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With all the glamorous gear associated with home theater (like big plasma TVs), it's hard to get worked up over a plain old power strip. Still, it's better to have one than not. My biggest frustration with typical strips is that they make it hard to plug in all of my gadgets. All it takes is two or three wall warts to render half of the strip useless. Until now, the only solution was to daisy-chain two or three strips together - a real pain. But a deep-sea-inspired product uses a dramatically different configuration to address that annoyance.

The PowerSquid looks just like its name. A white cephalopod with a bunch of gangly tentacles, it really could double as a high-tech toy octopus. Flexity's Calamari ($80, shown here) is the flagship power strip/surge protector in the PowerSquid line. Its six stretchy arms can easily be separated to accommodate any size plug, no matter how bulky or awkward. And two of the plugs feature cool blue-neon illumination to make locating your PowerSquid in dark areas - whether lurking behind a desk or an equipment rack - hassle-free. Buy one of these aquatically themed gadgets and you'll be a member of the SquidSquad, too.

Watch Jamie's report on the Powersquid in S&V TV.

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