You don’t want to get up and walk to your HTPC everytime the iPod needs syncing, right? A convenient USB hub located near your favorite seat is an elegant solution to the USB port problem.
All you need is a hub, a long USB cable, and a way to hide the unsightly wires to keep the wife happy.
Now, USB cables are limited to 5m in length. If you need to go longer, snap up an active cable on eBay.
As for hubs, they can go in drawers, velcro under tables, or (if you’re brave - and the wife doesn’t mind) this beauty might be the most elegant solution there is: a hub designed to drop into your computer desk’s cable holes.
Of course, your coffee table doesn’t have these holes, but that’s what a drill and 3″ hole saw are for! Now you have a beautiful USB hub, flush with your table.
Finally, this usb hub from Lacie might even convince you to make your hub a centerpiece - as Veerle did!
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