Apartment Therapy Unplugged - Archive for the week of 2008-12-07

Holiday shopping is in full swing, and you've got a friend or loved who is a little bit geeky, has a indie crafty streak and pines for the days of old tech like 8-bit gaming, audio tapes and floppy di...

Loudspeaker Cuckoo Clock: Adding a Bit of Kinetic Energy To Your Music

What do you get when you combine a loudspeaker with a cuckoo clock? This isn't something that people usually have questions about, but Stéphane Vigny thought about this long and hard before modifying...

Hot or Not? Star Wars Media Room

Star Wars Home Theater in Los Angeles - enough seating for the imperial army... ...

Sonoro Cubo Elements: A Sleek and Beautiful Clock Radio

Most clock radios are a bit depressing. They rarely look interesting and do the dirty deed of waking us up each morning. Some function better than others, while others like the Philips Wake-Up Light p...

DIY: A Holiday Tech Infused Mantel, on the Cheap

We showcase a lot of projects from speakers to curtains, back to speakers to tables and back to speakers again… we have something wrong with us. This week we have begun work on a Mantel for the fi...

Flickr Finds: David Poe's Vintage Camera Collection

It's disputable whether or not steampunk will stay in for the next few years, but if there's one thing from the mid-century era that we love more than anything are vintage, metal-rusted cameras from t...

Mod Master High Schooler Makes Lego Playstation

The Lego train is still going strong. Just one click into our Lego archives and you'll find such brilliant ideas as a Lego radiator, glowing block Lego lights and a super secure Lego safe. But we can ...

PlayStation Home Beta Open for Business

It was not a video game that initially tempted us to purchase a Playstation 3 when it first launched, but the promise of a virtual 3D social community where users could interact with others and also d...

A Reluctant Roundup: Gaming Chairs

With multiple systems and a game-loving family, gaming is simply a part of life at home. BUT...we definitely have never felt the need to purchase special seating for game time and honestly, don't plan...

Hourglass Lantern: Turning LEDs on Their Sides

Not sure why, but hourglasses have always made us nervous. Maybe it's seeing the way they were always used to show a finite amount of time until a (usually bad) conclusion. It makes the simple visual ...

The Logitech Comfort Lapdesk

If there's one thing we've learned throughout our years growing up, it's the importance of ergonomics and comfort when it comes to playing around on our favorite laptops. Despite all this, we still co...

The Sawstop: Put Your Finger Where Your Mouth Is

Does that title make sense? Maybe put you money where your finger is? Anyways, woodworking is a bit of a hobby over here at unplggd and with that comes power tools and sharp, spinning discs of steel...

The Manfrotto: Weird Name, Seriously Small Tripod

If a semi-permanent tripod mounted to your camera and built in with a case wasn't your style (you already have a case you like, maybe), and a water bottle tripod is juts not profesh enough for you (yo...

Final Frame: The End is Near...

A felty reminder that the Digital TV Transition is looming really near. Get yourself a converter box or you won't even be seeing those colour test bars....

Copy and Paste on iPhone Tomorrow?

Well, since Apple is not bringing copy and paste to the iPhone, looks like someone else has picked up the slack. Pastebud, the iPhone app shown above brings a copy and paste feature to the iPhone tom...

Seskimo BatRest: A Iphone Stand That Fits In Your Wallet

When you are on the go, and far from your iPhone dock, it's always a hassle to find a way to put down your phone. The one thing that you don't want to happen is for your precious iPhone to drop on the...

Look! Roland TR-808 Pillow

Beat Box 808 Kissen and Big Muff Kissen are perfect gifts for that synth-loving musician in your family. Someone make me a Photoshop toolbar pillow now to match the OS X Dock pillow set we've had our...

Desk, Stool & Lamp with Integrated Charging Stations by Jarl Fernaeus

In addition to integrating a charging station for phones, cameras and MP3 players, this desk and stool combo from Swedish designer Jarl Fernaeus features an integrated lamp and storage compartments......

Vitra Panton Chair: The Perfect Desk Chair?

We spend a great deal of time at the computer — between two full time design jobs and our blogging gig here on AT, our behinds are glued to a desk chair for the majority of the day, everyday. So...

EOps: Sculpturesque Wireless Looking Ipod Dock

At Unplggd, we pride ourselves of trying to go wireless, as much as possible. That's why we think that wireless iPod docks are really great. They cut down on wires and enable you to do even more cable...

Scandyna Micropod Speakers Get The Pink Treatment

While Nintendo, Microsoft, Dyson, Sony, and Dell have all had their share of pink product coverage - a pink iPod dock shouldn't have been too far away. Why it has taken so long for a manufacturer to t...

Parra Designed The Perfect Unison Headphones

Dutch artist Parra collaborated with label The Perfect Unison to create these sweet looking headphones made of Finnish birch and adorned with a bit of unexpected artwork on the side that reminds you t...

Think Twice Before Engraving that iPod you're Gifting

The free engraving that Apple and some other gadget manufacturers offer seems like a great way to personalize a gift for somebody you care about. (Well, you care about them enough to buy them an iPod,...

Wonderfactory's Wonderful Employee Lounge

Now this is a lounge we can play in. Found in the NYC office of the Wonderfactory, a design and branding company, this employee lounge features Rock Band guitars that are placed on the wall as artwor...

Workbay Task Chair by the Bouroullec Brothers

Aaron over at ATNY posted this office task chair which reminds us of a hooded sweatshirt. We want one ourselves now, considering the amount of ambient noise that enters our small office this could blo...

Win this Colby MP3 Audio from Pottery Barn!
Holiday Giveaway 2008

To Main Giveaway Page Name: Colby MP3 Audio Maker: Pottery Barn Value: $169 Today in our Holiday Giveaway we're pleased to present this Colby MP3 Audio from Pottery Barn. The newest addition to th...

(Another) Recycled iPhone Stand: With Help from Polaroid

We have to wonder why anybody would spend money on a dock or stand for their iPhone when there are so many green DIY options ready to be rigged up. We just featured this post on a stand made from bind...

Got Milk? LED Milk Glasses Add Touch of Fun, Confuses Santa

While we're big fans of creative sculpture lighting, it's hard to find one that's both non-obtrusive and as affordable as these clever cups filled with white light-emitting diodes giving off the illus...

Evolve: The Intelligent Showerhead

What is your morning shower routine? Does it sound anything like this: Stumble into the shower half asleep Get the water running Stick your toe of hand under aforementioned running water until i...

Truly Geeky Casio Calculator Watches Get a Facelift

Admit it: You're still wearing the Casio calculator watch that your mom gave you when you were just a wee little geek. We've heard all the excuses, like how it's so convenient to have a calculator on ...

Final Frame: FrequenCity

FrequenCity art print by Dan Rule ...

HP Flexible Display: Cheap and Unbreakable Screen Technology

In science-fiction and in the movies, display screens are always impressive. Whether it's the giant plasma screen or the holographic projections, things are always visually appealing in fiction. What ...

Epoch Clock: A Great Way to Convert Time

Have you ever wanted to convert time into other formats? We don't mean converting from a 12-hour cycle to 24, but in different number formats, like binary and hexadecimal? Well now there is an easier ...

Black & Decker's Thermal Leak Detector

There is nothing the least bit scientific about how we check for leaks in our own home. For example: It often feels cold near our windows -- we assume there is a leak. See what we mean? But what abou...

Flickr Finds: Tim Samoff's Emotion Studio

What would your perfect home office look like? How about if you had an unlimited budget? One thing is for sure, most of us would opt for a multitude of screens in order to get the most screen real est...

Samsung: "Touched By Color" Gets a Different Meaning

Not only has Samsung repeatedly topped the charts with its sales these past few years, we've recently found out that they've also made great strides in producing greener and more efficient sets. Case ...

Nixie Clocks at BDDW

We have been looking at these through the window at BDDW for months. Very steam punk in high, high class case, these clocks are one of the latest inventions by Tyler Hays and come in multiple shapes,...

Hope This Lightbulb Doorknob Doesn't Get Too Hot

We don't know why there's all the sudden some attention for out-of-the-ordinary doorknobs. You might have seen this less-than-sanitary but always fun HotchPotch toy as doorknob option from AT Boston o...

Win this Easyshare M820 Digital Frame from Kodak!
Holiday Giveaway 2008

To Main Giveaway Page Name: Easyshare M820 Digital Frame Maker: Kodak Value: $169.95 Today in our Holiday Giveaway we're pleased to present this Easyshare M820 Multimedia Digital Frame from Kodak....

DIY Awesome Xmas Lights With Stuff From a Frat House

The massively popular strands of Christmas lights you see everywhere this time of year, whether LED or not, are not so unique or special on their own. You can go out and buy some lights with more char...

Virtual Yule Log: Holiday Spirit on Your iPhone

Many of us don't have the luxury of living in homes that provide a fireplace for the family to gather around and keep warm - or even a living room stereo to play Frank Sinatra on. Luckily, for $1.99, ...

How To: Turn Cheap Salad Bowls Into Good Looking Speakers

Not interested in the standard speaker box? Don't think that a black or silver square with a piece of fabric in front of it will ever be able to fit in with you danish teak or rosewood furinture? Then...

Roundup: Six Ways To Store Your CDs

While some of you may have digitized your music and put your CDs in storage, or even sold them to your local used music shop, some of us still have those shiny discs and their jewel cases laying arou...

Microsoft Tries Their Hand at T-Shirt Graphics

Apparently trying to recapture an era and "tap the nostalgia of when PCs were just starting to change our lives," Microsoft is launching a clothing line. Yes, you read that right. The line, called Sof...

Final Frame: A BeTaMaXmas

Revisit the 80's holiday TV Shows, complete with analog remote, slightly snowy-receiption and rabbit ears!...

Zero Concept Phone: A Mix Between an OLED Screen and a Phone

We always enjoy new striking phone designs. It's thanks to these concepts that the actual technology and designs evolve. What would a holographic display screen on a phone look like? Would there just ...

12,000 Internet Radio Stations to Choose From? The Tivoli NetWorks Radio

We've always been fond of the the Tivoli selection of radios. They've always maintained a conservative but stylish presence, partnered with a reputation for warm sound that exceeds expectations upon f...

BRΙΕFC(eramic)ACE: Ceramic Meets An Unexpected Purpose

While we're witnessing tons of innovation in the business digital era - from paper to paperless, personal computers to "cloud computing," and cell phones to built-in everything devices - the briefcase...

DIY iStand: Using Binder Clips To Make An iPhone Stand

When you are on the go and need a place to dock your iPhone, you usually don't have a lot of choice. The best thing would be to carry around a dock, but that's not always feasible. How about making yo...

Hollywood & Dolce Vita Media Stands
Adjustable & Asymmetrical Flat-Screen TV Stands

We've looked at the idea of using Easels as TV stands and rounded-up a variety of High and Low-end Media Stands — this stainless steel, asymmetrical TV stand from Cattelan Italia is height adjus...

Look! Clocks Made From Old, Recycled Tech

Making something new from something old is getting, well, old. Not like the idea of recycling is tired—but just that we're not so impressed by the creativity of it all as we once were. But that ...

Re(al)view: Acer Aspire One Netbook
A Perfect Affordable Sidekick

It's funny that just a short time after reviewing the mammoth 18.4" Sony Vaio laptop we find ourselves working on the diminutive flipside of laptop computing, the Acer Aspire One. The ultra-portable a...

Baby Boomer Home Appliance Design

Good Quote: "When you've got designers that are 25 or 30 years old, it's very hard for them to understand what someone in their 60s or 70s experiences." It was bound to happen. After the deluge of re...

Win this FreeAgent XTreme from Seagate!
Holiday Giveaway 2008

To Main Giveaway Page Name: FreeAgent XTreme Maker: Seagate Value: $209.99 Today in our Holiday Giveaway we're pleased to present this FreeAgent XTreme from Seagate. Store and safeguard all your ...

Nintendo Keyless Entry System

This is not another useful hack of the Wii (like our post on How To: Wii-mote Control Your Curtains), but it's close. This hack from Instructables user action_owl takes advantage of a CD-Rom drive and...

Look! Apple Apple Pie

Too bad we didn't see this during The Kitchn's Best Pie Bakeoff; it would have been a hands-down winner. It's an Apple apple pie! ...

Pano Zero Client: I'm A PC, A Tiny PC

Someday, this whole operating system fan war will end and you may not even require an operating system at all to run the things you need. This idea is called "cloud computing" and Google's doing all i...

Look! Daniel Rozin's Webcam Wooden Mirror

Created by artist Daniel Rozin, the Wooden Mirror combines 830 square pieces of wood, 830 servo motors, control electronics, video camera, computer, and a wood frame to make one unique video display ...

Re(al)view: nuTsie, the Pandora for Blackberry

A few weeks ago we were getting ready for our bike ride home from one of our gigs. One of the things that makes it easier for us to bike through the cold and up a major hill in Prospect Park in Brook...

Ambient Pool Lighting: Uses No Power, No Need to Install

We're going to go out on a limb and say that most AT readers don't have private pools. But if you're lucky enough to be in a warm climate, own your place, have a house with a yard and happen to have a...

The Minute Glass: A Green Alarm Clock

We all have had problems walking up in the morning, and that snooze button isn't always a good idea. The few extra minutes that we get thanks to snoozing aren't really restful. Alarms and clocks do co...

Tips for Shopping Online During the Holidays

Here's an excellent list of tips for shopping online for both tech and furnishing items, posted over by SarahC at AT Chicago that might ease some of the pressures of shopping as the big day nears: Fo...

The Green Cell Phone: A Cow Could Eat It

It's true that we change phones way too often. We're always after the newest gadget, the latest functions, and the hottest phone. Somehow, somewhere, something dies for each new cell phone that we buy...

PC World: Sony HDTV's Voted Most Reliable, Mitsubishi Fails Miserably

We've had more than one of our readers send is horror stories about bad HDTV experiences - malfunctions ranging from fading color to cheap remotes, bad picture and sets completely failing after a year...

Wake Up to Smells That Aren't From Your Roommate

This Peaceful Progression Wake Up Clock uses that gradual lighting technique to wake you slowly and without "WTF is that noise? Is it morning already!?" moments. There's also a scent, which is release...

Black & Decker's Power Monitor

Hmmm, we're intrigued by this Black and Decker product as an affordable energy audit solution. The EM100B Power Monitor is a real-time energy consumption monitoring device that operates via wireless s...

Win this Geneva Sound System from Zwello!
Holiday Giveaway 2008

To Main Giveaway Page Name: Geneva Sound Medium All-In-One Mini HiFi Maker: Zwello Value: $799 Today in our Holiday Giveaway we're pleased to present this Geneva Sound Medium All-in-One Mini HiFi ...

Using Google to Manage Out-Of-Control Holiday Mailings for Free

It's an awesome treat to get a Christmas card in the mail from somebody long-forgotten in your life, like a childhood friend or a distant cousin's cousin. But on the other end of that, you know Suzy (...

Flickr Finds: Marc's Mix of His Favorite Things

High end speakers aren't for everyone, but it's hard to ignore the aesthetic impact it has on a would-be run-the-mill desk space. The Audioengine 5 monitors are what shines in this space (along with h...

Snapshots from Gizmodo's Gadget Exhibition

Friday night Gizmodo hosted an opening party for their gadget gallery in New York City. We took a look, camera in hand, at what the world of consumer electronics had once offered and will soon offer....

Get Your SASE Ready For Some Free Gmail Stickers

Time to find an envelope and buy some stamps (since you don't have any on hand because you're banking online), because Google is giving away free stuff! You're just a self-addressed, stamped envelope...

Hot Posts 12.07.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

We hope you all are having a great weekend. We went and checked out the Gizmodo Gallery, a gadget exhibition hosted by the mega gadget blog. We'll have more on that tomorrow. This week our most popul...

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