Carpet with built-in cable conduit

I love this idea of this Cablet, a carpet designed by Paul Kogelnig with built-in conduit for passing your cables through, keeping them off the floor. I've just set up a new office and I'm not at all happy about the wires crisscrossing the floor around my desk. Link (via Gizmodo)

[#1 posted by Clumpy , December 20, 2007 11:00 PM]

Awesome. Just don't let your insurance company know about it :).

[#2 posted by TheGreatNanners , December 21, 2007 6:17 AM]

These would be great for home use. I'd love to be able to better hide my mess of cables. I think the conduits would be a pain to clean though, just imagine a coffee spill on one.

[#3 posted by The Unusual Suspect , December 21, 2007 1:18 PM]

Years ago, in my apartment-dwelling years, I hit upon the idea of using sheets of sponge underlay (like you'd find under wall-to-wall carpeting) under my area rugs, and cutting channels in them to pass through coax and cat5 cables without creating bulges in the rugs.

When I bought a house, I set about replacing all the baseboards with new ones nailed 3/8" higher up the walls. I run cable in the gaps thus created, and cover them neatly with strips of 1/2" quarter-round moulding.

Bet ya never saw that on Holmes on Homes.

[#4 posted by Jeff Soesbe , December 21, 2007 2:55 PM]

I want to be able to choose the colors of the panels. Then I could get a Mondrian-thing going on, which would be excellent!

- yeff