Comments on: Bluelounge’s SpaceStation helps with cable clutter

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:17:19 +0000

Not sure if you’ve seen this little gem, but it could go a long way to helping to unclutter your desktop.

http://pleasantnights.com/38/k.....your-keys/

I just found your blog and love it. I’m just about to subscribe.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:09:27 +0000

Andy, that is the theoretical speed of usb. In practice, firewire 400 is significantly faster then usb2.0.

http://www.cwol.com/firewire/firewire-vs-usb.htm

http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvaul.....e_pg3.html

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:36:11 +0000

only 4 usb ports? :[

then again it would be STUPIDLY easy to build something like this buy hand… and put a much bigger port in there…

Thanks for the idea!

By: amber

amber — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:57:57 +0000

it’s pretty, but i could build the same basic thing for way less than $80.
what i really need is a docking station, so i don’t have unplug a million wires to actually use the “portable” option on my laptop

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:33:28 +0000

USB 2.0 is 480mbps. That’s faster than Firewire 400, and faster than most drives are able to read data.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:21:44 +0000

That looks good, but it’s only USB, and not Firewire. Ideally it would include a few Firewire 400 and 800 ports as well—I only use FW external drives since USB is soooo slooowww.

By: Nat

Nat — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:41:00 +0000

I like it even though I could probably figure out a cheaper way to do the same thing. My problem with this device is that so far all my peripherals have had problems when plugged into a USB hub. Alas, I am stuck with leaving the connectors on the desk b/c I have to swap all the time.

By: Rico

Rico — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:57:27 +0000

Seems more like a unitasker wednesday item to me.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:21:07 +0000

I like it. If I had the extra money to throw around, I’d probably go for it.

By: Some Dude

Some Dude — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:05:42 +0000

Agreed.

I know this isn’t nearly as chic as spending 80 bucks on cable management, but my wacom and other cabled peripherals at work are managed by this simple little thing called a rubber band.

By: Raghav

Raghav — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:06:31 +0000

That picture is could be taken as misleading. The laptop is closed in the first picture, so for all we know all the wires could be hidden behind the screen in the second photo. It’s an interesting concept, but I don’t think it’s worth 80 bucks, and it’s a little bulky for what it does. Just my opinion though.