVED AT ALL!
(I support the use of a double quote in place of an apostrophe when putting a contraction into a statement that is typed in a screaming voice. Nuts to you, MLA)
cables... pffff
how 21st century
I think its a good idea, but honestly, why hasn't this been out longer?
I don't think it's that great of an idea when you have lots of cables running from your system.
That is precisely when it's the best idea! Because that's when you can bend the cables into separate side-by-side rourtes without getting them all tangled up (which, by the way, isn't so hot for signal crossover either), and the cables will stay in that user-bent path. It's like a bunch of 1/4"-wide "snake lights".Why would only a few cables be better? Then you can just drop them behind your system and have no mess to worry about...
Well what I was thinking about is when they tangle. It makes me think of untangling a slinky.... :S
I'm Gumby, Damn it!
Doesn't this create stray inductance? I'm just sayin...
I'm Gumby, Dammit!
i hate these kind of cables, they suck, and pull your items and shit.
It is too bad this is not a cable that would make people RTFA.
Why won't the upload pic work to change my avatar ar a r ar argghhhhhh!!!!
Hi! Billy Mayes here for Flexicord!