If you’ve a house like mine, solid ground floors, then, FlatWire looks exactly what I need. From Southwire’s Flatwire website:

FlatWire products are so thin; they are nearly imperceptible by sight or feel when installed properly. The wires range from 4/1000 of an inch to 16/1000 of an inch, or about as thin as a business card. Once attached to the wall, the product is painted or wallpapered to become virtually invisible. Before painting, we recommend that installers use a traditional “blending” compound over the wire to blend it into the wall.

No more extension leads trailing around rooms to the few main sockets we have and the expense of chiselling out channels down the walls from the ceiling to floor is no more. Hold it, hold it, sadly their products are currently only available in the US and their mains cable is only rated to 120 volts, so it looks like I’m going to have to wait, however rumours have it the company is about to expand into Europe and is working on a 240 volt cable – fingers crossed.

Hat Tip: Trusted Reviews.