Apartment Therapy Unplugged - Archive for the week of 2008-09-28

Final Frame: Old Tymes = Good Tymes

Does anyone remember this guy?...

Lifegoods Two Lamps: A Stylish Two in One Solution

We were pretty impressed by the Swiss design studio Lifegoods when we saw the Two-Lamps desk lamp. It combines two lamps into one, a flashlight and a desk lamp. Lifegoods' most recent work was feature...

Eco-Button Blasts Your Unit Into Hypersleep

Don't you wish saving the world was easy? Don't you wish you could just push a button and drastically reduce your energy consumption? Well, you can. One push of this Captain Planet-themed button activ...

Tiny Wireless USB Keyboard

We reported on a Super Tiny USB Wireless keyboard from Brando a few weeks ago, but the one complaint that people might have had with it is simply that it's too tiny. Why do people need these itsy bits...

Flickr Finds: Game Room Kitchen

You know that saying, "If you're going to do something, might as well do it better than everybody else." Well, here's a fine example of exactly that mantra set into motion. While building a $1.5 milli...

DIY: Stealth Swann Security System, Parte 2

Remember the owl with the SwannDVR4-Pro-Net 4-Channel Security System with 8.4" Monitor stuffed in it? Well, just the camera... That was fun... we also talked a bit about wooden cameras... and this w...

Roundup: Five Best Record Storing Ideas

Paul Mawhinney owns the world's largest record collection with an astonishing 3 million records. Some are so rare they can't be found anywhere else. Until February of this year they were stored ...

The Steampunk... Office?

You know how when a trend gets tired you can start to pinpoint exactly where it went wrong? Well, we'd like to declare Steampunk dead right here, but we're pretty sure this won't be the end. This ste...

iDesk: If You Love Macs But Hate Wires

We think you'd have to really hate dealing with cables to spend $3000 on this desk, but it does go eerily well with your iPod, iPhone and iMac in both styling, compatibility and, of course, nomenclatu...

How To: Prepare Your Own DIY Speaker Wires

For those who are just starting out or are looking to upgrade their home theater setup, speaker wires (and everything about them) gradually become one of the main issues that come up. What gauge is be...

An External Hard Drive Hanging On For Dear Life

Having an external hard drive to back up all your data is a good idea. You never know what could happen at any moment. But it's tougher for us laptop-wielding nomads. With such a portable computer, we...

Look! Eepybird's Sticky Note Experiment

TGIF. We hope you can take some time out of your day, whether it be at the office or your home office, to remember to have some fun. This should do it!...

Flickr Finds: A Mac Classic Desktop

Actually, it isn't a Mac Classic, but a Macintosh SE/30, but it looks pretty much the same. JD Wages has put together his desk with the preceding computer with a Newton 2100. What's really interesting...

Home Office: Adding Space, Living on the Edge

From the New York Times, we found a clever idea that may just leave you on the edge of your seat. Or bed, that is. Kayt Brumder designed a lofted bed for her boyfriend that is "effectively supported" ...

Flickr Finds: Modern and Minimal Living Room

Stumbled upon Amanda's great Brooklyn living room the other day. We love how big the space is and how it's kept looking big with a minimal amount of furniture and dÃ©cor. The other reason we love thi...

Blogging MTV's The Hills: FIDM's Computer Lab

Love it or hate it, you'd have to be living under a rock to not know about the hit MTV show, The Hills. Following Lauren Conrad, a fashion design student and reality TV royalty, the show hits on some ...

Final Frame: Pallet Paradise

Wouter - Pallet Paradise: Desks, shelving and entertainment storage, all made from recycled materials. That children's desk with wall shelving is a (day)dream come true!...

Amadana Cordless Phone: Stylish and Unique

The Japanese company Amadana has come out with a beautiful looking phone. What is really interesting about this phone is that you can rest the phone on its charging stand on either the front or back s...

Find a Home With Your iPhone

Coldwell Banker has made a smart move on their part by taking the lead in the real estate market by creating a new website tailored specifically for real estate browsing on the iPhone or iPod Touch. T...

Look! Old Tech Shelf Museum

We've seen, more than once, people that like to display old, outdated technology as if they were art pieces. This shelf display from Randy Pitchford's office, one of the founders of Gearbox Software, ...

Go White! Tank Collection Desk Radiates Elegance

For those opposed to going aluminum, why not sway to the lighter side with Tank Collection's Height-adjustable Desk. It's glossy smoothness is reminiscent of Apple's shiny white Macbook, but its playf...

Amphibx: Waterproof Headphones And Armbands

If you are the type of person that faces torrential rains or water on a regular basis, you might be worried about your spanking new iPod. iPods and water don't mix well. That's why H20 has come out wi...

The Perfectly Organized Home Office

Virginia's home office corner shown above is an inspiration to us for several reasons (so much so, Beth over at ATLA has highlighted it also): there's a spot for all her components, the printer sits c...

Dehumidifier Makes Drinking Water Out of Air

The sustainable RV we posted earlier today may want to consider getting a Watermill. A glorified dehumidifier, the Watermill draws in moisture from the air around it, passing the water through a carb...

If All Movies Had Cell Phones...

If you're like us, you find yourself screaming at the screen whenever a movie character does something stupid. The obvious remark is yelling, "Don't go upstairs!" to the horror film vixen. But which o...

Thursday Giveaway Winner (and a Tech Tip)

We'd like to congratulate Unplggd reader, JayNY1, who was randomly chosen as last week's Thursday giveaway winner. He'll be receiving his prize package of an Incase 13" KRINK Macbook Sleeve, a 3G iPh...

DIY Smart Coasters Tell You What You Already Know

Techie coasters have been popping up everywhere. We've already blogged about coasters themed after circuit boards, floppy disks, pixelated images, Apple compatible icons, vintage records, Polaroids, a...

LG HS102 Projector: Movies on Your Wall of Choice

Ever feel like it'd be so much easier if you could pocket that projector and throw it up on any random white wall around the house to watch TV or a movie? LG hears ya - in fact, they've created an ult...

Coosh Headphones: Stays On, Feels Good...

...or so their tagline says. From their site, we get the idea that these headphones and headsets were designed with break dancers in mind. Their detachable "ear-rings" keep the earbuds in place while ...

Prometeo: Charge Your Gadgets With Solar Power

Solar powered chargers are the latest fashion. We've seen jackets, backpacks and other devices that promise you to charge your gadgets. The Prometeo just seems more useful. It was designed for Samsung...

Nintendo Announces The Nintendo DSi

Remember that rumor we speculated a few days back? Well, it looks like it's coming true, and not a day too soon. The new DSi will feature a 3MP dual camera, built in memory with SD card expansion, dou...

Home Office on Wheels

Talk about a small office! Matt and Sara (and their young daughter) all share space in a 36-foot long RV. The space, which holds their bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, and living room, also features a ve...

Battery Powered DTV Converter Box Might Save Your Butt

If there's anything this year has taught us, it's to be prepared for anything. From market meltdowns to natural disasters, it never hurts to have a plan, a solar flashlight, a solar cell phone charger...

Final Frame: The One System We'll Always Remember

From artist hassmework over at DeviantArt comes a fantastic vector render that immediately brought a smile to our faces. Minimalistic and retro, that's what we call awesome, Batman!...

Globus: The Collapsible Office

Many people working from home face the challenge of an ever decreasing space. It's not easy to setup a home office when space is at a premium. Even though the above image might look a bit confusing, t...

How to: Make Your Digital Photos Look Old

Flickr Finds: Comfy Breakfast NookWe love making old things new again but today we have had so much fun making new things old. Donâ€™t worry, we donâ€™t mean nasty paint jobs to give furniture that â€...

Steampunk Cell Phone Takes Tech Backwards

We love the creativity and innovation (retro-vation?) that comes from Steampunk modifications to modern technology. Some great ideas come from taking a completely new gadget and making it something th...

Decarus: Turn Your Living Room Into An Art Installation

These beautiful wooden pieces by DECARUS follow the philosophy of old wood. Old wood is fascinating - it tells a story, a culture, and just feels so much nicer than laminate particle wood. A few of th...

Pouf-Man: Pac-Man Inspired Furniture

At first glance, this seating arrangement seems kind of odd until you realize what you are looking at. Pouf-Man is QAYOT's homage to one of the stars of arcade videogames, back when people actually we...

Re(al)view: Brondell Swash Ecoseat Bidet Has Got Our Back(side)

Okay, for those of you who are sensitive about topics involving bathroom hygiene, we politely ask you to skip this post as we intend to go into a bit of detail about our experience with a sensitive su...

Dreams Ban Clock Helps You Save for a Rainy Day

If you're trying to save money, we don't blame you. These are fickle times and it's always good to have some cash to sit on if need be. If you're the type who's been saving since you turned 15, then c...

The More You Know: iTunes U

Whether you're a matriculating student or not, one of the best offerings in the iTunes store right now is iTunes U. If you haven't noticed it in the top left nav bar, it's worth checking out: With th...

SunNight Solar BoGo Flashlight Lights Up Lives

Here's a home tech item designed with pragmatic and humanitarian goals in mind. Like the OLPC laptop program, where the purchase of a laptop results in the donation of another laptop for a child in a ...

Do You Trust Your GPS Navigator?

We've got some weird news: For the second time, a man in Bedford Hills, New York has trusted his GPS so much that he followed directions onto a set of train tracks last night. He made it out, but the ...

Generate Air Purifier: Looks Like A Fancy Garbage Can

We must admit, our skepticism towards air purifiers have been pretty high since that Sharper Image ozone scare, but designer Naoto Fukasawa hopes to change all that. To the very least, he promises to ...

How To: Make An Emergency Solar Cell Phone Charger

We're close to seeing the end of hurricane season (November 30). But beacuse disasters of all kinds can strike at any time, it's never a bad idea to be prepared. With more and more people dropping the...

Look! Panasonic's 150" HDTV

There's big, and then there's bigger. If you thought that 65" or even 85" would be the biggest, you would be wrong. Panasonic has just come out with their 150" plasma screen. Yes, that's one hundred a...

Pottery Barn's Apothecary Media Cabinet

Remember that apothecary cabinet we saw in Elle Decor? Well we just found something similar in Pottery Barn, no this isn't a Friends joke, and it'll not only hold smaller items, it doubles as a media...

The Mac Market is Hot and Targus Knows It

It's no secret (at least not to us here at Unplggd) that Mac-heads will stop at nothing to make sure their peripherals match their beloved MacBooks (read: they'll shell out loads of dough). It's that ...

Final Frame: Short Message Stitch

Embroidered Text Messages, received 02/06-04/07 by Ginger Anyhow...

Roundup: 5 Clever Reuses For Your G4 Cube

Seeing how people are starting to dig up that iconic Power Mac G4 cube and reuse them for all sorts of personal pleasures, we believe a roundup is in order. Here's a few things you can do with that am...

Look! Cross-Cube MP3 Player

This little MP3 player concept was designed by the Id+Im design lab from Korea. It won a prestigious international IDEA design award, which is quite impressive. The Cross-Cube MP3 player unfolds from ...

Look! iPod Survives Being Crushed by a Truck

We've all read the reports saying that iPods are tough. But how tough is that, exactly? Well, tough enough to survive being crushed by a pickup truck! Incredibly, this iPod Touch is still alive and ac...

Fujitsu Concept Phone Does What You Need It To Do

Another find from CEATEC 2008: The Fujitsu Concept Phone. A brilliant idea, this phone is made up of two pieces, one for a display screen and one touchscreen keyboard, that can be configured in a few ...

How To Make A High-Fidelity Homemade Loudspeaker

After having built a homemade speaker with a plastic cup, Jose Pino decided to try and make something newer version, simpler and better. His step-by-step guide will help you create your own. His guide...

Look! Swissmiss' Sneak Peek at Design Sponge

We've always followed Swissmiss' blog on a daily basis for wonderful design ideas day in and day out; but to have another favorite blog, Design Sponge, do a feature on her space gets us quadruply exci...

Last Day to Enter: Incase and Bluelounge On the Go Giveaway

Just a reminder that today is the last day to enter to win the On the Go Incase and Bluelounge Accessories giveaway package. We'll be contacting a winner tomorrow, so enter by midnight tonight to be i...

Inspiration: Calming Blue Walls in Home Office

Found on ATSF, this adorable home office/craft station in Leah's new dining room. The desk is West Elm's white Parsons (also found in Victoria's house), the vintage tulip-style chair was found on eBa...

Recycled Art: Batteries Blossom a Piece for Your Mantle

The Dead Star. An art piece by Michel de Broin and currently on display at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York. While this glued mass of recycled batteries does look like it's about ...

Toshiba Media Server Syncs Your Multimedia Library

This media server is a concept unveiled from Toshiba at CEATEC 2008. It's supposed to show how a cellphone, this media server and a TV (with wireless HD) could interact in the near future. We're just ...

Look! iPhone Coasters

Are you getting enough out of your iPhone? If eating iPhone cupcakes isn't enough for you, then maybe you should try some coasters instead. Meninos Design from Brazil came out with these neat icon coa...

The Ring Signaler: See Your Phone Ring

As someone with a 9 month old son, I have quickly realized that there are a couple of things that I had taken for granted pre baby. The first is that when adults are tired, they go to sleep. Simple. W...

Audiophile Porn: Ferguson Hill Mini Speakers

Here's a conversation we overheard at our local electronics store the other day. Customer: "So I heard these speakers you have on display are pretty much crap compared to the Fergusons." Sales Rep: "...

Lee Broom: Embellishing Old Stuff with New Tech

These art pieces aren't exactly anything you'd buy for your home. But it's pretty interesting to see what some designers are doing to mix technology with home furnishings, and the results are surprisi...

Look! Biodegradable Cell Phones

SonyEricsson just unveiled their a new concept eco-friendly cell phone. It's a biodegradable phone. This is the type of phone that you could just throw away, once you got tired of it. For now, this ty...

Look! TV Mounted Above Fireplace

There are lots of places to place a flat screen when you're willing to look to your walls for support. Jonathan Craddock and his wife decided the empty spot above their fireplace was the best place f...

Flickr Finds: Going Lo-Fi, Not Just Because of Recession

As our economy continues its downward spiral, it's easy to forget all the things we've gained throughout the times of good. In 1988, when this photo was taken, all you needed was a tiny television and...

Minimalist Clock Doubles as Fashion Accessory

We're loving wearable home tech right now. First, the wearable headphone necklace. Now, the necklace clock. From Icelandic designer Thorunn Arnadottir, the necklace clock displays the time in an abacu...

Final Frame: And I'm a PC [dot] Com

We're sure you haven't missed the new PC commercial that came back at the nearly-slanderous Mac ads. Well now their catch phrase has become an internet phenomenon that is making somebody very, very ri...

Go Aluminum! MUJI Table at MoMA

Sure, many may make the mistake of throwing this table into the pile of last decade's "steel modern tables," but taking a closer look at the MUJI Aluminum Table and you'll find heavy influences from t...

Gold Plated iPods: Feeling Like Having Some Extra Bling?

If you feel that your iPod Nano or your iPod Touch doesn't have enough bling, maybe you'll consider having it goldplated? Goldstriker offers you this service, for a modest premium of course. Some migh...

Brainball: The Relaxed Party Game

This is not a game of Cranium, but rather a game that is won or lost based on what is going on in your Cranium. How do you play? Make sure that there is nothing going on in your head. Literally. Check...

Apple Rumors: What's All About The Brick?

Apple is hosting yet another big bash in October similar to the "Let's Rock" event recently that unleashed a whole spectrum of iPod Nanos. Nobody at Apple has let the entire cat out of the bag on what...

Rainbow Star LED Lamps: Changing The Mood of Any Room

We are fans of LED lamps. The enable you to change the mood and atmosphere of a room quite easily. Rainbow Star Lamps from Lumenworks are color-changing LED lamps. Just like the LivingColor lights fro...

Sacramento Cinder Block Home

Not all of us mount our flat screens (if we have them). Rearranged Design features a house tour with Sacramento dweller, Juju. She's been living in a cinder block house for five years and one of the ...

WM25 Wire Stay: Keep Those Cords Where You Need Them. On Top of Your Desk

I have recently been having trouble with my wireless printing setup at home which has resulted in me stringing a USB cable up and over the back of my desk from the printer below. Because I only run la...

Rumor Mill: New Nintendo DS Lite's By The End of the Year

It looks like Nintendo's done updating just color schemes on their ridiculously popular Nintendo DS Lite system - instead, expect an on-board camera, better WiFi, and music playback to be just a few o...

Look! Ctrl-Alt-Del Cups

Taiwan's MOD Design designed these appropriately named Reset Cups, which are larger-than-life version of the iconic keys that are found on all PCs. This combination of keys is used to either reboot or...

Woodchuck iPod/Laptop Speaker Set

Looking for a cheap pair of speakers for your laptop or iPod? The Woodchuck speakers aren't made out of wood, but have a wood grain motif. The pair of speakers are perfect for mobile use....

Ceramic Kitchen Radio: Goes Great With Breakfast

Perfect for catching some of the morning news while you sip your coffee, the Ceramic Kitchen Radio from Agata Norkroos is a minimalist and sleek radio that perfectly complements your coffee cup and te...

SimpleTech: Yeah, That's 3TB of Space, You Heard Right

Those running short on space for whatever reason may consider keeping an eye out on this bad boy. SimpleTech's Pro external hard drive utilizes two 1.5TB drives to create a 3TB array; large enough num...

Flat Glass Panels to Kill the Lightbulb?

Planilum. What sounds like the material that should be powering the flux capacitor in Marty McFly's Delorean is actually a special type of light emitting glass. At first glance, it looks like many of ...

Unplggd's Sales Calendar: 20% Off Select Dell Monitors, 48 Hour Sale

Been thinking about making the jump to multi-monitor goodness? With this latest "back to school" sale from Dell, you can finally make that dream a reality. At least, for much cheaper than you would if...

Xerox Erasable Paper: Green Idea = Good Idea?

We know, we know... isn't all paper erasable if you use a pencil? That's true, of course, but the innovation in Xerox's new erasable paper is that messages printed onto the paper will fade off of the ...

Blackbook M: The Android Phone You'll Want

Personally, I find the design of the HTC G1 a bit unappealing. That's why I found this design tantalizing. It's a concept phone named the Blackbook M designed by Emre Durmus, a freelance photographer ...

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...

Bathomatic: Luxury Tech for the Tub

Put another score on the board for "wired" bathrooms being the newest home trend. The Bathomatic is a fully automated digital bath filler that allows you to fill up your bathtub remotely, even going s...

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