Ram-hae Keum and Jung-Jin So designed a rubbery desk grommet bristling with cord-trapping nodules: an obvious idea, perfectly implemented. Why can these not not already be bought? I'd buy a box of ten ...

This grommet is just a design, but we wonder why it took someone this long to come up with such a genius (and obvious) idea. Like a regular desk grommet, it’s a big hole that lets cables through.

Belkin has finally made those lame grommet holes in our desks useful with a trio of In-Desk products. Two are USB 2.0 hubs with 4 ports that are either angled or flush depending on your preference.

Every now and then you come across something so obvious that you know you should have thought of it first. That's the way I felt when I first saw the new desk grommets that are being made by Belkin. I ...