I’m in the middle of doing some major rearranging of my electronic gear in my family room, and a lot of this involves running the electrical cords again so that they make more sense.

The house is 23-years-old, and we are in severe need of more outlets.  We did wire the house pretty heavily, so running power strips isn’t a problem for us, but if you are going to do it in your own home, do check out how heavy your wiring is before you try running too much through any given outlet.

Going with this in mind, there are two things I have been looking for in power strips, and luckily it seems I am now the only one who wants new features.  Most important is surge protection in case of storms, and second is the ability to rearrange the plugs somewhat because of all the various cords I have to deal with.  Nothing is more frustrating that losing an outlet due to the cord in the next plug being too fat.  As luck would have it, there are more coming out that pivot, extend, rotate and more to meet that very demand.

Again, I stress to make sure you aren’t running more juice than your house can safely handle, but if you need, and can, run a power strip, make sure it has a surge protector built in, the moving parts is just a nice bonus.