I’m not usually the type to endorse random products, but I’m pretty impressed with this one. Not only does it sound and look pretty cool, it’s surprisingly functional. I described it to a friend at work and he said something like “that’s probably the coolest thing that was needed years ago.” He said it much more elegantly than that, but I forgot.
So what is it? It’s a Power Squid. Here’s a picture:

It’s basically the same as any other power strip, but they’ve solved the annoying transformer problem in a truly exceptional way. And of course it sort of looks like a squid, for which it is named. We bought a 6 tentacled version. It rocks.