Porcelain Hanging Flashlight Lamps
The faux flashlights are made with porcelain are designed to be arranged either solo or more dramatically in mixed groupings. Plug in an a LED bulb and you'll complete the facade. It's just too bad th...
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New Pogoplug Makes NAS Easy & Looks Great!
The newly revamped Pogoplug looks really amazing, but that's not all it does. It enables you to push some of your data into your own personal cloud computer, thanks to internet connectivity, and strea...
T3's Readers Help Shape the Ultimate Netbook Tablet
Our friends over the pond at tech magazine T3 sent us this heads up about a project they've been working with their readers in the goal of designing the "best cutting edge smartbook/notebook", ...
Enlighten
Unplggd Test Lab
Name: case-mate Enlighten
Price: $79
Rating: Weak Recommend*
My Kindle 2 and I are rather inseparable. A late adopter to the digital book scene, I continue to be surprised at just how much I ...
First Impressions: Netflix Instant Streaming on the PS3
We've been quite pleased since replacing our Apple TV with the slimmed down PS3 console as the heart of our media center, with a transition smoother than expected. The tipping point for the swi...
The Bathroom Scale that Tweets your Weight
If this won't make you stick yo your New Year's Resolution, we don't know what will: The Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale is now designed to Tweet your current weight to the Twitterverse. ...
Music Hall PH25.2 Tube Hybrid Headphone Amplifier
Unplggd Test Lab
Product: Music Hall PH25.2 Tube Hybrid Headphone Amplifier
Price: $400
Rating: Recommend*
After massaging our ears with crisp, clear sound from Music Hall's DAC 25.2 last month, we've been on ...
Win this WiFi Internet Radio from VTech!
Holiday Giveaway 2009
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Name: VTech IS9181 WiFi Internet Radio
Store: VTech Communications
Value: $174.95
Description: The VTech IS9181 Wi-Fi Internet Radio is the complete wireless music hub for the...
Stovetop for the Visually Impaired
A few years ago my grandmother was diagnosed with Macular Degeneration, an eye disease that causes vision loss in the center of the visual field due to a damaged retina. When I visited, my grandmothe...
A Creative Solution to Desks Seen From Below
When organizing your desk to look clean and clutter-free, step one is to hide your cords by tucking them under the desktop where they won't be seen. Well, that's not so easy for our lofted read...
Final Frame: Toki Woki Scroll Clock
The Toki Woki Scroll Clock takes one of the most common GUI elements of OS X (and various other operating systems including Vista and Linux) and converts it into a mesmerizing online time keeper. And ...
The Canal Apartment
Tech Tour
Name: Canal Apartment Paris
Location: Paris, France
Size: 35m²
Here's an example where home tech has been incorporated with traditional decorative elements appropriate for a Parisian destination....
Google Phone Will Let You Fully Use Google Voice
Right now, the iPhone is the cell phone to beat. Apple just made a great product and people have been flocking to it. What could dethrone the iPhone? How about a new Google Phone! TechCrunch reports o...
Skateboarding in the Living Room
Tony Hawk Ride
Over at Apartment Therapy Chicago this morning, Janel writes about the Yves Behar designed Tony Hawk Ride skateboard controller (yes, the same guy who also designed this much more adult oriented toy a...
James Hopkins and His Great Wall of Musical Tech
Sometimes art just happens by mistake. The Selby comes to mind as a great example, with their excellently composed shots of creative folks and their spaces. Then, there are those like James Hopkins, w...
Incase Chargers and Cases Galore
Our friends over at Incase sent us a few product photos of their updated lines of iPhone cases and chargers than can go from the home to the car and back. First are the Chrome Slider Cases avai...
Cover Up Awkward Bathroom Sounds with Your iPhone
Nothing like being on a great date in the middle of great conversation when nature calls and you have to go do your (sometimes noisy) thing. ...
The Transforming Stella Table is for Work or Dining
For small space dweller, there's often a compromise made between choosing where one can work on their laptop or desktop and where they can eat. And even for those with plenty of space, many of ...
The Bed Embedded Clock Lets You Check Time Easily
How many times do you have to get up or glance at a clock while you are in bed? It happens to us quite often, but we simply love this idea of simply putting a clock underneath your bedspread and let y...
The Eastlake Umbrella Patio Heater Warms Up Al Fresco Dining
The skies are clear but the evening weather has dipped down to sweater or coat weather here in Los Angeles, putting a damper on our outdoor entertaining plans. But even renters like ourselves can add ...
naoLoop Loft Keeps Your Tech in Order
Clutterbug technophiles have a new wall mounted option to help keep all their hand sized devices nearby but out of the way when not in use (and anything else you may keep in your pockets, purse or bag...
ScanViewer, a Digital Picture Frame With a Built-in Scanner
We at Unplggd are pretty big fans of digital picture frames. They are a great way to display prints and make nice gifts for loves ones. Some of our loved ones still have many pictures that are ...
Folding Speaker
We're big fans of unique, funny and whimsical designs &mdash especially when they transform an average item into something above average (whether it's aesthetically or technically). We've been know...
Do You Store Your Passwords in Your Home?
Ideally, passwords for online accounts should stay stored in one spot: Your brain. But as the most forgetful among us know (if you could see me, I'm raising my hand), it's hard to keep track of every ...
Go-Mini My Little Steamer by Joy Mangano
If you plan on traveling this Christmas season and plan to wear some fancy pressed clothes, do it wrinkle-free and in style by packing one of these cute little portable steamers by Joy Mangano....
Tabletop Ceramic Heater from The Sharper Image
As temperatures continue to drop, we have noticed a number of cold spots both at home and in the office. These temperature variations are especially noticeable when we're sitting at a computer typi...
Free Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Ready: Will You Download?
Microsoft Office is one of those application suites that's hard to avoid. The ubiquitous nature of Word itself requires anyone who plans to send out a document to another party to download the whole ...
Honor Tim Burton on Your Desk at Home
A career retrospective of Tim Burton's contributions to art and cinema was unveiled Tuesday night at New York's Museum of Modern Art. But if you're nowhere near New York, you can bring a littl...
Final Frame: Square Technology of 1970's Russia
A keen collection of 1970s Russian matchbox labels as posted by Flickr user, wackystuff (who also happens to have an excellent photo set of vintage electronics we highly recommend)....
Hitachi's Redesigned Modern Looking SimpleDrives
Most external hard drives don't really look that great. They're basically enclosures for hard drives and they serve that purpose. There are thousands of different enclosure designs. Hitachi just relea...
Andrew's Office for Two
Close-up
Proving you don't need to spend an extraordinary amount of money nor have a huge space to have a great home office, Andrew of britepilot.com impressed us with his work space for two, furnished ...
Cassette's Not Dead Lamps Recycle Your Music
So here's where your whole back catalog of bad 80's hair metal audio cassettes and mixtapes went! The Cassette's Not Dead Floor Lamp is described as a tribute to the cassette tape, available in...
Polaroid Flower Vase With A Built-In Spotlight
Ah, the iconic shape of vintage Polaroid photo film shows up again in high-design home decor! Take a cue from Apartment Therapy San Francisco and bring some green indoors for the winter with this Pola...
Holiday Online Security Tips from Charles & Hudson
Timothy over at Charles & Hudson was kind enough to send us a heads up about this helpful and relevant holiday online security guide for all of us with an online social life, where announcing our ...
Egg Collective's Stump Light
Ah, Egg Collective's Stump lighting makes us wish we had room for a woodworking shop. It's a creative and nature-themed way to illuminate the room using fallen sycamore stumps, while also provi...
Maisie Maud Broadhead's Cable Art
Here at Unplggd we often extol the virtues of hiding cables and wires. Normally this is the preferred aim in creating a visually satisfying space, one devoid of visible hardware and cable clutt...
And the Rest of Twitter's New Office
Just a moment ago, Taryn reported on her favourite element from the new Twitter Headquarters. We wanted to follow up with rest of their new office (they moved just around the corner from their...
"At" Symbol Marquee Light in the new Twitter Office!
We were loving this light fixture for the geeky-cool way it combines typography, rusted metal, marquee lights and our favorite keyboard symbol. Now we love it even more because we spotted it in...
Unplggd's Sales Calendar
11.18.2009
THIS WEEK:
HOT! Apple iPod Nano 8GB - $110 ($149)
DEAD! KitchenAid Black Professional 600 6Qt Stand Mixer - $291.59 (Was $399)
SUPER HOT! Lowes 26 Cu. ft. Samsung French Door RF26XAERS Refrigerat...
Roundup of Tiny HTPC's
Which would you choose?
Last week's announcement of Dell's Zino HD was exciting, adding another choice to an expanding market of powerful but small computers capable of running full screen HD (in the right configurati...
Samsung Employee Shows Off His Branded Living Room
Gihun Chang works for Samsung in Suwon, Korea so he's got an added advantage of an employee discount and deep knowledge of consumer electronics. It's no surprise then that he built a pretty sweet hom...
Dang! The Wall Art Crashed Again!
What if the art on your walls couldn't load? When asked to contribute a piece of art for his office reception, this hilarious super-geek came up with an automated real-life version of a Mac OSX not wo...
Final Frame: An Idea to Shift+Command+C
Love the contrast of colour and styles in this photo by Tsar Kasim. Orange and white is alright!...
The Teeny Tiny RAID NAS: Perfect to Start Backing Up
If you're like most people, you probably don't do many backups. Sometimes it just seems ludicrous to do so. But since computer hard drives can easily malfunction and burn out, using a NAS HD is probab...
The Spica Speaker Merges Water and Sound
We weren't quite sure what Yuki Yamamoto's Spica speaker was all about when posted over at Moco Loco. But then we saw the video below the jump and it all started to make sense: it's an audio version o...
Space Invaders Bring Intergalactic Warfare to Your Mailbox
Space Invaders seem to have hit us with their intergalactic evil cuteness from all angles; choppin' boards, flexible keyboards, and lovely wall decals. Mailboxes, it seems, doesn't seem to be an excep...
Zendome & Thousands of Books on the iPhone
Unplggd Slinks for 11.17.09
iPod Earphones Pendant by Nathan Thomas: for the special digital music obsessed person in your life, here's a pendant shaped as a perfect replica of iPod earbuds, as reported by our friends over at De...
Philips Wireless HDTV Link Untethers High Def Content
Unplggd Test Lab
Name: Philips Wireless HDTV Link
Price: $799
Rating: Strong Recommend*
We review a fair share of our products here at Unplggd that impress us aplenty from a technical/home electronics perspect...
Disney USB Cables Add Color to Your Workspace
Some desktop cords you just can't hide. When you're charging a cell phone or emptying your digital camera, your cables are on full blast. Why not have a little fun and color-coordinate while yo...
Wind–up Eco Twinkle Light
The Eco Twinkle Light concept designed by Kenan Wang takes the mechanism of the old fashioned classroom pencil sharpener and connects it to a rechargeable battery and LED light to create a portable an...
Pimp Your Seats With Seat Heating
Are you finding your leather seats too cold? Well, look no further, because we've found an idea that's quite interesting. It involves installing some seat heating into your seats to make them wa...
How To: Catalog Books with Your iPhone
Sarah over at Apartment Therapy Chicago gives 6 simple instructions of how to use your iPhone's ability to scan barcodes to organize your library: "We just discovered a way to painlessly make a digita...
Light On! Bike Lights Make Brilliant Use of Pedal Power
Riding your bike is a great way to save on transportation costs and avoid subway congestion. We at Unplggd fully endorse the use of pedal power to get from point A to point B, so when a new pro...
"Tio" Promotes Green Living for Little Ones
The children are our future and if we don't tech them to turn lights off to conserve energy then who will? Well, this colorful kid-friendly ghost guy, Tio, can do it....
Chinon AVi iPod Dock Doubles As Portable DTV
We're not sure whether or not this is supposedly the next generation of boomboxes comin' at us in full Technicolor, but it does seem to make enough evolutionary sense, right? Simply follow the Chinon ...
PowerZoa: Remotely Control Electronic Devices
We've all had those face palm moments of Oh Crap, Did I leave the coffee maker on?! Sometimes it's hard to remember to turn off or unplug every single device we have plugged in. Wouldn't it be nic...
How to Hide Thermostats and Door Buzzers
Now this is brilliant. How many of you are living in rentals where your landlord decided to ruin a perfectly good wall with a thermostat smack dab in the middle of it? Our thermostat and door buzzer,...
Set Your Direct TV DVR With Your iPhone
It's always rough hearing news of brilliant innovations that you personally can't take advantage of (like when a rad new phone is released for a different cell service carrier than the one you're lock...
Final Frame Still Charging
Can relate to this comic from Andy Rementer's hilarious Techno Tuesday series. Highly recommended....
The Philips Robust Small Appliances: Clean & Modern
There's just something about having robust and nicely engineered small appliances. Let's be honest, those are the ones that you tend to use almost every day. Who hasn't had a cheap blender or mi...
Christopher Delorenzo's Cute as Heck Keyboard Sticker Set
Designer Christopher Delorenzo remembers how he once learned the alphabet via image association and applies the same idea to these smile inducing keyboard stickers for children (and their parents, as ...
The NerdCart
Helping Keep Your Tech in Order & Relationship Intact
Jared has a lot of home electronics gear. Enough that it was enough of an issue between him and his wife to do something about it. And from this common dilemma was born The NerdCart, a mobile c...
Bowers & Wilkins MM-1 Computer Speakers
Bowers & Wilkins has announced the upcoming release of computer speakers that should appeal to the discriminating aesthete and audiophile (at least from what we can tell from the specs and ...
Keeping a Chandelier Out of the Way of Projectors
You spend all your time and money pimping out your house with the hottest furnishings and most up-to-date tech you can find and how does Karma repay you? By making sure your expensive living room ligh...
designboom's Endless Rain Record
Who doesn't like falling asleep to the light pitter patter of raindrops? We sure do, but living in Los Angeles, the sound is more rare than one may like compared to other cities. Perhaps that is why w...
The Simplest & Efficient iPhone Stand We've Seen
If you are looking for a simple and efficient way of having your iPhone/iPod stand in front of you without spending any money, look no further, because this hack is just pure genius. ...
Simone Micheli's Shift Chair
Inspired by the number keypad of the common PC keyboard, Simone Micheli's Shift Chair is a supersized rendition furniture rendition made from plywood and solid pine, padded with polyurethane foam and ...
Milky Way Alarm Clock Adds Some Art to Your Nightstand
The smooth and sleek design of the Milky Way by Henrik Amberla allow this device to serve two functions, as an alarm clock and as an art object for your nightstand. With an innovative design an...
LightSleeper Will Put You To Sleep With Light?
We're pretty heavy sleepers and will wake up if there's even a fraction of light in the room; so you have to understand our skepticism of a device that claims to put you to sleep with light. But th...
Filler Item Finder Helps Clinch Free Amazon.com Shipping
As we get deep into holiday shopping, we're reminded that the two most magical words of the season aren't "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Hanukkah"—but "Free Shipping!"...
How To: Load Unsigned Drivers on Windows 7
Okay, so even though we did say how much we loved Windows 7, there are a few outstanding issues that need to be brought to light. One of the biggest culprit of many Windows 7 users' frustrations are t...
9 Things Topping Our Holiday Wish List
We're not really materialistic or all about "the gimmies," but with Thanksgiving and family get togethers right around the corner, relatives are sure to start probing for things that might be m...
Monterey Bay Aquarium's Conservation Restroom
When we were little ones growing up in drought prone California there was a hippy saying when hitting the loo, "If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down." We still adhere to that m...
Keep Organized with "Taking Care of Business" Mousepad
We're living in a world of wireless laser computer mouses and many casual computer users are tossing out their mouse pad in favor of a more streamlined existence. But some others are still stuck using...
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