New 'Techno-Sport' hits the US.....

Werebo

OK, it's in Los Angeles, but this looks like it could be fun.....

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A new "sport" based around unravelling the mass of wires that can typically be found beneath computer desks the world over is taking off in the western US.

The first "speedcabling" competition took place in an art gallery in Los Angeles and was won by LA-based web developer Matthew Howell.

The challenge was devised by IT professional Steven Schkolne. Contestants are faced with a tangled mass of six ethernet cables of various lengths. Their task is simply to separate them in the fastest time.

To get them to replicate the conditions of the wires found snaking and choking their way around hard drive units, monitors and printers in offices worldwide, Schkolne first started by tangling them in a figure eight. Then he threw the bundles in a clothes dryer - no longer attached to any computer unit, naturally.

"I did a bunch of experiments and found that putting them in a dryer for three minutes works pretty well, it allows them to tangle naturally," he told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme.

"After that, they're pretty much how they appear in nature."

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Night · Joined: Dec 05, 2002 Posts: 22

This could be good, in say, an all geek bar... it could be the next drinking game... Smile

except, instead of cat cable, it might be usb cables or separating cross over cables from straight-through cables... but, i see this going away shortly... it's fine for inner-office antics, but real world, i just don't see it...