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)

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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.
Clumpy

Awesome. Just don’t let your insurance company know about it :).
Jeff Soesbe

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
TheGreatNanners

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.