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Unplggd's Weekly Hot Posts: 09.20.08
This Week's Top Ten

This week's top posts for Unplggd included entries about top 10 things you can do with your XBox 360, the Kor hydration system, a sneak peek at the future home tech appliances from the Electrolux Desi...

Seagate FreeAgent Desk and FreeAgent Go Giveaway Winners!

Congratulations to our two randomly chosen winners, Doki and Fikiman, you two were chosen randomly from 213 entries for our giveaway. Doki's plans for his new Seagate FreeAgent Go is to use the portab...

Final Frame: Digital Takes Over

Get away from your computer this weekend. Escape!...

ClassiCon: Transformers-Inspired Foldout Secretary Desk

Since McMansions are downsizing as fast as desktop usage, we here at Unplggd are starting to notice how much space our furniture takes up in our homes. Especially the desk, while it used to be "cool" ...

Flickr Finds: Fitting 8 Screens in your Computer Rig

This setup actually made me smile and drool at the same time. It's quite ingenious and fits a whole lot of screen real estate, which is a must if you use your computer daily. This setup comes courtesy...

Five Germ Busting Home Gadgets

A few years back, Japanese peripheral maker came out with these M-ABUR series USB mice, specially resin coated to inhibit cooties growth from all the nasty germs on your fingers and hands. You can get...

Look! Perfect Lego Mac Pro

What could be better than a combination of two things that everyone loves: Legos and Macs? Well, at first glance, this seems to be a perfect reproduction of a Mac Pro made out of Lego. That's not the ...

X-Series Dellegno: The Sinking Projection Screen

I wish I had seen this when I was renovating the basement. After flip flopping between a flat panel and a projector, the flat panel won out because I wouldn't have been able to hide the projector scre...

Sound/Chair: The Only Chair You Can Hear

The perfect addition to any audiophile's home: The chair that IS a sound. Based on a three-axis graph of volume and frequency against time, this armchair was the result of a series of trials—and...

The Geek-a-Cycle: A Computer Work/Exercise Station

So yesterday's post about walking while working on the computer was inspiring enough for us to do some research with the goal of finding an exercise mechanism we could use without losing valuable blog...

Good Questions: A Matching White LCD HDTV

Dear AT, I just found a great deal off this Texile Side Unit by Jethro Macey, but I don't even have a TV! Do they even make white LCD ones? A white one would look quite nice! Thanks, -Jenny...

Dalvey Stainless Steel Mouse: Fits in Perfectly

Do you have stainless steel appliances? Well now there is a way to continue this theme in your living room and your home office, with the Grands of Dalvey stainless steel mouse. Some say that it looks...

DIY: 12" Home Subwoofer Parte Uno (Help!)

Hi! This week we are starting a project that will last a few weeks... and it's sort of a Choose Your Own Adventure TM type thing which involves you, the reader. We really enjoy doing these projects b...

Look! Tutus as Decoration

Before we were gabbing away on our Swatch Twin phones, we were investing in tulle tutus trying to mimic the almighty Madonna circa "Like a Virgin" days, which brings us to why, oh why, we are so in lo...

Sonic Lighter: Making Fire Go High-Tech

Holding up lights at concerts is a trend that won't go away. It started with cigarette lighters waved high and proud during "Freebird." But now, even as society shuns smokers and people stop carrying ...

Look! Tetris Tiles

The slow evolution to the Tetris home continues. First the mirrors, then the chairs, and now we have the tiles. We have been dragging our feet on picking a tile for our kitchen backsplash...might thi...

iO Induction: The Green Way of Charging Your iPhone

Imagine this situation: you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with no batteries for your iPod or iPhone and you need a charge. What are you going to do? Now imagine that you are stuck out there in th...

Scavenger: Vintage Radio Cabinet Turned Media Center

Just peeped this on Craigslist. We love how the current owner took advantage of the shelving on this vintage radio cabinet to house their modern A/V equipment. If we had the room for this we'd scoop ...

Small Wonder: The Perfect Way of Capturing HD

Camcorders keep changing formats and size. However, most of us don't need a big video camera. We just need something small to capture our memories, our kids, our dogs, and life in our homes. The RCA S...

Blue Light Special: The Monteal Radio Clock

We once heard somebody say that when function has been perfected and innovation stops, that's when design takes over. We can't see anywhere where that is better exemplified than this clock radio. They...

Roundup: Top 11 Flat Screen Setups on AT

How do you watch TV? Maybe a flat screen TV is on your shopping list today. Or maybe you have one already, and you're planning on spending the upcoming weekend crashed in front of it. Either way, we'v...

Behind the Blog: Workalicious

Our Behind the Blog series continues. Today we have Workalicious. The name is what caught our attention, but the content is definitely what keeps us coming back. Although a relatively new site, we ha...

Charging Station is Stylish, Sleek and an Easy DIY Project

The benefits of a charging station or docking station when it comes to removing visual clutter are incomparable, but this one is just asking to be added to the list of Easy Ways to DIY a Charging Stat...

Thanko Earring Earphones

These new earphones from Thanko are the perfect fashion-meets-tech accessory that we've seen in recent months. The new Sound Lives Magnetic Earphones are offered in a variety of different styles, from...

Separated at Birth? Cordless Swatch-Inspired Phone

Remember the Swatch Twin Phone? Oh man! We got one of those in 6th grade and couldn't deal with how rad it was. That was one of the biggest phone innovations since, well, phones were invented! This i...

Receipt Clock is Like Low-Tech Twitter

Twitter is great for attention whores. If you like everyone to know how you're feeling or what you're doing in an instant wherever they are. We can't really think of what might have been the pre-twitt...

Allsteel: The Chair To Crown All Office Chairs

Aerons have had too much spotlight fun. People are getting bored. They're popping bubble wrap. Behold, the sexy high end office chair alternative - the Allsteel Office Systems Acuity Chair, looking re...

Final Frame: Mauritian Sunset by Sandy Smith

We can't see the sunset, but we do think that this is a pretty cool way to use a pile of old computers. The best part is the dichotomy between the front of the exhibition and the back. Click through t...

The Art of Netflix Origami

We've posted numerous decorative techniques on AT using origami around the home, including towel origami, chandeliers composed of folded paper, and even origami toilet paper techniques. But here's a t...

Flickr Finds: A Perfect Harmony of Aluminum and Wood

It's time to get serious with wood and technology. Well, maybe not too serious, but it sure is something when someone goes all out with both mediums. Those speakers look familiar? Yep, they're none ot...

miShare: The Best Way To Share Music Through iPods

If you are trying to find a great way to swap music and videos with your friends when you are on the go, the miShare is the way to go. Now you can do this without a computer and at the push of a butto...

Survey: How Many Screens Do You Use at Once?

We have done a Roundup for multiple monitor setups before. While we can make the connection between more screen space meaning increased productivity and even less wasted paper, it becomes a bit of a ...

Touchscreen Friendly "Dots" Gloves

Okay, iPhone-ers... maybe you don't want to grab an iPhone stylus because, after all, you bought a touch-screen gadget and you intend to use it that way. But we ask you this: What are you gonna do whe...

Look: Exercising While You Work On the Computer?

[Photo: Chris Machian for The New York Times] Aaron over at ATNY sent over the link to this article about incorporating exercise at the workspace by adding a treadmill to a desk. A well timed link co...

Roundup: Ten Best Hidden Office Solutions

Most of us don't have the extra room for a home office and we end up cramming a desk and all our office gadgets in a corner of our living room or bedroom. It doesn't have to be this way. There are wa...

By Next Year 1 in 5 Households Will be Wireless Only

Do you believe this statement? We do. Based on what you all have said before when asked what phone is your "home" phone and whether or not to keep the landline it doesn't seem too far off. Coming out...

In Case You Missed It: A "Mixed-Tape" Wall

We couldn't help but to send a shoutout to the guys at Re-nest for this awesome find. For those of us who remember making mixtapes from songs off the radio (boy, do we sound old), you'll love this awe...

Kodak Unveils World's First OLED Picture Frame

After Sony unveiled its OLED HDTV, we knew that digital picture frames weren't far behind. Kodak just unveiled their brand new 7.6-inch OLED digital picture frame. ...

CoverLeaf.com is Like iTunes for Magazine Issues

Magazines are great. There are at least a dozen about every subject known to man. They're great to read casually, to clip stories and ideas from or to save and catalog like books. The only problem wit...

Constellation Chandelier: Incredible Lighting From The Stars

What's amazing about this modern piece of lighting is how organic it looks. The individual cords are bunched-up together and will attract the eye no matter where it is placed. This incredible looking ...

Iomega eGo Helium: Super Thin, Possibly A 2nd Cousin of the Macbook Air

Slim enough to fit into a slot on your briefcase or backpack, Iomega's new addition to the saturated 2.5" portable hard drive market is unique enough to gain some attention, but originality-wise, is a...

News: Webble Finally Available!

It has been a while since we first spied this skateboard looking mesh contraption. June 2007 to be exact. While the shoes in the ad got as much attention from our faithful unplggd readers as the Web...

Polynapping Makes its Way Into Our Tech

If you've never heard of polyphasic sleep or polynapping, let us break it down for you: It's a sleep schedule dreamed up by the Renaissance Man, Leonardo DaVinci, that gives the user a solid 21-hour d...

Look! Cell Phone Towers Hidden in Plants and Architecture

No one wants a cell phone tower in their neighborhood. Aside from the possible health ramifications, they're a total eyesore. Unfortunately, with over 250 million users in the U.S. we can't avoid putt...

The World's Slimmest Computer

After reporting on the SpaceCube, we weren't surprised to find out that the fit-PC Slim would be the latest and smallest computer available today. Just as we mentioned, the fit-PC Slim is billed as th...

New iPhone Accessories from Griffin Unveiled

Griffin Technology's latest iPhone accessories were unveiled yesterday at the opening of Apple Expo Paris: A new iPhone and iPhone 3G dock that uses absolutely no electronics in it's sound-amplifying ...

Final Frame: Jaybo Will Paint Your House, Armed with a Projector

Taking on the Berliner Dom, street artist Jaybo transforms the building into a work of art by projecting an array of Mickey Mouse hands all over the front of the building....

Look: DIY Automated Pop-up Kitchen Spice Rack

Mix one part Extreme Makeover: Home Edition with another part Alton Brown and Good Eats and you might find yourself with something as geeky keen as this pop-up spice rack... ...

Trigano: The Infinity Pools Of Tables

This incredible looking coffee table was designed by Michael Laut. It's an architectural piece of modern living and will spruce-up any space, be it your living room or your home office (wouldn't this ...

What do Your Gadgets Tell a Stranger About You?

A friend of ours just moved into a condo they're renting from a stranger (Ya gotta love Craigslist!). Everything is pretty much full-service for her there. The cable, electricity, furniture and all of...

HP Wireless Desktop Features A Ctrl+Alt+Del Key

Not only does this new HP wireless keyboard and mouse combo look good, it features something that we haven't seen on any other keyboard: a Ctrl+Alt+Del key. If you don't know what that is, it's a key ...

Block Light: Lighting, One Piece at a Time

As a former Lego-maniac we've always held onto a deep seeded fondness for interlocking blocks of almost any kind. Partner this up with an interest for customization and DIY, and you'd be fair to assum...

Look! Fun Goods from Charles & Marie

Ok, so we've made a call on vintage tech becoming a new décor trend, but what about using vintage tech as a modding trend? Above you'll see the ear and mouth piece of an old school telephone receive...

Survey: Bluray vs. Digital Downloads, Paving The Way For High-Definition

While the HD-DVD and Bluray war is now a distant memory, this doesn't mean Bluray can pop open a Pepsi and hang out. No sir, the next biggest threat for the Sony discs is the Internet itself! That's r...

Miele EcoLine Green Vac Sucks Dirt, Not Energy

Ask several of the staff which vacuum we recommend and you'll undoubtedly hear the brand Miele. Both myself and Aaron over at ATNY have gushed about the tested and proven performance of the Miele vacs...

Look! iPhone Cupcakes

Is it getting close to lunchtime? Is your stomach starting to rumble? Even though your iPhone does a lot of things, don't you just wish that you could eat it sometimes? Well, now these iPhone themed c...

Re(al)view: Incase 2-in-1 Wall & Car Charger

This will be a pretty quick review for the simple fact we can sum things up quite easily: if you own an iPod or iPhone, get this. The Incase 2-in-1 Wall & Car Charger has proven to be a life saver for...

iPhone Stylus Means Less Typing Mistakes

This post is not for the skinny-fingered. Do you have strong thick digits and a taste for Mac? Do your texts look like this?: Hey how's itg oing? Do you wnst to cathc s mocvie latet? Hit mee on muycve...

360 Rotating Outlet Finally Available

We've all had those moments - you know, where you try to plug in two kitchen appliances next to each other, but they all use weird shaped plugs designed by idiot designers to make your life all the mo...

Hello AT: DC & Boston!

After a few months of testing and tweaking, we are proud to announce the launch of our new, separate Boston and DC sites over at Apartment Therapy! Please click on over and say hello to: >> AT:Bos...

How To: Save Your USB Drive from Certain Death

We love getting great tips on how to use common household items in unintended ways. This tip comes from James Fallows at The Atlantic. After a dramatic ordeal with replacing missing files on a lost US...

Look! Zoom Lens Coffee Mug

This is the perfect mug to start out your days, if you are a photography buff. This coffee mug looks like it's made out of a zoom lens. It's hard not to like this mug, even though it's still a concept...

Flickr Finds: Aerial Audiophile Desktop

We've seen a lot of great spaces from France lately. Quentin's home office is no exception. We don't know if it's the overhead shot that makes his space look so cool, or the fact that all his equipme...

Rotary Phone Turned USB Hub Makes Desks Look Chic

If you're both a techie and a designer at heart, you've probably battled this beast a time or two before: How do you keep all your necessary gadgets at hand, but still keep a "homey" feel? Well if you...

Gentle Wave: The Perfect Lounge Chair

Lounge chairs can be used to take a naps, to comfortably access your laptop/computer or watch a movie on your home theater system. The Gentle Wave Lounge chair is the ultimate in lounge chairs or chai...

Western Digital Rolls Out Elite Passports, Unstackable In Comparison

While I'm still pretty happy with my Western Digital Passport 250GB purchased about a year ago for about $120, every time they do another redesign, the more I want to just go out and buy another to c...

Air Media Remote: Use Movement To Control Media PC

If you are in love with the Nintendo Wii and the Wiimote, this might be the perfect universal remote control for you. The Movea Gyration Air Music Remote with MotionSense (I kid you not!) offers all t...

Blogging... Elle Decor

We usually don't condone televisions in the bathroom (a bit much, no?), but this execution is pretty marvelous. Found in the New York home of fashion designer Adam Lippes, this Sharp Aquos flat scree...

Green Idea: Kinetically Powered Camera

In an age where a digital camera's megapixel count keep climbing, the power demands of these devices keeps getting more significant. If you take a lot of photographs and are worried about the environm...

Our Little White Sofa: Perfect For Lounging With Your Laptop

This is the first sofa that we've seen that's designed for both outdoor and indoor use. There is nothing greater than a multifunctional piece of furniture. Christian Vivanco designed it and it looks p...

Flickr Bikes: Picture Assignments by Users for Users

So picture this, you are out on a purple bike and as soon as you start riding it, the camera phone mounted to your handlebars snaps a picture every 60 seconds. Stop moving for more than three minutes ...

Pimp My Living Room: Go Black, Get Glossy

A fan of black? Like shiny things? Don't have that much money, but looking for the very best? We've got you covered. For this roundup, we have our budget-savvy glossy black edition for college student...

Modular Refrigerator:The New Way to Share Fridge Space

Having roommates is a love-hate situation. Sharing the rent and household chores? Both great deals. But when it comes to sharing space, it gets tougher. Divvying up the fridge is one of the hardest pa...

Look! NEC's 82-inch LCD Panel

Chances are that not a lot of people will buy this monster of a flatscreen, but it sure looks good. For these 82" of viewing pleasure, you'll have to pay $55,000. What? Are you saying that 82" aren't ...

Trend Alert: Vintage Gizmos Hit the Mainstream

Remember when back in the day we asked if using obsolete tech as décor was hot? Well, looks like it's not just hot, it's a trend. Urban Outfitters is jumping on the bandwagon, selling manual typewri...

Something We Won't be Picking Up Anytime Soon

This is good for a morning chuckle: With our love of Apartment Therapy's September Pets Month, we're stuck to our computer screens and making a mental list of some new toys and gadgets to pamper our P...

Final Frame: You Think You're Attached to Tech?

If you don't need to have your cell phone built into your neck brace, then you must not be as dedicated to technology as Francesca Lanzavecchia thinks you could be. She is the designer behind a series...

Knitted Power Cord Has Us In Stitches

Normally we try everything in our power to hide power cords from view. But we think this Knitted Power Cord made with cotton and acrylic blend yarn is so cool, we'd actually want a tangle of them arou...

Hello! Spunky Little Pixel Characters Help You Keep Tabs

Oh, goodness, the cute little things you find on the internet. From J. Story, a Korean based designer, comes these adorable little guys that look like they've been kidnapped from some type of video ga...

Roundup: Top 5 Remote Universal Controls

Finding the right remote control for your home theater system isn't always easy, especially when they can cost as much as some HDTVs. This roundup includes all sorts of remotes. One of them will surel...

Because We Can: Flat-pack Office Furniture

Flat pack, playful and requiring no connectors. Just a tight friction fit and away you go. The kids have the Grimm Chair so it's only fair that mommy and daddy having something just as fun at the offi...

Oficio: The Mullet of Workstations

The Oficio Worktable by Quentin Vaulot and Luiza Barroso attempts to "visualize the creative process as it progresses from chaos to order." We think it does an accurate job of capturing the spirit of ...

Xbox360: 10 Things You Never Knew It Could Do

Sure, there are more elaborate physical hacks you can unleash on your Xbox 360, but software definitely holds its grounds in terms of expanding usability and features (just look at our PS3 Tversity wa...

After Latte Printer Comes Toaster Printer

A few weeks ago, we reported about a latte printer that printed images on foam. Now you can print things on your toasts as well. The Scan Toaster printer is the brainchild of South Korean designer Sun...

Re(al)view: Unique Skins Blackberry Skin

Ok, we finally got our personalized Blackberry skin from Unique Skins in the mail; you may remember we posted about this last week. The quality of the image print is pretty impressive, but trying to g...

Bloom! Portable Lighting at Maison & Objet Paris 2008

Bloom! is the dutch company known for it's oversized, illuminated, polycarbonate planters and smaller, solar powered Daylight. Continuing the evolution of the Bloom! line is the newly introduced port...

Look! Sony OLED Displays Are Only 3mm Thick

The next phase in display technology will hit the market soon. Sony recently showcased a 3mm thick OLED HDTV. Granted, this one was only 11" big, but this is going to be the wave of the future. The ot...

Eizo Mouse/Remote Control Combo: Ideal For Home Theater PCs

When you are setting up your home theater system, you will usually look for a way to integrate a PC into the console mix. It's not always easy and doesn't always look nice. However, there a loads of s...

Home Office All-In-One: All in One Tiny Cabinet

When space in your place is at a premium (We're lookin' at you, NYC Unplggers!), it can be really tough to edit down and decide which "rooms" you do and don't need to make space for. When need some ro...

Who Needs a Car or a Home?Just Throw Your Stereo on Your Bike

Growing up, car audio was a bit of a hobby. The scene was all about having big, expensive and powerful speakers, but many times actually ended up being worth more then the car itself. Looking at this ...

Seagate FreeAgent Desk and FreeAgent Go for Mac Giveaway

Product: Seagate FreeAgent Desk and FreeAgent Go for Mac This weekend we got down to the nitty gritty business of changing out a secondary internal hard drive. We had to change out the guts of our sy...

Defragmenting: Saving The Planet, One Computer at a Time

While debatable, even to this day, the benefits - we prefer to utilize nothing but pure logic to justify the action of defragmenting. Like a messy desk, you tend to work harder trying to get things do...

Skeleton PC Case: The Bare Bones of Style and Function

Worried about airflow and overheating with your gadgets? It's a valid concern for a common problem. Well how's this: The Skeleton PC Case from Antec allows for unprecedented airflow because it's essen...

Look! 3M Pico-Projector Ships Later This Month

Pico-projectors have been the talk of display technology for the last few months. Finally, we will see the first pico-projector that's ready to hit the market later this month. This comes just after T...

Blogging...Martha Stewart Circa April 2008

One of the great things about bodegas in New York City is that in some of them you can find back issues of magazines for 1/2 off. A few weeks ago we scored some old copies of Martha Stewart, one of wh...

Bring a Little Bling to Your Coffee Table

Most of the time, we suggest being thrifty and editing down your space and budget into a home that's just right for you. But other times, a little splurging is in order. What's been your biggest tech ...

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...