Blue Lounge Cable Box Mini doesn't manage your cables as much as obscure them
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted July 8th 2010 10:21AM
posted July 8th 2010 10:21AM
As you well know, the gang at Blue Lounge will not stop until every man, woman, and child clears up that spider's web of cables that lay under, behind, or next to their desk. In order to further this mad mission the company's introduced something called the Cable Box Mini. It's a cable box, and presumably it's smaller than some other cable box. To be quite honest, we prefer this idea to more complex cable management systems: rather than run your cables through trays, or organize them with velcro wraps, you still make the same mess -- except this time the mess ends up in a box. Hit the source link to "Buy Now!" for $30, or head down to Target and pick up a plastic basket and an X-ACTO knife. PR after the break.
BLUELOUNGE LAUNCHES CABLEBOX MINI
New Compact Size and Vibrant Colors Provides Hidden Cable Use, Storage and Personal Expression Around the Workspace
PASADENA, CA - July7, 2010 - Bluelounge, the award-winning international design studio known for sleek, minimalist design home and office organization products including CableBox, StudioDesk, and The Sanctuary, today announced a new product SKU to its growing portfolio of functional home and office design products, the CableBox Mini, a predecessor to the popular CableBox. The CableBox Mini has a smaller form factor and comes in vibrant colors - ideal for the office and home electronics users with limited space around their workspace or for users who want to display the CableBox Mini as a personal expression on their desk.
CableBox Mini includes a short power strip/power surge protector for convenience. AC Adapters and surplus cable lengths are hidden away seamlessly within CableBox Mini's sleek, sturdy container. In addition to cable storage, CableBox Mini can be used to protect routers, hubs and other devices in its fire retardant plastic casing.
"We created the CableBox Mini for our customers who required the utility of the original CableBox product in a smaller form factor for the spaces they work and live in," says Bluelounge Principal and Designer, Dominic Symons. "The CableBox Mini provides a smart solution for those with limited space and multiple, grouped together devices that require a single power source. And its compact design allows for attractive, out-in-the-open placement and fits nearly anywhere -- on your desk, next to the computer, in the kitchen, bedroom or even hidden behind the desk. This creates a simple, versatile solution to hide cable clusters."
CableBox Mini is a simple solution, ideal for small spaces with big problems. It is available in a variety of colors including blue, green, orange, pink, yellow and white. The bright colors and compact size allow the CableBox Mini to be used on the desktop too. It organizes clutter into a single dust free container. CableBox Mini is 9" x 4" x 5" and retails for $29.95. Made from material that is fire retardant (UL 94).
To locate a retailer, please visit http://www.bluelounge.com/storelocator.php.
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About Bluelounge
Bluelounge, founded in 1999 by designers Dominic Symons and Melissa Sunjaya, is a multidisciplinary design studio that creates a synergy of product, graphic, interactive design and original illustration. Bluelounge products are distributed through over 100 U.S. locations and 17 international distributors, promotional agents and licensees. Bluelounge's design studios and administrative offices are in both Los Angeles and Jakarta, Indonesia. In addition to their own branded products, Bluelounge has undertaken design commissions for major corporations such as Airwalk, Microsoft, Panasonic, and Trina Turk. To view Bluelounge's portfolio of home and office product catalog please visit https://www.bluelounge.com.
New Compact Size and Vibrant Colors Provides Hidden Cable Use, Storage and Personal Expression Around the Workspace
PASADENA, CA - July7, 2010 - Bluelounge, the award-winning international design studio known for sleek, minimalist design home and office organization products including CableBox, StudioDesk, and The Sanctuary, today announced a new product SKU to its growing portfolio of functional home and office design products, the CableBox Mini, a predecessor to the popular CableBox. The CableBox Mini has a smaller form factor and comes in vibrant colors - ideal for the office and home electronics users with limited space around their workspace or for users who want to display the CableBox Mini as a personal expression on their desk.
CableBox Mini includes a short power strip/power surge protector for convenience. AC Adapters and surplus cable lengths are hidden away seamlessly within CableBox Mini's sleek, sturdy container. In addition to cable storage, CableBox Mini can be used to protect routers, hubs and other devices in its fire retardant plastic casing.
"We created the CableBox Mini for our customers who required the utility of the original CableBox product in a smaller form factor for the spaces they work and live in," says Bluelounge Principal and Designer, Dominic Symons. "The CableBox Mini provides a smart solution for those with limited space and multiple, grouped together devices that require a single power source. And its compact design allows for attractive, out-in-the-open placement and fits nearly anywhere -- on your desk, next to the computer, in the kitchen, bedroom or even hidden behind the desk. This creates a simple, versatile solution to hide cable clusters."
CableBox Mini is a simple solution, ideal for small spaces with big problems. It is available in a variety of colors including blue, green, orange, pink, yellow and white. The bright colors and compact size allow the CableBox Mini to be used on the desktop too. It organizes clutter into a single dust free container. CableBox Mini is 9" x 4" x 5" and retails for $29.95. Made from material that is fire retardant (UL 94).
To locate a retailer, please visit http://www.bluelounge.com/storelocator.php.
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About Bluelounge
Bluelounge, founded in 1999 by designers Dominic Symons and Melissa Sunjaya, is a multidisciplinary design studio that creates a synergy of product, graphic, interactive design and original illustration. Bluelounge products are distributed through over 100 U.S. locations and 17 international distributors, promotional agents and licensees. Bluelounge's design studios and administrative offices are in both Los Angeles and Jakarta, Indonesia. In addition to their own branded products, Bluelounge has undertaken design commissions for major corporations such as Airwalk, Microsoft, Panasonic, and Trina Turk. To view Bluelounge's portfolio of home and office product catalog please visit https://www.bluelounge.com.
Nothing says safe like shoving an overheated power strip into a little box.
@sweet greggo part deux
A woman I worked with (an IT admin no less) daisy chained about 15 Isobars together to get power to her office desk. One day we all heard a loud KaPow! and her shrieking. One of the Isobars had given up the ghost under the load. Sweet day that was...
@sweet greggo part deux
What about locking your four year old in an airtight closet full of cleaning supplies, loaded shotguns and whiskey?
@sweet greggo part deux : They weren't thinking inside the box.
@One Love
Oh you.
@One Love
bazinga
@ArhcAngel: Never let a US$3 extension cord do what 15 US$25 surge supressors can do...
i just use a paper bag to cover up the ugliness...oh wait...
@ArhcAngel,
Are you Roy, or are you Moss?
@ArhcAngel she daisy chained heat transfer pipes? Equal Atmospheric pressure systems? multiple nuclides with equal numbers of nucleons?
I've never heard of a power-strip being called an isobar (because it makes no sense) am I the only one?
@SirNoDroin
LOL no, you are not alone :) I for some reason imagined long chain of candy bards, mmm candy...
@Bratan oops I mean "bars", although bards would be funnier :)
Looks like a shoe box would do the job
@Nvtwist
step 1 - buy tub of ice cream
step 2 - eat and enjoy ice cream
step 3 - use empty ice cream tub as a cable storage or tidy area
step 4 - save $30
That would never work, where is the profit?
@Professor Hubert J Farnsworth : Step 5 - profit
It's the Schrodinger's cat of cable management. Are the cables neatly organized in the box or a twisted, mangled, knotted mess? You'll never know unless you open the box.
@FriarNurgle
Now there's some quantum mechanics I can theoretically wrap my head around.
@FriarNurgle I'm using that excuse next time my folks visit and question my cleaning system of shoving every loose thing I own into a random closet. Well played sir, well played!!
Nothing says "I've got my cables in order" like a bright yellow box.
@notfred
yep, very discreet solution!
From the outside the wires are obscured, but from the inside, the wires are obfuscated. :D
$30 for an ice cream tub?!
Blimey!
@djheath
You don't pay $30 for the box, you pay $28 for them sitting around all day thinking. All their products solve problems you could easily do on your own if you spared some brain power instead of some money.
a "cable box"?? that thing could be easily done with a Lucky Charms cereal box and it will also look magically delicious.
@DanielT
Apple may have something to say about the magicalnessness of that box.
This seems so pointless... Get an I've cream tub and paint your done
@Warpedflash
Wow...
I use a shoebox for many things like this. Cut down the edges, use the holes on the side for cable management.
I know it's wrong to have a network device in a box, but I put my network switch into a shoebox because I couldn't stand the lights lighting up my bedroom as night... it's worked fine for 11 months.
@The Albatross What happened after 11 months?
@jackjumper85 my house exploded.
Actually, I've only lived there for 11 months... so I should have probably written that out, "It has worked fine for 11 months and counting."
@The Albatross I used white hockey tape (A fabric tape) over the switch in my room, at night you can see that there's a light on, though it's not bright at all, sort of like a bedside clock.
Let me get this straight... you posted a press release for a box with a hole in it? This is breaking gadget news?
@Missing Matter I think they did it for the silliness of it. Humor is allowed here, right? :)
$30?! For that?
I wouldn't buy it if it was $4.99.
$30?!
Ikea had a "cable management box" for quite some time and it costs only 10$ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00138309
@hlidotbe
thanks for the link!
i love ikea!
That. Is fuggin ugly.
Sounds a lot like what we did when we needed to protect our snake from the audience for our musical (we had the sound board in the house and had to plug two snakes together to reach the booth). Except that was built out of scrap plywood and used 3-4 square feet of stuff that was gonna be thrown anyway and 15-20 screws.
So basically, what we have here is a box with a hole in it.
Slow news day?
I prefer to hide one cable with another cable.
So, the before picture has two power bars and at least two appliances plugged in. The after picture still has the two power bars (you can see the chords running to the wall) and only one other cable coming. So, the really key to chord management is to only plug in one item at a time.
Some one give me 30 bucks please. NOW!
Maybe if it had a surge protected power strip built in, then it might be worth something.
This is similar to the solution we use for usb cable mgmt. I think ours is a bit more artistic... http://im1.shutterfly.com/procgtaserv/47a0d929b3127cce98548b946ece00000045108AYtm7do3Zsy
One usb cable goes in. USB hub on the inside. Ceramic vase with a hole cut out in the bottom using a ceramic drill bit :)
been doing that with cardboard boxed forever...
lately ive changed to using old wooden wine boxes, they're large and look good.