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Phonofone II: An Old School Way to Listen to Tunes
Sure, iPhone and iPod docks are a dime a dozen. But what about retro docks? Actually, this is the first time that I heard about this concept, even though we posted an image of this a year and a half a...
Add Anything From Any Website to Your Amazon Wish Lists
Do you find a lot of items on various websites you browse over the course of the day that you want to keep saved away for a later time to hunt down, purchase, comparison shop or just put together for ...
Identita: A Perfect Home Theater Seating Solution
Getting the right furniture for your home theater room isn't always easy. There are a lot of choices out there, but not all of them are good. Usually, seating in a home theater amounts to getting some...
Jimmy Schönning's Stylish Living Room
Surely you've enjoyed the great glimpses inside Mr. Gizmodo's abode and Miss Design Milk's operation featured all this week. To end it strong, we've decided to take you inside stylist Jimmy Schönning...
Aptera Alive!: Interview With Designer Jason Hill
Unplggd recently sat down for some Japanese food with Jason Hill, Principal of Eleven, LLC and Designer of the revolutionary Aptera electric and plug-in hybrid/electric vehicle coming out this year. ...
Kitchen-Ready Radio Likes it Wet and Greasy
I don't know who else out there is like me, but I keep an iPod dock in my bathroom. I love to blast music while I'm getting ready in the morning. It's been pretty convenient for the most part—th...
Survey: Will the Kindle Replace the Book Shelf?
Earlier this week Jon Stewart (yes, we are a little obsessed) invited Amazon's Jeff Bezos on the show to talk about the new Kindle e-reader. In between the loud and jovial laughter by Jeff, Jon broug...
Exploding Gadgets Remind Us To Check Our Models
Yikes! What a disaster! This Mac PowerBook exploded recently in a London marketing office, apparently filling this tiny cubicle with smoke and sparks. There's still no word on whether or not the lapto...
Toshiba: Luminous OLED Wallpaper On The Way?
It looks like the future of home tech and entertainment might just come to light (pun intended) sooner than we expected. Toshiba, along with GE (General Electric) and Sony, have all been hard at work ...
Gaming Nostalgia: Miniature Sega Arcade Machines
What do you think? Vitra miniatures for the unplggd set? While a fan of the actual chairs, personally I never understood the appeal of miniature versions. Especially functional items like mini Alessi...
Roundup: Ten Best Looking Elfa Solutions
Man, remember when the Container Store's Elfa storage system was for just that -- storing. It was for maximizing closet space and for all intents and purposes, to stay hidden in a closet. These days ...
Twitter Coming Soon To Your Coffee Table
No, not like this.
Twitter's popularity has been skyrocketing recently. With your sister and your nephew and your mom all getting online and tweeting, you had to imagine that the micro blogging phenom...
Look! New February Jumpstart Projects
Submissions are closed, but take a gander at all these amazing small projects completed recently and submitted this month! All info for Do it Now! our Small Project Contest is here.
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Final Frame: Japanese Felt iPod Speakers
No, you're not the only one scratching their heads about this Japanese iPod accessory. Apparently they're tiny felt figure speakers. A little bit weird, a little bit cool....
Titanium Iphone Concept: Just Like a MacBook Pro
If you think about it, you can imagine that the iPhone is very MacBook-like for the moment. Does that mean that Apple will expand these product lines to include Nano and Pro models? To us, this would ...
Meet Your February Jumpstart Judge: Ami Kealoha
When we announce the winners of the February Jumpstart Project next Monday, there will be a winner in each category chosen by your reader votes. But we've also asked honorary judges to award a Judge's...
Re(al)view: Insignia NS-CNV20 4.3" GPS
click for more picsWe've been testing our first portable GPS unit for the last two months, using it on interstate trips and also day-to-day commutes, mostly getting to our destinations faster and...
Hackintosh Jr. Casemod: Cute Enough For Kids
Have you ever wanted a mini-sized Mac? Well this might be the Mac for you. Actually, this isn't really a Mac, just a really nifty casemod. Modder Widefault decided not to wait for Mac to created or re...
DIY: Turn Empty Tin Cans Into Hanging Lights
Here's a fun DIY project you can take on if you haven't already started your own for our Jumpstart month. For the record, the thousand dollar prize is still up for grabs until the end of the month, so...
What Do You Do When Coffee Meets Computer Keyboard?
An article on MakeUseOf.com by Jackson Chung details his experience with spilling an entire cup of coffee on his MacBook. Sounds like bad news, right? But there was some good news, too: He got it back...
Philips Digital Media Event 2009 Review:
Days of Hairstyling, Wireless Audio and Erotic Devices
click for more picsApartment Therapy/Unplggd was recently invited by home electronics and lifestyle company, Philips, to attend their annual Philips Digital Media Event. Normally limited to the E...
TwistTogether Lamp and Shelves
The TwistTogether Lamp has been upgraded to now be a bit more utilitarian. Using the same patented connection system as the lamp, this new product incorporates two aluminum shelves, plus a mini shelf...
Do You Match Your Desktop to Your Decor?
Being a fan of Unplggd, we know that you have a thing for cool new technology and gorgeous aesthetics. You, like all of us, like to bring things into your space that fit your personality and make thos...
Roundup: Stylish USB Card Readers
While we're still waiting for wireless card memory to take off completely, it doesn't hurt to have an attractive card reader available for use when you need to read some data off the standard flash me...
Look! Sliding House Means More Natural Light
Sliding doors are used everywhere. Pocket doors in the kitchen, glass doors out to the patio, even doors that can hide clutter in your desktop. What we have never seen before though is a sliding house...
The "Google Me" Business Card
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like business cards don't need to get that much play anymore. I think we only keep using them because we have so many sitting in our desks and no reason to use them, oth...
How To: Create a Home Office Wall-sized Corkboard
Sejal's February Jumpstart Project 2009
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Title: Create a Home Office Wall-sized Corkboard
Name: Sejal
Time: 6 hours
Cost: 135.00
Sejal explains her project: "I wanted to make a wall-sized corkb...
Studio FRST's HDTV: Sculpture or Technology?
Most HDTVs look the same: black and big. There isn't much distinction between models. I've always thought that the best way to hide a HDTV is to masquerade it as a picture frame. Well, Studio FRST had...
SheevaPlug: The Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Computer
Computers are rapidly diminishing in size, but if you would have shown me this computer, I would have assumed that it's a power adapter. I would have been wrong, because it's a tiny computer masquerad...
Behind the Blog: Design Milk
This week we shine the Unplggd energy efficient light onto one of our fellow online design-decor colleagues over at the good taste fortified blog, Design Milk. Jaime, the founder and writer at Design...
Flickr Finds: Sexy Swag Legs In The Wild
Using a blue and gray palette, Eric Grajo makes the beautiful Herman Miller Nelson Swag Leg desk truly "pop" with vibrancy around a would-be dull monochromatic modern home office theme. A closer look ...
Hump Day Treat: Cell Phone or Chewing Gum?
So it's Wednesday. It's not the slummy nose-to-the-grindstone beginning of the week, but it's not yet the weekend. It's the perfect day to take a little break and play a silly game like "Are these nam...
Look! Boom Box Graduates to Higher Living
For us, boom boxes tend to represent youth. More specifically, they represent a time when function (and cost) is much more important than form. They tend to be found in dorm rooms, or fresh out of co...
Hole-In-Stomach Halloween Costume Gets Tech Assist
So its a little early for Halloween, but when a costume this clever can be constructed with just a little tech know-how, we'd be fools not to pass it along. Flickr user evanbooth appears to have been ...
In Case You Missed It: Peter's Light Loft Living
Similar to Edward's small but tall home office setup, where he used the Elfa shelving system to complement his minimal and clean work style, Peter's home office featured in the house tour at AT:SF yes...
Roundup: Folding Tech
Compact living usually involves constantly moving and storing things to suit the space. This means folding beds, folding chairs and even folding dinner tables. So it would only make sense that we ha...
Look! Internet Meme Sticks It to the Real World
Last year the New York Times included "fail" in its Buzzwords of '08 declaration. Now the online verb-turned-noun has been turned into a sticker so you can plaster it on anything in your realtime wor...
Improving Your Celly's Battery Life in Five Easy Steps
We spotted this list from UK tech blog Tech Digest and think it contains some useful tips for making sure your Blackberry doesn't quit on you right before that important phone interview for the job yo...
How To: Add Vertical Office Space Using Cheap Room Dividers
Ailene's February Jumpstart Project 2009
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Title: How to add vertical office space using cheap room dividers
Name: Aileen
Time: 4 hours, including a walk to the bakery with my daughter and cooking...
T3's 01 Phone: Perfect or Just Another Smartphone?
Smartphones are a dime a dozen. Unless you have an iPhone or a Crackberry, you are still looking for that oh so elusive perfect phone. There are always things that you'd like your perfect phone to do ...
How To: Make Ear Bud Storage With a Contact Lens Case
This is admittedly a pretty budget looking solution. But as both a contact lens wearer (-5.50 baby!) and someone who loses their earphone buds every 6 or so months, we're partial to this simple DIY cr...
LG Makes a Transparent Cell Phone
Watch out, LG is making some cool and slick design decisions. That being said, it's been a long time coming that manufacturers would come out with transparent parts for your cell phone. Thankfully, th...
Roundup: 25 Really Cool USB Drives
Design inspiration blog Adbuzeedo recently threw together a sweet lookin' roundup of cool USB drives that we just couldn't pass up. Some of them are drives you've seen here at Unplggd, but many others...
Electrolux Sunny Solar Heated Washing Machine
Yet one more product that isn't available in the United States...but certainly should be. Electrolux's Sunny front loading washing machine would certainly a perfect fit for residents in our home city ...
"I'm Not a Clock" FM Radio is Telling the Truth
Yeah, yeah... If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably a duck. But even though this gadget quacks like a clock, it's not a clock. In fact, "I'm Not a Clock" is its name. It's a rad...
Look! Industrial Metal Table Has Second Life as Media Console
As we've seen, there are many ways to watch TV. Buying a bonafide TV console isn't your only option. Rather, you can turn almost anything -- sideboard, public school desk, or in this case, a steel ta...
Rubik's Cube Salt and Pepper Mills
Here we have another entry in the realm of geek-inspired home accessories. Following in the footsteps of the "actually-it's-kind-of-cute" Rubik's Cube Subwoofer, these salt and pepper mills are bound ...
UNIQLOCK: Idiosyncracy Meets Japan In This Clever Clock Screensaver
It's been a while since we've added a new pick in our ultimate collection of sweet screensaver finds. We stumbled upon this screensaver as we were going through a few of our international blogs, only ...
Survey: Would You Watch Cable TV Via the Net
Ok. We all know that hulu.com and iTunes are super popular ways to get your TV fix via the Web, but would you continue (or start) subscribing to cable if it meant you could get the shows you want via...
The "G-Fail" Resonates through Twitter, the Whole World
We hope you didn't have a late-night project to finish up. Most of us here in the US were asleep, but starting around 9:20 am GMT (4:20 am EST or 1:20 am PST), G-Mail and most of the Google network wa...
Look! Great Clean Workstation!
Workstations are where people spend most of their time nowadays. It's important that they look good and make you feel comfortable. There's nothing worse than a cluttered and dreary workspace. That bei...
Look! The 1983 Iphone! Design Ahead of its Time
If you thought that the iPhone concept was something really recent, you're going to be really surprised! You'd think that the concept was pretty recent, since the original iPhone came out in 2007. How...
Philips: Cinema 21:9 HDTV Gets A Price, Release Date
Surely you've been clamoring as much as we were about the missing details of Philip's newest Cinema 21:9 HDTV announced a few weeks back. Though we gave it our best shot and tried to do a mock-up (you...
Re(al)view: Philips Wake-Up Light
For most of us, waking up each morning is a process of being jabbed back into consciousness via the blare of music or the annoying beep of an alarm clock. But what if you could ease from the unconscio...
Look! Afternoon Tea with a Modern Twist
We love us some cheeky designs, especially when it comes at tech's expense. Above is the Tea V, a mug and saucer that reveals the etching of a television with a woman drinking tea on it at the square...
Dial4Light: Energy Saving Gone Too Far?
At the risk of sounding like Martha, we'll say this: Going green is generally touted as a good thing. Turning off lights when you leave a room or setting your thermostat to a cooler setting while you'...
In Case You Missed It: Steve's Australian Mancave
Last Friday, Steve the "reclusive failed novelist," wow'ed us with a surprisingly hip and unusual space converted from an old warehouse. Features included a wonderfully implemented home theater system...
Motorized TV Mount Angles Primetime Just So
Flat screen TVs have really opened up the possibilities of where you can have your boob tube. In the past, there were limited locations you could fit a thick CRT, but the mere inches of depth a flat ...
The Couch Home Office: Folding Birch Laptop Tray
In a small space, folding furniture provides the ultimate flexibility, particularly for those of us that call our couch the office. For short sessions, a computer in the lap is fine, or some sort of p...
One Penny Post: A Virtual Postcard with a Real-Life Result
Isn't the internet amazing? I woke up this morning, picked out a picture of me and a friend from Facebook, typed a quick "I miss you" message, turned it into a postcard and mailed it to her in England...
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