We love our exquisite gadgets. It’s having them saddled with grotesque cords, crass stands and clunky charging bricks that is upsetting. “A strip was fine when we just had lamps. Now we have all these interestingly shaped plugs,” says Jake Zien, inventor of Quirky. com’s PivotPower. The tech market teems with similarly clever doohickeys for managing the digital world’s unseemly appendages. Or, says Zien, “twisty ties are absolutely an acceptable solution.”

Leaf Exec: The delicate, natural beauty of Korean designer Tsunho Wang’s leafy cable ties ($7 for 12 at Lufdesign.com) transforms even the most offensive wad of wires into a flourishing vine. They can adorn the analog as well; we put one on our scissors.

Hug Shots: These little peel-and-stick guys embrace cords, making them stay in place and feel loved. Unlike the majority of tech stuff (we blame Steve Jobs), CableDrops ($10 for six at Bluelounge.com) come in earth tones as well as the requisite neons.

Go Bloom: Like bridesmaid dresses and subcompact American cars (sneezefordfiestasneeze), USB hubs are almost universally ugly. This one is not ($22 www.fredflare.com).

Long, cool: Apple’s self-wrapping laptop chargers are all smug and compact—until you add the extension cord. The Power Curl ($15 at Quirky.com) neatens it all up nicely.

Big bend: Jointed at each “knuckle,” the flexible PivotPower ($25 at Quirky.com) can accommodate a wide variety of absurdly large power bricks with balletic grace. And it’s pretty.

Flush mount: “Avatar” on a 3.5-inch display is awesome! Kidding. But the iPlunge ($6 at www.perpetualkid.com) could make it tolerable.

Neat(Not Eat): Finally, something for the woefully under-served Italian grandmother market. Nana’s iPod charger makes her molto angry! The Fork and Cream Sauce ($13 at Lufdesign.com) uses her pasta-twirling skills—spin the cord around the tines, then plant in the base.

Wi-fi Lounge:

Give your expensive touch-screen smart-phone this beanbag ($10 at www.thinkgeek.com) to chill in, and maybe it will resent you less for smearing your finger grease all over it day in and day out.

Wrap Star:

Your precious baby will slumber comfortably in the caress of the Driinn ($7 at www.driinn.com), a simple, rubbery affair that looks like an inexplicable kitchen tool when not in use. It’s ideal for a one-gadget household, or to take along when traveling. It may even make it harder to forget your charger.