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Two New Ipod Docks: From Vacuum Tubes to WiFi
iPod docks are a dime a dozen, but it's needless to say that we all need one, when we want to share our music with friends or take a break from the headphones. A good dock replaces a boombox and is pe...
Good Questions: A Good Camera Wall Display?
Looks like we're not the only ones that love old school cameras around here...
Hi Unplggd!
I stumbled upon your wonderful post about 35mm cameras yesterday and to be honest, you timing couldn't have...
Compass 35 The Ultimate Tool: The iPhone of Multitools
We all know that the iPhone is ubiquitous of our modern times. You can't walk a few paces before you see one. Everyone has one or wants one. This makes you wonder. What was the iPhone of the past? Wha...
Mini Roundup of Home Tech from Apartment Therapy House Tours
We hope you're already an Apartment Therapy reader across all of our sites, because even though the focus over there veers away from home technology, you're bound to see many great ideas of integratin...
Vase Router Does More for Shelves than Sit Behind DVDs
Sitting in front of us on our Ikea Expedit bookcase right behind our collection of DVDs (the blue ones, arranged by color as per an AT suggestion), is our standard antenna-adorned black box of a wirel...
"KAZE TO DESKTOP" Will Blow You Away
On a scale of 1 to 10, we're gonna say the "KAZE TO DESKTOP" is a 9.875, and will certainly be added to any future cool screen saver roundup (free to try, $8 to buy). Words don't do it justice...the s...
Re(al)view: iZap Toothbrush, Clean UV Revolution
Most sheeple don't realize that their toothbrushes are not immune to germs and filth. They wax on to waiters and waitresses about the little spots on their flatware and never think twice about sticki...
Good Idea: Medicine Chest as CD Storage
Now we know owning CDs is a bit retro these days, but hey, some of us don't trust the lasting effect of digital audio formats. For those albums you just can't live without, it's a good idea to own a ...
Boombench by NL Architects: Ghetto Blaster Meets Seating
What you're looking at is a bench that can play music transmitted via Bluetooth from your cell phone, a conceptual exploration of seating and interactivity that was displayed at Urban Play 2, an event...
Can You Guess This Computer Mouse's Secret?
Multi-tasking with tech is always a good thing in our book. (We mean like having gadgets that do two or more things at once, like this 3-in-1 USB flash drive laser pen, not like using your laptop on t...
Roundup: Our Picks for Best High Definition Projectors of 2008
Projectors have always been right there in the middle between value and practicality. For one, it allows easy movie watching for crowds larger than 4-5. Toss up a screen and you're immediately set to ...
In Case You Missed It: What's In This Closet?
At first, we thought that this might be another example of a shower hidden in the closet. Well it's not, because a shower in a closet would be a bit weird on unplggd. Instead, Lise from AT SF shows us...
Tech Tour: Danish Modern Beach House in Santa Cruz
Name: Sophia Brueckner & Rich Cannings
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Years Lived In: only 5 months!
Size: The entire house is 1858 sq. ft. This includes the 1 bedroom apartment we rent out in the back. We...
Spongebob's Eyeballs Make a Great Gift for iPod-Toting Kid
I am about to provide you the service of being your holiday personal shopper. Buy your mom a beautiful flower arrangement. Buy your girlfriend diamonds. Buy the kid in your life (son? niece? neighbor?...
The Glass iPhone: The iPhone That We All Want
What would the iPhone of the future look like? We don't know, but designer Mac Funamizu has come up with a few interesting designs, that look like they came out of the future. It's made mostly out of ...
Re(al)view: Lomography Diana+ Camera
Artistic Photography on the Cheap
We received an impressive array of equipment from the folks at Lomographic Society to test and review...almost too much, with The Diana F+ Camera accompanied with additional lens packs and a 35mm film...
Look! A Cassette Tape, Tape Dispenser
It's official, tapes are back! I recall unraveling these things all over the house as a kid, hoping to someday find the secret behind how it all worked. Now everything's digital and my kids will never...
DIY The Better Looking Cardboard Laptop Stand
We recently showed you how to make your own laptop cooler using only cardboard and a salvaged fan from an old PC. The only trouble is that it looked kind of bad and was a fire hazard if you'd use anyt...
R.I.P. PC Magazine
Magazine Will Be Online Only
Sign of the times, the 27 year old mainstay of personal computing news (we remember purchasing issues when we were working/playing on a Compaq 386DX/33) is shutting up shop from the print edition end ...
GenevaSound Home Theater Available
Look familiar? Just right after we pouted about waiting for the grand daddy of home theater console pieces in a previous post about the GenevaSound that we first saw at ICFF earlier this year, George ...
Take Your Own Focal-Point Worthy Photos with Flipbac
It's really easy to take bad pictures. Having taken a few photography classes in school and learning rules about perspective and composition, we'd like to think that we make less mistakes than most am...
Juice Up Your Gadgets While Burning Calories
The other day we were ranting and raving about the wasted energy opportunity gyms have. All those people working away on treadmills, stationary bikes, and elliptical machines could be generating powe...
Broken Gadget? No Warranty? Take it Apart!
Stuff breaks. For no reason sometimes. We broke the little USB hub for our Rock Band controllers last night, and we have no clue how we did it. Assuming that those little gizmos aren't too expensive t...
Lookout! Gmail Themes Are Coming Your Way
In addition to our relentless browsing stemming from our terrible internet addiction, we're admittedly Gmail-holics. And big ones too. Personally, I use Thunderbird and Gmail's IMAP service to keep al...
Hulger's High Design Light Bulbs Coming Soon
Word on the street is that Hulger, the company that brought you retro-tastic handsets for your mobile and Skype, are in the final stages of lightbulb development. Their Plumen light bulb design, firs...
How to Create Secure and Memorable Network Passwords
We were at a friends house last night for a little bit of mid-week relaxation (read: drinking a Margarita) last night, but we brought along our laptop because we also had a little off-topic research t...
The DIY Cardboard Cooler: Keeping Your Laptop Cool Cheaply
As laptops get more and more powerful, it's easy to notice that they have started to produce a lot more excess heat. It's a known fact that a laptop running at full power will really start to heat qui...
FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drive Offers Tech Color Therapy
The folks at Seagate just dropped us a line about their FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drive. They're now offering 10 different colourways of their portable drive, which comes in 250-500GB storage sizes, ...
Xbox 360 Gets Brand New Interface, Netflix HD Streaming
It looks like New Xbox Experience is going live today and man, are we stoked. Expect a brand new user-interface with new channels, avatars, and *cue drumroll* Netflix streaming! That's right, you'll e...
Gifts for the Non-Mac Fans: Four New Must Haves for the Holidays
New gadgets come out every day, but it's not that often that you come upon gadgets that are really must-haves. Without a doubt, MacBooks and iPhone rule, but there are a lot of PC users out there and ...
Do You Leave Your Gaming Console On All the Time?
We'd like to think that most of the readers of the Apartment Therapy family of sites (That's all those links resting at the very top of this page) are in favor of making green choices in their life. S...
How To: Remove CD Wrappers and Stickers
Steven Leckart of Cool Tools posted this helpful video clip of a problem we both imagine should become less of an issue as the format disappears from the popular landscape. But still, the advice is a...
iPod CupSpeakers from Dmitry Zagga
Creator Dmitry Zagga calls his own creation an iPod Ghetto Accessory, but we think it's a wonderful example of taking a mundane and common household object and using it entirely for something differen...
Secure Lego Safe: Harder to Break Into Than You'd Think
When you think about where you're going to place your valuable and secure documents, it's pretty much expected that you'll buy a safe and put it up on a shelf in your closet somewhere. We've watched T...
Danish Design Company Rethinks the Speaker
Made by Makers, a Danish design agency, teams up with companies like Bang and Olufsen and Levis to create both real and concept products. The company recently held a three day internal workshop look...
Unplggd's Sales Calendar: Black Friday Edition, Part 2
While we're still kickin' back, waiting for those Amazon, server crashing deals, it's still possible some people may still enjoy the old fashioned "wait in blistering cold for 4 hours" method of getti...
Look! Tulip-esque Mini Speakers
There is a reason that the Tulip base is an icon. It looks good on so many things. Dining tables, coffee tables, chairs, even turntables and home stereo systems. Now here is another example, but on a...
The Most Important Part of Any Party, Big or Small
As Apartment Therapy gets into gear for dining and entertaining month, we here at Unplggd want to join in on the fun. Whether you're having a friend or two over for beer and pizza or entertaining a fo...
Final Frame: Bacon iPhone Case
As bona fide bacon lovers, we know this is oh-so-wrong, but yet it feels oh-so-right. Bacon lovers rejoice...you now can protect your iPhone in the most holy of foods. Behold, the Bacon Case!...
Turn You Calculator into a Game Boy
We've all done it. Wasted time on a calculator when we should be studying. I remember whole classes spent on the little minesweeper game I had on my HP 48. We guess that Mark spent part of his time in...
Inspiration: Take Out That Vintage Camera For Decoration
If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's the fact that vintage cameras definitely have a charming aesthetic about them that's still significant today, even by our modern industrial design standa...
Look! Turn Your iPhone into a Numeric Keypad
One of the annoying things of having a modern laptop is that you're stuck without a numeric keypad. Some power users used to purchase the giant 17" notebooks just to get the numeric keypad. There are ...
Plushdepartment PC and Amp Ceramic Cases
Personally, this is exactly where we hope PC case design is heading. Away from cheap plasticky finishes with garish lights and doo-dads shaped like bad rendition of Transformers toys and into the real...
Jesse Regolo Collection Keeps a Low Profile in Home Theater Storage
One of the tricks of taking away the obvious dominating presence of a large display in a room is placing it in a low position. By positioning a display at around knee to waist height, when seated the ...
X-Biking: Like Wii Fit, But Xtreme
Having the willpower to exercise is not always easy, otherwise everybody would be perfectly toned and tight and Krispy Kreme doughnuts would sell through the roof. But playing video games? Well any ha...
Choosing Greener Tech: Energy Efficiency in Home Technology
Did you know the average American spends about $100 per month on our electric bills, with a good portion of that amount going to power the myriad of electronics and gadgets that we've incorporated int...
Look! Giant Gundam Robot Made of Electronics Styrofoam
We've posted about reusing electronics packaging for art projects in the past. There was the wall of Apple styrofoam corners at the Teamscreen print shop and Phillip Maisel's electronics packaging co...
Who Can Get Their Digital Past off the Internet?
ComputerWorld recently did a piece about erasing your digital past and how difficult it can be to remove embarrassing and damaging search results from sites like Google. They gave themselves a week t...
Go Green! Turn Floppies Into Pen Holders
Oh the floppy disk, how we miss your fun, vibrant colors. Don't tell me you've forgotten about them? Of course, not. Oregon Trail was played on some of these suckers. Despite being considered quite da...
An Update on an Already Cord Controlled Desk
Back in February we took a look at Flickr user Blupic's hidden wire desk. He's since updated his table, after moving into a larger apartment this Spring. He bumped up table size from a 60x38 Andover ...
A Simple Bookmark Javascript to Get You Back to Work
If you're having people over for the holidays (or even if you aren't), you might be deep into clearing up and cleaning out your space. And as if making your space look like it's ready for the pages of...
Mac Pro Ultra Mini: Making That Itty Bitty Computer A Reality
What happens when you update your laptop to the latest Apple MacBook on the market? You're stuck with an old computer that you probably won't get a lot of money for. Most of us are stuck with them and...
Setting Up a 5.1 vs. 7.1 Surround Sound System
Us old timers remember back in the day when 5.1 formats like Dolby Digital and DTS were the bee's knees when it came to the home theater experience. But now with 7.1 HD audio encoded into Blu-ray disc...
Roundup: Tube Stereos, Radios, and HiFi For Your iPod
There's something about tube amps that just make them all the more cooler than your run-the-mill digital receiver. Perhaps it has something to do with how unbelievably steampunk they look, or maybe so...
The Escape Clock: When The Snooze Button Isn't Big Enough
A lot of us have problems getting up in the morning. A lot of us also use the snooze button, even though that it's not that good. Additional sleep that comes thanks to the snooze button is fitful at b...
The Ettiquette of Instant Messaging at Work
A good friend of ours works in a laid back design office where the communication medium of choice between those in the office is AOL Instant Messenger. It's a great way to exchange information in real...
You Can Work It Out
Charge Up Your Muscles and Gadget
You know you need the exercise anyhow, so why not just combine your gadget power needs with an easily transportable charging accessory which also provides you with the grip-enhancing workouts? Mac Fun...
Survey: Is There a Right Way to Organize your Desk?
We're always struggling with keeping the amount of stuff on our desk to a bare minimum, but it's guaranteed that only a few hours after clearing space it's filled again by something. We're not necess...
Mathmos AirSwitch Lamp: The Anti-Clapper
Remember The Clapper? As kids, we thought that turning on lights with just a clap of the hands was just about the closest thing to being super-human. As an adult, now we realize if you're not geriatri...
Incase 3G iPhone Power Slider Protects and Powers
We think we have a winner for best iPhone case with the Incase Power Slider, which not only protects your mobile handheld computer/phone like any other case, BUT also throws in the whiz-bang-wow facto...
BeoSound 5 from Bang & Olufsen
Ever wanted the holy grail of audio equipment? Look no further than your Bang & Olufsen store; they're pulling a Steve Jobs and churning out high end audio equipment we immediately fall in love with, ...
Parrot Specchio: A Digital Photo Frame That Looks Good Without a Picture
Finally. A digital picture frame that we could actually see in our home. For starters, it mimics the mirror integrated TV's and even the Reflect iPod case we have seen before, definitely a good thing...
Take Really Old-School Photos with a DIY Scanner Mod
If our 'How to...' post on a Web site that makes your digital photos look vintage wasn't authentic enough for you, you'll be happy to see this DIY project. A rudimentary pinhole camera-like structure ...
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