Nifty Zipper Tubes That’ll Cure Your Cable Clutter


It takes a special kind of design savvy to make a mundane thing like a cable-management system desirable, but Bluelounge has cracked the code. The company’s $25 Soba system is drool-worthy, and not just because it’s named after a bowl of wide-gauge noodles.


Soba wraps that foot-hugging rat’s nest of wires under your desk in ten feet of clean and versatile “Vortex” tube. Included in the Soba kit are clip-on routing guides and a Y-junction for splitting one run of cable into two. The neatest part of the system is its little zipper collar, which slides onto the ends of the sleeve, opens up a little gap for you to add more cables, then zips the tube closed behind. This lets you add more devices to your neatly stowed cable system without requiring you to thread a wire through that long piece of ziti lunghi. According to Bluelounge, the tube has room for three wider-gauge cables or a few more thinner-gauge wires (phone chargers, RCA cables) inside of it. It’s part Erector Set, part sandworm.


The little clip-on routing guides caps have adhesive backing, so you can stick them onto the back of your desk or run them along the wall. In addition to the Y-splitter for routing different cables to different destinations, there’s also an end cap and some rubber bands if you need them.


That’s a great start for keeping your wires from tripping you up. The separately sold CableBox ($30) can also help curb cable clutter. It’s essentially a bread box that hides your power strip, giving you an under-desk ottoman in the process.



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