Signature Mini USB 2.0 Hard Drive
External drives are practically fashion accessories these days, offering enclosures that compliment not only the computers they're hooked up to, but also the accessories they're sharing desk space wit...
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Good Questions: A Compact Camera With Great Image Stabilization
Lauren asks: I am looking for a great compact digital camera. I'm overwhelmed with too many choices out there. I don't need too many bells and whistles, but I'd like the following: At least 5 mega-pix...
Duck Hunt Lamp
This would be the perfect kids room lamp, except for the fact that a kid today will have no idea what this is. You either have to love Duck Hunt or have a great deal of extra time on your hands to put...
Look! Reclaimed Wood Media Center
It's official. We're in love. Please welcome our soul mate, the Fractured Fairy Tale. Made by designer Thomas Wold, the piece is a wall unit made for his client in order to house their A/V equipment...
Watch the Wii Fit Work
The picture above is the result of regular Wii Sports action, but opinion still seems to be split on whether the Wii Fit could be a viable replacement for going to the gym. ...
Weekly Reminder: Clear Off That Desk
As many of you may or may not know, May is our official "Spring Cleaning/Organizing" month, and this definitely applies to our desks filled with Post-its attached to our monitors, old mail, and endles...
How To: Clean your Keyboard
Warning: Stop reading if you're eating breakfast. A new study has found that your keyboard may be five times as filthy as a toilet seat. Yes, you could be typing away on the equivalent of butt germs! ...
Marcel Breuer Writing Desk: Small and Simple
Small desks are great when you're trying to milk that square footage to the last inch, and the Marcel Breuer has just enough to keep it light, yet still functional. The tiny desk comes complete with l...
Hot or Not? Cord Cozy
This cord cozy reminds us of this week's earlier post on tangled electric wire lamps. Now if this cozy was made by the graffiti knitting gang, Knitta Please, you could consider it a work for art. But ...
Look! Best Tech in Small Cool 2008
If you haven't checked out the pads in Apartment Therapy's Small Cool 2008 contest we strongly urge you to. Hot damn there are some good ideas and some are on the tech front. We'll be posting some of ...
Council Design: System 24 Modular Storage
With Lego-like properties, this modular storage system can be configured into numerous combinations - you can turn it into a TV stand, a shelf for your home theatre PC, or make it into a media storage...
Green Sleep: Eco-Friendly Mattresses
Did you know that your current mattress may have polyurethane and formaldehyde in it. Not only are those harmful materials for the environment, they aren't the best chemicals to be sleeping on. Unless...
Atmostheory Command Posters
Who knew that keyboard shortcuts could be cool and funny. The perfect office, cube, workspace decor. ...
Hitachi: 1.5 Inches of UltraThin LCD Goodness
It's mind boggling how thin televisions have become over the span of just a few years. Just when we thought television sets couldn't possibly get much thinner, Hitachi goes out and proves us wrong. I'...
Review: Eos 100T1RB Wireless Audio System
When we first came across the Wireless Eos 100T1RB system we were not really expecting much because they are... wireless. Oh oh oh, how a little hands on can change perspectives. ...
Best Solar Powered Emergency Gadgets
We hope you're prepared with an emergency kit or two around the house. Better safe than sorry (and living in California, you'd be foolish not to be prepared for earthquakes). But while we've got our e...
Good Questions: Entertainment Center Alternatives?
I need A.T. help! I was shopping at Walmart the other day (yes, gasp horrors), and finally found the entertainment center I've been looking for. Not too big, lots of storage, doesn't look like a b...
Purchase New Movies on iTunes Same Day as DVD Release
Do movie studios finally get it? 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entert...
Remote Control R2D2 Movie Projector
Sure, this is pretty geeky, and normally we're not one to want our home electronics to look like a "toy". But perhaps it's the 7-year old Jedi-loving kid still within when we say this R2D2 remote proj...
Incipio Technologies thinCRADLE for iPhone
Recently we showed you a beeyootiful wooden iphone/ipod holder and now prepare yourselves to be wowed again. Incipio Technologies has created the thinCRADLE for the iPhone. It's a standard dock as f...
Sharp X-Series and Amimon: Wireless HDTV
"Wireless whole-home HD connectivity with quality equivalent to that achieved with HDMI" is what the press release says. By pairing a wireless transmitter with a receiver that comes built in to the X...
Easy Snap-On Chrome Mod for Playstation 3
Tired of black gloss or just want to keep the dust bunnies from returning so quickly after your last dust-off? XCM’s Smart Face Plate has you covered - simply remove a few screws, slide off your old...
Tangled Electric Wire Lamps
While we have seen lighting that stripped the fixture down to just the wire and bulb before, these tangled wire lamps from designer Kwangho Lee bring that idea to an entirely different level....
Maytag Osiris Drying Cabinet
Personally we believe in a very low tech and environmentally friendly solution for drip drying clothing: the clothesline. But Maytag recognizes some folks might find the tried and true drip drying met...
LAX Series Entertainment Shelf
We've seen the LAX storage solution before when we featured remote control storage, but did we mention they also have TV stands? Or well.. "entertainment shelves" are what the LAX folk call them. Well...
Fixya.com: Help Yourself to Some Tech Support
The fact that a site like this exists shows that either there are a lot people out there that can't handle new technology or product manufacturers care more about getting their products out the door t...
Samsung HT-X810 Bar System: Taking It Up Another Notch
Taking advantage of all the latest advancements in technologies, the HT-X810 incorporates 5.8Ghz radio technology to allow the speaker bar and subwoofer to communicate wirelessly. That means no more e...
Wind Chime Alarm Clock
Say "no more" to buzzers, loud radio, and laser projection alarm clocks! Instead, imagine a slight breeze hitting wind chimes on your doorstep every morning. It features ten different tones, an LCD di...
SMAQ Cozy Chair: Part Lounge Chair, Part Radiator
I prefer a little bit of cushioning for extended lounging sessions, so I question the comfort of the SMAQ chair. But comfort isn't really what this is all about....
DIY Project: Options for Eye Catching Monitor Stands
As I continue planning my move from vertical to horizontal workspace I've been trying to figure out how I want to raise my computer monitor. This image from Monica, one of AT:SF's Small Cool 2008 entr...
Look: Chocolate Bar Keyboard
Someone needs to take Michael Sholk's sweet design and make it real. But please, make it the full size 104-keyboard, not a mini version...we feel like we're getting short-ended without the numeric key...
Grass-On Green Lamp by ITlab; It's. Green.
The Grass-On lamp is made entirely of recycled materials (not plants... ) so it's not just about the color, people. It can be hung, placed on a floor or table and it also lights up. ITlab is an Ital...
Lenovo Thinkpad X300: It Fits in a Manila Envelope Too
Funny and true. While the MacBook air can fit in a Manila envelope, when you add the optical drive, and USB hub the game changes just a little bit. ...
Axelsson Dragon Speakers; Music With Fire
Unfortunately, they dont actually breathe fire but perhaps we will cover how to do that in a future DIY... if we get enough polite requests. They do, however, breathe beautiful music thanks to their ...
Brastilo Designs: Home Tech Furniture By Pieter Maes
If you haven't seen the fresh new work coming from design company Brastilo, we believe they are worth a second look. Their pieces have a sleek post-modern feel with clean lines and warm tones. Be sure...
Where to Dump your E-waste this Spring
We have a love/hate relationship with Spring cleaning. It's definitely nice to purge your home of unnecessary clutter (trust us, you're never going to use that CRT monitor again). But the drawback of ...
Humanscale Daybed Concept
A lounge chair, ottoman and home office in one. Coming from Humanscale, it would be safe to assume that this is as functional as it is pretty. Built in speakers and an integrated power strip make this...
Look! Hi-Tech Foosball Table
Paired with a bunch of large speakers and painted an array of soccer-friendly colors, designer Chelpa Ferro's "Toto Treme Terra" is a foosball table unlike any other we've ever seen. From what we can ...
Future Home Technology From Sony Concept
Sony Design "Master Craft Lombardia" ExpoSony has been busy concepting new designs for possible future consumer products, including lamps, speaker systems, movie projectors and flexible screen, all wi...
Folderix USB Flash Drive
"Oh, I've got the files right here in a folder," busting out Folderix USB Flash Drive [laughing ensues]. ...
Space Invaders Cutting Board Lets You Chop Intergalactically
Struggling to keep your chopping in order? Perhaps this custom Space Invaders cutting board will empower your knife to work harder, stronger, and faster - though we don't suggest getting too into it. ...
Turning the Mac mini into a Windows Vista Media Center system
Hats off to Krunker for this encyclopedic post about how to convert a Mac mini into a Windows Vista operated media center, combining the options of a Windows based machine with the form factor of an A...
The Offices of Gawker and Google Zurich
We were fairly impressed with the tasteful, if not a little sedate, new digs of the Gawker team shown above. All that leather and metal says "we're serious, seriously!" But to be honest, I'd much rath...
Control Games With Your Brain... Future = OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator
Oh boy! The OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator is available now for $200 and promises to be a revolution in gaming. Consider it the next Wii type controller (... just imagining a room full of people playin...
Good Questions; What Screen Size Should I Get???
Reader Lourdes asks: "I've chosen a flat screen TV for my 13 x 20 livingroom, but I'm not sure what screen size to get. What do you think would look best with my 77" media cabinet...? 37", 40", 42"?"...
Survey: Could Wii Fit Replace Going to the Gym?
It appears that Wii Fit is selling like hotcakes in Europe, selling out in 24 hours on Amazon.co.uk. With gaming consoles and the Wii in particular making its way into more and more living rooms cou...
Apple iMacs Get A Small Boost In Speed
Announced yesterday afternoon, the Apple iMac line will get an upgrade to the new Core 2 Duo Penryn processors and a nice kick in speed to 2.4GHz for the 20" base model and 3.06GHz for the 24" top-dog...
Jabra Dog Tag Bluetooth Headset
I was just having a conversation on this very topic with a friend of mine the other day. Not military dog tags, but about people who always wear bluetooth headsets, whether or not they are on a call. ...
Flickr Finds: Justyn's Vertical Art Center
Speaking of going vertical, we're pleased to see even artists with limited desk space have found going up to be a good way to work. It also provides a nice isolated area for them focus and perpetuate...
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