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Final Frame: A Cooking and Cutting Tablet

The myBrett beech wood, laser engraved cutting board, complete with cooking/food related icons.

Make Your Own Snail Mail Google Earth Envelopes

Throughout our day there's text messages flying, emails piling up and sometimes all you want is to take a step back from it all. Enter, snail mail. You remember it right? The whole letter and an envelope thing, it's so 1992 it's ridiculous, but you can make it a little bit cooler with the help of Map Envelope.

Using Social Networking to Recycle, Sell, & Donate Tech

Love it or leave it, social networking is here to stay. No matter how much you might love it or dislike it, it's very useful when you have to connect with people you know. When you are trying to get rid or sell some old tech, one of the best ways is to leverage you social networking contacts.

Halley LED Lamp by Vibia Design

Europe certainly gets its fair share of cool eco products. The Halley Lamp by Vibia is a simple, easy to assemble, portable and lightweight outdoor lighting system that utilizes LED strips to transform any outdoor space into a well lit entertaining environment.

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A Look at the Future of Screen Technology

It’s often fun to examine the possibilities of a technologically advanced future, 1000 years away. Images of hover crafts, meal pills, and teleporters often come to mind. But what about the near future? What types of technological advances should we expect to see in our lifetime? Obviously, the recent debut of mass produced touch screens and their applications has been a huge hit. Just recently we highlighted the possibilities of turning your tablet into a digital picture frame. But what if these touch screens were even more ubiquitous than they are today? Swedish technology and design firm TAT created an interesting look into what could very well be our near future. But should it be?

The Garage Home Office of Bon Appétit's Heather John
Lifework

Get ready: this new mix from Bon Appétit contributing editor (and Lifework writer and creator of The Foodinista blog) Heather John is so funky-fun, it may inspire you to start dancing at your desk (and perhaps even inspire you to grab a nice glass of vino or two—after hours, of course).

Get Creative: Repurpose Your Old Tech

If your electronics have seen better days, but you're not quite ready to part with them — repurposing them is a great option to explore. You'd really be surprised at just how many things our old tech can be used for in modern times.

The Dust Mite Decimator: Oreck Halo Flash
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Product: Oreck Halo Flash Vac
Price: $399.95
Rating: Recommend*

Allergies are no fun. With dust mites being the leading cause of indoor allergies, solutions that get rid of dust mites are always high on our list. We know that vacuuming cuts down on dust, but our allergies are often so much worse during the cleaning process that it just makes it not worth it. When we spotted this vacuum created specifically to kill germs and eradicate dust mites, we knew we had to review it.

Clean Sweep: Eschewing Your Old Tech

One of the things that you quickly learn when you live abroad for a while is how to eschew some of you tech and belongings to keep a clean lifestyle. It's not always easy, but it stops you from buying larger items that you can't bring home when you move back. Here are some tips how you can eschew some of your old tech.

@Rest for the iPad by Heckler Design
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Name: @Rest iPad Stand by Heckler Design 
Price: $59 with free shipping 
Rating: Strong Recommend*

As soon as we spotted the @Rest iPad Stand from Heckler Design we knew there was something different about this iPad stand. Dean Heckler from Heckler Design was not only kind enough to send us one unit for test and evaluation, but he accommodated for a customized color request to match our passion for speed yellow...Porsche speed yellow.

My Tech Top 10 Curated by Bobby Solomon of Kitsune Noir

We've been long time fans of Kitsune Noir, a depository of visual and musical inspirations, fashion, art & design and products handpicked by one Mr. Bobby Solomon. It's the first place we go hunting for new desktop wallpapers and the destination for his sonic-satisfying musical mixcasts. Bobby has been keen enough to share his Tech Top 10 below, revealing an affinity for Cupertino's creations, a preference for the colour white, and an admirable love of living without the automobile in car-centric Los Angeles.

Responsible Ways To Recycle Your Old Tech

Recycling is such an important part of life, we all need to do our part to make this world of ours a better one. Typically we save recycling for diet pepsi bottles and stinky kitten food cans — but we need to broaden our horizons and look at less disposable items.. like, electronics.

Matt's Nintendo Entertainment Coffee Table

Unplggd reader Aline sent us this video of her friend Matt's supersized fully functional, wired remote NES coffee table. Seems like a perfect match to accompany the NES controller table alongside the NES home theater PC, all the while wearing your NES dress, doesn't it?

5 Ways to Stylishly Baby-Proof Your Appliances

There's a commonly held convention that perfectly stylish parents are apt to jump the shark when they decide to start a family. We choose to blame that on hideous kid-proof products. Let's face it: After you start plastering your home with bulky white plastic cabinet latches, it's tough to go back to your sleek modern ways. But there's no reason baby-proofing your prized tech has to be so... ugly. Here's 6 cool options for protecting everything from outlets to oven doors.

What's Next? The Upcoming Digital Paradigm

Physical media is dead. It's wasteful, impractical, and losing traction day by day. So why do people continue to hold onto their vinyl collections? Is it a generation thing? Or is there something about digital media that simply doesn't "feel the same"? Our thoughts on digital media's future, after the jump.