Gizmodo
The area under our desk is a prime fire zone seeing since the wires and power strips are all tied in the biggest knot this side of Gordium. That's fine hidden under a desk, but awful in the living room or somewhere that actual people can see. Voila, the Black Box Cord organizer from KangaRooM. It's a plastic heat resistant acrylic box with sliding doors and five ventilation strips that goes over your power strip, both neatly arranging your plugs and suspending stuff like AC bricks and small routers so they don't get tangled up.
The Black Box is a bit pricey at $60, so unless you're really anal, it's probably better just to handle your cord situation yourself.
Black Box Cord Organizer [Kangaroom Storage]
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I'd say this is more of a fire hazard in ways. I'd prefer to let the heat the bricks generate dissipate.
^^ yeah what he said.
My first thought: Ventilation
just slap a couple case fans in it for airflow and cut the price by like 40 $ and I'm in. I often huddle in the corner with a fire extinguisher hoping my bundle of cords won't burst into flames.
Or just cut some vents in the stupid thing.
Pfft. fans.
Venting the top and bottom would create enough air flow to cool the bricks
For only $60 + a saturday's work putting vents and fans in a plastic box you too can have something even bigger than a powerstip under your desk with cords coming out of it. WOW sounds like a winner to me. I hope the company is public so I can invest!!
As the ceo of the company (www.kangaroomstorage.com) I appreciate everyone's concern about ventilation. If you note in the photo , the back side has 5 slits for ventilation that run up and down the entire length, plus there 4 large openings 2.5" x2" (that the cords run in and out of)
Additionally, we made the product out of heat resistant acrylic (not cheap injection molded plastic), which adds to the cost. I hope this information is of service to your readers
Sincerely
Jeff Block
ceo
KangaroomStorage
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