Need help purchasing cables

[triwheeler]

I'm very new to doing anything with electronics so forgive the lack of nomenclature.  I have a circuit bending project and I want to draw out all the connections that I've soldered to one device and bring them into a separate project box. Its all low current signal stuff.

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to do this?  There will probably be 20-30 different wires.  I was thinking about heat shrinking a bunch of wires together but I'm worried it wouldn't be so durable.. afraid if the cable was tugged too hard one of the individual connections inside the device I'm modifying would come lose.

Is there some kind of multi-cable with a header or something that i can set into both the original device and the project box to plug a cable into?

Does this make any sense?

[katzohki]

Ribbon cable is great for this kind of stuff. You can get the rainbow kind for color coding as well. It's always handy to have some around, just pull off any extra conductors you don't need. And yes, there are connectors specifically for these.

Some with connectors:
http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en/cable-assemblies/d-sub-cables/1573638?k=ribbon%20cable

Lots more:
http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?pv321=116&FV=fff40018%2Cfff8020f&k=ribbon+cable&mnonly=0&newproducts=0&ColumnSort=0&page=1&quantity=0&ptm=0&fid=0&pageSize=25