Final Frame: It's Your Move
A 1968 chess set made from various disassembled parts from a lamp...428 parts in all!...
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Customize Your New iPod in Different Ways
iPods are great music players. Personally, I have trouble with iTunes, but maybe that's because I don't have a Mac yet. Still, after about 8 years and only two different iPods in all of that time, one...
How To... Make a Cell Phone Caddy
Perhaps you charge your cell phone at your landing strip, or you might have it next to your bed, like us. Either way, the charger wire is usually in plain sight. If you hate the eyesore, here's an eas...
The Amcor: The Iconic Fridge Chair
Finding the right chair isn't always easy. You've got a lot of different choices, and sometimes it's not obvious which one would suit you best. First of all, you need something comfortable. Then you n...
Re(al)view: Dayton DTA-1 T-Amp
Ok- We have finally done it. It has received rave reviews all over the world for being one of the highest values in audio. It had gone out of production in favor of a higher quality package which, of...
Inspiration: Sesame Streets' Bert-Inspired Home Tech
Sesame Street comes as a strange place to find ideas for your home, but strangely enough, blogger Sims found Bert as his main source of inspiration to model his home into an optimal space designed to ...
MIO Solar Lights at Target
Aaron over at AT New York posted about Target's new line of eco-conscious, sustainable designs for Target, and we noted that one of the products is a nicely designed solar lawn light which seems to bu...
Good Question: How to Protect a Laptop in the Kitchen?
Here's a tech related post that was originally fielded over at our sister home cooking site, The Kitchn, that tackles the issue of cooking with a laptop as a recipe source:
With so many of us taking ...
Explore the BlackBerry App World on April 1st
No mater what you need to do—from extending your laptop keyboard with a numeric keypad to comparing prices while you're out shopping ...say it with us: There's an app for that! The iPhone has go...
Headphones Inspired by Favorite Songs
Music inspires design. Design inspires music. It's a never ending cycle of sometimes oddball muses that keeps things in both industries fresh and innovative. But is this taking it a little too far int...
Survey: Is Bigger Always Better?
We're Talking Desks Here, People.
While some of us can't live without an extra-large surface to do our work, others find having such humongous work areas to be nothing but a dust magnet that encourages crap to easily accumulate over a...
How To: Fix That Broken Gadget Yourself
click for more picsI am all about the DIY. In fact, between hours spent watching home improvement TV and looking up home renovation how to's online, it almost fells like I could build a house fro...
Roundup: A Merit System Every Geek Can Love
Pins, badges, and medals to celebrate all things nerd.
We were never in the Girl Scouts, but we always wanted to be. Aside from those delicious Samoas, we loved that amazing logo, cute uniforms, and rad merit badges. We looked through the merit badges th...
Final Frame: The Struktable
Struktable Multitouch Installation from Gregor Hofbauer on Vimeo.
The Struktable concept makes us imagine utilizing larger multi-touch displays for home organization/layout uses in the home or via a r...
Daft Punk Headphones: Pretend You're a Robot
I know that I have to wear in-ear headphones when I walk around the city. Having bigger-sized headphones isn't really practical. Try wearing a hat of some sort and see how well those big headphones wo...
eLite: The Easy Energy Monitor That Will Save You Money
Times are tough, pretty much everywhere. The recession is hitting most businesses hard. That means that energy monitors that will save you money are getting that much more interesting. Why waste money...
Tsigos Brings the Mungle Desk, Star Wars Influence
If Darth Vader were to own a desk, we imagine it would look something along the lines of the Mungle Office Desk by Greek designer Dimitrios Tsigos. Perhaps it's the proliferation of the geometrical sh...
Bookshelf By Day, Wicked Projection Theater By Night
Pottery Barn, PB Teen and their endless ability to work tech-friendly solutions into their classicly stylish and versatile furniture is the stuff that Unplggd dreams are made of. It's not rare to see ...
Our Commenting Policy 2009
Dear Readers, Lurkers & Commenters,
We've had unfiltered (and amazing) comments since we launched in 2004. Yes, every now and then we’ve had to do a little policing, but not much, and I’ve felt t...
Look! Doctor's Quarters Turned Home Office
You may have noticed that a few of us at Unplggd love medical drama in our home décor. From x-ray lamp to desks made from morgue gurneys and old radiograph light boxes.
Here we find an old examini...
Look! DIY Speakers Hidden in Real Books!
There's something a little puzzling about this messy and less-than-chic bookshelf—and it's not "Why in the world does this person own and display a lava lamp?" No, the head-scratcher is "Where t...
Inspiration: Home Offices of De Leon & Primmer Achitecture Workshop
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more picsThere are times when turning a house into a home office can be a bad thing, but that's certainly not the case with Roberto and Ross. They owns De Leon & Primmer Achitecture Wor...
Blast from the Past: What Was Your First Computer?
I didn’t get a computer until I was midway through high school – that was 1994. It was a hand me down from a family friend, a Macintosh SE/30. While I don’t remember the specs, I do remember it...
Camouflaged Cables
If you can't beat 'em, join em. With wireless power nowhere to be seen, we are not left with many power cord options. Try your best to hide them or learn to deal with seeing them snake around your des...
A Cool DIY Way to store Your Keyboard Off Your Desk
If you're short on space and trying out some form of the zero-footprint wall-mounted office, or if you've got one monitor working double duty as both TV and computer for a little extra calmness in the...
Final Frame: The Celebrator 2000-X
Happy birthday...to anyone out there who happens to call today their birthday. We hope you had a robot in a tuxedo to celebrate. [via]...
Look! The Incredible DIY Touchpad
When I first saw this, I had to stop and make sure that I was reading it correctly. Apparently some whiz from Russia put together his own custom touchpad. That's pretty amazing. I think that it's real...
Crabble: Wallet Sized iPhone Stand
...and Some Near No-Cost DIY Options
For those of you who need to prop up your iPhone for occasional hands-off viewing, the Crabble might be an affordable solution while traveling, thanks to its non-slip silicone rubber claws. But then ...
Cordless Stick Vacuums Recalled by Electrolux
Posted this earlier over at Apartment Therapy LA, but thought it would be worth repeating over here at Unplggd. Some of you may remember our hands-on review of the Electrolux Ergorapido 2-in-1 Sweeper...
Cube Speakers: Portable, Functional and Wireless
I've always thought that bigger speakers aren't always better. Sure you can spend tens of thousands of dollars and more on speaker systems, but in the end, they all do the same thing. They reproduce s...
Look! Josh's Media Sactuary, Corner Solution
Have an annoying corner space that you can't seem to find a remedy for no matter how hard you try? Or, perhaps you're like us who can't seem to get rid of that office-like feeling whenever you see an ...
Kimmy's DIY Hideaway Charging Station
Kimmy found a favourite electronics device charging station from Pottery Barn, the Smart Technology Recharge Station with Whiteboard. It's a handsome solution that hides away your tech while not in us...
Reconfigurable Pixel Table
We love great modifications that can take your old furniture to new spaces, like making a standing desk out of an old coffee table from Ikea. But what if, in your next move, you find yourself needing ...
Laser-Based Sundial for your Apartment Wall
I've figured out I kinda have a thing for analog clocks. They're functional, you know telling the time and all, an can be very beautiful when you're big on the typography of numbers. That's why I love...
Look! The Offices of Visionaire Publishing
Is it just us or are we starting to go backwards in time? With yet another company maximizing their spaces by going the big desk, cubicle-free route as seen in the 1950s offices, we're starting to won...
Before & After: French Canadian Home Office Beautification
Maryse Coziol works from home as a project manager for a publishing house. Her goal is to become a young adult novelist, so her work space needs to inspire. Her main issue with her original home offi...
Med School Student Scans Gadgets with a CT Scanner
Yeah, a third-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College would normally use a CT scanner to create images of brains and knees, looking for blood clots or fractures. But not when the med sch...
Final Frame: The Silent Farter and Constant Shaker
Haha, had to share these two chair concepts from designer Alice Wong's collection, aptly titled CHAIRS FOR THE DYSFUNCTIONAL. Our favourites are the two above that utilize a little bit of tech to keep...
The Corrugated Cardboard Laptop Case: DIY or $$$?
When I first saw this laptop case, I was pretty impressed. The simplicity of creating a case out of cardboard appealed to me. Plus, it was made out of recycled cardboard, which was even better. You pr...
3.5" Floppy Disk Into Record Player Greeting Card Project
We're afraid to ask if some of you still remember 3.5" floppy disks. But if you happen to have a few of the archeological technology remnants still around, wasting away to oblivion, how about this coo...
Mac Mini Friends: Mini-Sized Devices For Your Mac
Wouldn't it be perfect to be able to match that new Mac Mini with a bunch of friendly-looking devices, that are just about the same size? You could stack them and rack'em without any problems. They'd ...
DIY Project: Create A Standing Desk From An Old IKEA Coffee Table
If you have an old coffee table lying around, and happen to be in need of a new floor standing desk, take Sean's shining example and convert it into a snazzy living room workspace. By replacing the le...
Kitchn Tech: What Do I Do With a Dehydrator?
Being fond of gadgets of all sorts, we've always been curious about the idea of owning a food dehydrator (beef jerky!). But having one and knowing what to do with one are two different stories, as not...
Storing Your Multimedia Collection...in the Kitchen?
What to do when you've got a vast collection of DVDs, books, CD, cassettes, but aren't much of a cook? Flickr user jm3 reorganized his kitchen to be an extension of his media storage solution, amusing...
Cords are No Longer a Thing to Hide
We spend most of our time here at Unplggd trying to help you hide the unsightly cords that tangle and dangle behind your desks and media centers. Check out posts like the one about the DIY pegboard un...
Cassette Tape and Film Reel Celebrity Portraits
We can't decide what we love more about this collection of art featured on Flickr by user iri5: the fact that these are brilliant portraits of celebrities crafted entirely out of lines of tape and fil...
The Periodic Table of Controllers
For All You Gaming PhDs
Gamers, we understand your pain. We know the how hard it is when you're trying to explain how many buttons are in the original Atari Jaguar controller circa 1993, but no one really seems to care or ac...
In Case You Missed It: Solar Lighting at Ikea
While the Ikea Summer 2009 sneak peek at AT LA had us lusting over the Arholma outdoor sectional, what we didn't, and should have taken a closer look at, was the solar lighting selection. We are yet t...
Lifehacker's Workplace Spring Cleaning
The world must be super concerned about identity security, because the folks at Lifehacker.com are bribing their readers with a paper shredder to take before and after pictures as they clean up their ...
Whirlpool Max Collection Microwaves Do Their Best Impersonation of a TV
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For a moment there we thought Whirlpool was expanding their scope of products out to televisions when we took a quick look at their European Max Collection of microwaves. Obvi...
The Versatile Bamboo Light System Bringing A Bit of the Orient Home
Lighting is often overlooked, but an integral part of any space. The wrong lights just make some places look bad. Usually, a few well placed lights can make all of the difference. That's why we think ...
Good Questions: Best Affordable Skype Headset?
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"Dear Unplggd, my boyfriend and I are looking to save a few dollars here and there, and one of the most obvious places we can cut corners is to drop our landline and move over to a VOIP solution. Our ...
The Great Bookmark Lamp: Reading Discreetly
There are always situations in which reading is a problem due to the light. Sometimes, like when you are on the go, or on a plane, you don't always have enough light to read. Or you're trying to read ...
MyKeyO: Keyboard Turned Portable Briefcase?
MyKeyO's Keyboard Organizer well err.. the name sort of explains itself. But really, this is design brilliance at its core. Or, an even better way to put it would be, "Good design is all about making ...
Try Not to Lose this iPod Thumb Tack Microphone
You know those commercials that show an old lady in an endless mall parking lot who's life could be made so much simpler if only she had one of those keychain gadgets that let you leave yourself voice...
Look! Antoine's Living Room Lines
AT reader, Antoine Di Muro recently repainted his living room in a stylish series of stipes that wrap around the room while also integrating the design with his home entertainment system. Looks great,...
Warning: When Changing Phone Plans, Beware of Extra Charges
Recently we ditched our VoIP plan with the plans of either using Skype or our cell phone for bidness calls. We thought we'd save hella money. Instead, we got our Verizon Wireless bill a few weeks ago...
Your Home Office Away From Home: That Laptop Is Mine
I have a friend who has never been to The Container Store. I know, crazy, right? I try to tell him that The Container Store is a magical place where you're surrounded by brilliant and beautiful storag...
Survey: Are DVDs Still Better Than Blu-rays?
After reading up on IGN's recent piece on the number of pluses the DVD format still had to offer, we became a bit convinced that perhaps Blu-ray had a remaining adversary to contend with - despite lea...
Check Out This Human Machine Interface: Dr. Ho's For Your Face
With Apple announcing updates to the iPhone OS what we have come to know as the human computer interface keeps evolving and getting better. But damn, we hope our relationship with technology doesn't ...
Waveform Bracelets are Lovingly Engraved with Sound
When the rest of the world wants to buy their significant other jewelry, they engrave a loving message to the underside. Usually something like, "You make my heart sing, Pookie Bear." Barf. When audio...
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