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Genius Idea of the Week: Lighting Up Dark Closets with Motion Sensor LEDs

God bless the editors of Martha Stewart Living. Over the summer we received Philips SpotOn LED light as a gift. We had no idea what to do with the thing. It sat in a drawer for months until we got th...

Helvetireader Streamlines Google Reader

Google recently updated its RSS reader's look. We don't like it any more than what they had before. There's just too much going on with all the little modular squares within squares. That said, we we...

DIY TV Riser: Use Door Stops to Lift your Boob Tube

We don't know about you, but we've often made sacrifices in our TV viewing because we just had to use a certain vintage credenza to hold our CRT. With our TV just a tad too low, we find ourselves slo...

'Slightly' Sweat-Absorbing Hemp-Wrapped Wii-Mote

Admittedly, we here at Unplggd always go for a clean, sleek form factor. We love the look of a nice aluminum Apple iMac, an elegant Bang & Olufsen television or the white, shiny Nintendo Wii. But if y...

Mod Master High Schooler Makes Lego Playstation

The Lego train is still going strong. Just one click into our Lego archives and you'll find such brilliant ideas as a Lego radiator, glowing block Lego lights and a super secure Lego safe. But we can ...

Millenium Falcon Mac mini Mod

Mac mini owner Derrick wasn't content just having his svelte Apple as a typical media center PC. His Jedi inclinations led him to combine his mini with a $20 Playskool Millennium Falcon toy into the u...

How To: Convert Your iPhone Into a Tiny Laptop

Typing on the iPhone has become easier with practice, but there's still no denying that typing on a tactile keyboard is still superior for speed and assurance. Japanese blog moyashi.air-nifty.com has ...

The Elect-o-meter Keeps Geeky Political Junkies in the Know

Apologies to any and all of you who are overwhelmed and sick of all this elections related news. We'd be the first to admit we're spending almost as much time on political sites and blogs as home and ...

Hot Posts 11.02.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

We hope you all had a horrifying Halloween. We got our better half to dress up as Beavis, while we went as Butt-head. Some people got it, while others thought we were just dressed as the scumbags we ...

New (Free!) iPhone App Lets You Beam Photos and Contacts to Other iUsers

Remember when business types got all excited when they could beam contact information to each other via their phones using infrared. It was the digital version of giving someone your bidness card. So...

Hot Posts 10.25.08 This Week's Top Posts

Oh man. We spent the whole day at Lowe's, then Ikea, then building all the stuff we got at Lowe's and Ikea. Is there anything more fun than bringing back all the stuff you got for your home and setti...

Ikea Hack: Convert Pax Library To HDTV Media Storage

You know the situation. You just bought a new HDTV and you are trying to fit it into your room. It's not always easy and it's challenging, especially when you don't have a lot of space. One thing that...

Roundup: 10 Best How To Projects

This morning the stock market is on the rise, but things could change, as they have been for the past week, by end of day. With wallets pinched shut, we thought we'd roundup our top ten do-it-yoursel...

Hot Posts 10.12.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

When's the market going to rebound? Sheesh! In the meantime, we've got some hot posts that tackle some inexpensive ways to decorate using tech, inspiration from students on limited budgets, DIY solut...

Look! Using Sidetables as Shelves

When Sait Alanyali got tired of his home office, he went to Ikea and grabbed some standard fare, to be used in not so standard ways. His new set-up uses two white Lack side tables as shelves on his l...

Hot Posts 10.07.08:This Week's Hot Posts

What a week. The stocks plunged, the senate and the house couldn't agree on a bailout until Friday, and Biden and Palin went head to head in one of the most watched veep debates in history. Well goll...

DIY Supercomputer Found in Office Lobby

Woah! Guess how many computers are in this one wall-mounted case. Six! Found in the North Carolina office of designer Fredrik Perman, the acrylic case also holds six batteries, upward-blowing LED-lit...

The Nintoaster: 8-bit Pop Carts?

As much as we liked our Wii and Xbox 360 (which we both sold to purchase a new Nikon D90...priorities), there was something missing from the newfangled games that couldn't compare to the halcyon days ...

How To...Build Your Own Solar Panels

When Mike Davis, an astronomer, moved to a remote part of Arizona he realized his astronomical sights were so rad in his new location because he had no light pollution. As a result, he also had no el...

LED Pong Coffee Table

Sparkfun is known for modding retro gadgets with new school tech -- their rotary phone that accepts cell phone SIM cards was just one of those ideas. Now the company has made a coffee table that lets...

Final Frame: Light Bright

Flickr user Steve modded his daughter's stackable Fisher Price toy with $2 LEDs. ...

Custom Made Media Center Inspired by Vintage Postcard

ATLA has a great House Tour of Steve Prestemon's Venice, CA home. Within the 1340 sq/ft house is this custom made media center, inspired by a postcard Steve found at Urban Outfitters......

Hot Posts 09.14.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

Our hearts go out to those affected by hurricane Ike. When will this gusty season end? Ok, Debbie Downer moment over. On a lighter note, we had a great week of posts (both old and new) making the t...

Hot Posts 09.07.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

Well, those of us on the east coast seem to have survived tropical storm Hanna. Now it's on to Ike! Has your name ever been used to name a hurricane/tropical storm? With the storm passed and a beau...

Look! Vanity Turned Computer Workstation

We'll be honest with you, we have no idea where this is from but when we saw it we had to share. What better way to gloat about how many friends you have on Facebook than to look at yourself in the m...