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Cable Goo
Spray out a new cable when you need it | |
Taking a spackle gun, the idea is to put in some sort of conducting goo. When you set up and/or move your computer, stereo, whatever, squirt out a new cable from the device to the wall socket. When you're done with the cable, just wipe it up.
No more mess of cables. Could be extended to ethernet
cables.
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Always looking for licensees. But why cleanup? Just turn it off when you're done. Let the utilities rent your wall real estate. [reensure, Mar 04 2000]
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A multi-wire version that came on a self-adhesive roll like cellophane tape would be neat, too. |
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Just don't let anyone step in it! Probably unsuitable for households with pets or young children, too. |
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Uh, how would you shield this cable? And what if you need more than one conductor? Hmm. Sounds like wireless solutions would be better. |
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Re: multi-wire version. There is such a thing out there already, in the form of flat speaker-wire that can be applied to bare walls and then painted over.. |
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You should be able to do coax, using nested nozzles. The inner one spritzes the center conductor, the middle one the insulator, and the outer one the shield. I seem to remember a gadget that did something like this with Play-Doh. |
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Or you could lay it down in two stages. One stage puts down a thin tube of shielding paste with a hollow center, like
a long piece of macaroni. When the
shielding hardens, you squirt in the conductive goop. You can't just wipe it up when you want to get rid of it, but it won't smear as much either. |
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Would be really hard to squirt 10 feet of goop into a tube with a hand-held widget... |
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This all sounds good and dandy,
but what would be used that can
be goo-like and still conduct
the electricity well enough?
it should all harden of course
in short time.. also, you would
need FOUR layers, because
insulation is needed between
the two conductors. |
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Why add the conductor later? I've seen sugar cookie dough for sale at the grocery store that had a design in the center of the roll. Whatever device makes these cookie dough packages could also make these wires. |
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Ah ha! Mercury suspended in PlayDoh! Would that
conduct? It would certainly be flexible. |
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But still - this all is much less convenient than a
conventional extension cord, not to mention the
heavy-metal poisoning. |
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But not nearly as much fun...Besides, think of all the fun you could have with audiophools who think that cables are directional, by telling them that you can get better sound by making sure you lay the cable down along the local ley lines, and use this 5000$ an ounce conductor goop... |
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looking at the dates its been a while since the last post on here, but i have seen and used cable goo. |
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in my physics lesson last week we used a conductive putty. it looked like a normal length of any type of putty, but it was pitch black...so i'm reckoning its basically putty with masses of carbon in it. you can roll it out and squeeze it into any shape you want and it still conducts...great fun :) |
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Assuming you could get around the massive difficulties with both shielding and insulating these things, what would this conductive material be made of? |
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Also, how reliably could it be "plugged in" to a device? |
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The obvious device to make the coax goo cable is a toothpaste tube. The stripes are on the surface only folks. |
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HEY! Cables are so directional! The guy at the $tereo $tore said so, and advised against using the cheap non-directional cables with better stereo components. |
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He also mentioned the cheaper cables sometimes contain gay electrons, but that's another topic! |
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