fiber optic side glow cables 7 a may run along the length of the communication cable 7 b as shown in fig3 c the fiber optic cables 7 a can either run in a parallel longitudinal direction or may cross over each other in a helical braided fashion to give a particular ornamental illumination each fiber optic cable 7 a can either be illuminated by a common light source such as a single led or by a separate led light for each cable the color of the led light source fiber optic cable and translucent sheath may be altered for various color effects fig5 is a schematic view of a portion of the cable bundle 107 according to another alternate embodiment of the present invention a rope lighting string 107 a runs between the controller and the computer game console along with the communication cable 107 b disposed there within rope lighting strings include an outer light transmitting sheathing with led lights 108 disposed at discrete locations along its length a wire is run along or within the sheathing interconnecting the leds 108 to a power supply or source within the hand held unit 1 conventionally such rope lighting strings incorporate circuitry to covert a standard ac power supply to a low voltage power supply to power the leds 108 however as the rope string will draw low dc voltage directly from gaming console there is no need for alternate circuitry the voltage drop of the leds 108 within the rope string simply needs to be matched to the available voltage.