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Tech Tour: Marcos' Minimalism and Movies
Xalapa
Name: Marcos Quirarte
Location: Xalapa, Veracruz
Size: I don't really know, about 5x12 metres
Years lived in: 6 months
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What to do when you've got a large space but lack windows? H...
Tiny LEGO USB Flash Drives: Nano Scaled
We know you love them as much as we do: LEGO USB flash drives. The trouble is that you can't get a real one yet, so you have to made do with DIY ideas or buy them custom made. Nowadays, USB flash driv...
PacMan's Favourite iPod Docking Station
The team over at Ohdeedoh posted about the iPig iPod docking sound system earlier this week. We're personally not partial to the porcine design, but our 80's arcade playing inner child is liking the ...
Re(al)vew: Wiremold Surface Raceways
We've always been a little bit skeptical of wire raceways or "molding management," as some like to call it. Why bother, when you can just shove the wires behind the floorboards and call it a day? Well...
Look! High Tech Haifa Apartment
Details are scant about this stunning monotone apartment in Haifa, Israel posted by the folks over at Blue Ant Studio. What struck us most about these photos was the home office with the huge power co...
The Wooden Iphone Case: Looks Good, But Is It Useful?
Wood is a material that we really like here at Unplggd. It's sustainable and nice to the touch. It's green and there is something about technological items made out of wood that is really appealing. N...
Re(al)view: NuForce NE-8 Earbuds
Do you want to talk more about headphones? Sure, we all do.
Headphones make it possible to play music wherever you are so you don’t have to interact with other inferior beings- at least not on th...
Vornado Flippi Personal Circulators Keep Your Gear (and Head) Cool
LA folks will nod in agreement that summer is just around the corner (we just endured a bout of unexpected near triple digit temps) and that means your computer and other home tech equipment can be da...
Underbody Lights For Your Furniture
click for more picsBringing the style of street racing to your living room, LIT Urban Underglow lights are interactive, remote-controlled mood lights that make your furniture glow from underneath...
Close-Up: Working from the Road
Part Four -- The Final Chapter
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In our final installment we meet up the the Janssen's again. You may remember them from our previous look at their home office on the road as well as their previous entry int...
How to... Customize Your Own Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
The always-on-the-run laptop faithful swear by keyboard shortcuts to keep the ball rolling—and keep their fingertips from scrolling the mousepad. But whether you're a dedicated and experienced l...
Good Questions: NAS? WHS? RAID? What's the Best Option for Expandable Storage?
Hey Unplggd,
Over the years as a media-holic, I've accumulated tons of media onto my computer. Up till now I was thinking of simply adding drives to my main PC to keep costs down. I could be persuade...
Strange Thought: Twitter as a Cookbook?
Guess what this is a recipe for:
cvr3tom/s+p/3T wine@low7m; puree. Slice/oil2eggplant; 15m@400F/205C. Dip w egg/crumb&s+p. Broil+c parm. Srv on puree.
What about this one?
brwn t cumin&coriander/garli...
Because it Sucks to be John.Smith_091279@gmail.com
With our online personas seriously affecting our lives in the matters of friendships, careers and even our entire identity, its easy to see how getting the right username can be a big deal. Daniel Sun...
Soy Based Laser Printer Toner Cartridges Print Green (Actually, Just Black)
We drink soy milk, eat soy-based foods, there are soy based paints and even insulation derived from the popular legume. Soy-derived inks also have become pretty common in the printing world, advertise...
Unique Iphone Sock: The Perfect One of a Kind Sock
If you are like me, you probably stuff you iPod or iPhone in your pocket without thinking too much about it. Sure, I've got a latex cover case on it, but that doesn't help much. It would be better in ...
How To: Secure Your Home Network
With broadband access now nearly as common as cable subscriptions, DVRs and other tech services that many of use on a daily basis, home networking has moved forward from an "expert install" into a mos...
Look! Gesture Capturing Furniture Prototyping
Fascinating look at Swedish group FRONT Design prototyping furniture using gesture capturing 3D software that converts the virtual motion into Sketch Furniture.
[via The Digital Ramble | Furniture D...
The About Time Clock: Moves Around to Tell You the Time
Have you ever thought that your life was a bit too planned out? In our modern connected lives, it's hard not to be around a clock of some fashion, from the one on your wrist, to the one on your cellph...
Speaker Calibration: iPhone Theater Tool App
If you're not one of the lucky few who have purchased an A/V receiver within the past 2-3 years that came included with speaker calibration tools, you may want to check out this nifty little app devel...
Wrong Side of the Format War? Go Red2Blu
Be honest, did you go out and stock up all your favorite movies in HD DVD because they were gonna be the next big thing? Plenty of people dove into high-def and then one day (March 28, 2008 to be exac...
Inspiration: Jessilyn's Before and After Office Space
We love office transformations--especially when there's organization involved. Jessilyn's office overhaul is a great example of how to think vertically with a little help from an IKEA piece to organi...
Close-Up: Working from the Road
Part Three
In part three of our series looking at couples who took their lives and work on the road, we hook up with Rich Luhr, the founder of Airstream Life magazine......
Flickr Finds: The Refined Way to Sticker Your Laptop
Did you see the post yesterday on whether or not you plaster your machine with stickers? Some of you said the style was right up your alley, but some thought that stickers make your laptop look messy....
Survey: To Messenger or To Not Messenger Bag?
Some of the peeps at our offices are lookin' for a new bag for their laptop and day-to-day stuffs. We hear messenger bags are in. Word on the street says they suck big time for the shoulders though. W...
Aimée Wilder Retro Tech Inspired Wallpaper
Aimée Wilder is a New York based designer that has collaborated with Vans on shoe design and Skip Hop for their line of bags and baby bedding. This being unplggd and all, what really caught our eye w...
Before iTunes, This is How Computers Could Play Music
We spotted this YouTube video from user bd594 embedded on Geekologie and instantly fell in love. You see, this guy has far too much time on his hands and has composed Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody using a...
Final Frame: A Place to Create
Creation by Oliver Valle. And if you're wondering, the screensaver is one amongst our favourites....
Zip Up Earphones: No More Messy Wires
We all have this problem. The wires of our earphones connected to our iPods or MP3 players always get all tangled up. There is no way to get around this, unless you take your earphones off and put the...
Everyday Uses for Magnets, Automatic Sushi Maker, WOW Pod...
Unplggd Slinks for 04.22.2009
17 cool magnet tricks: We particularly like the stud-finding trick and put your laptop to sleep idea (just keep away from your hard drive).
Auomtatic Sushi Roller: It's low-tech at it's tastiest.
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Datamancer's New Art Deco Keyboard: Is This the New Steampunk?
Datamancer is well-known for his funky Steampunk keyboards. They are painstakingly assembled and beautifully made. They are almost like art pieces. It's great to see that Datamancer has started to exp...
Wired Magazine Eye Candy
The bright colors and graphic elements of the spines of Wired magazines are put on display in this photo of the Wired conference room — it's a reminder that I miss my old magazines (I was quite ...
Thinking Beyond The Netbook: Is UMPC The Way To Go?
We recall not even a year ago, as netbooks started taking off, some PC companies started going after an even smaller market - ultraportable PCs. Computers that would literally fit into your pocket, br...
ChocoShuffle for the iPod Shuffle 3G
...and Chocoholics
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Apple's recently updated iPod Shuffle 3G has garnered mixed reviews upon release. But maybe Apple should trade-in its stick of gum looks for something more enticing. Because w...
Antique Books as a Slim LCD TV Stand?
I was browsing through the new issue of Glamour (it's what Conde Nast is sending me now that Domino is kaputz, plus following cover girl Miley Cyrus is a guilty pleasure), and spotted this interesting...
Diz Decor's "Electronic Chaos"
Sometimes you've got an outlet you just can't hide behind furniture, with it being centrally located and creating an eyesore (especially if you've got a surge protector or other cords plugged in). If ...
FIY (Find it Yourself) Cheap, Small-Space Standing Desk
One of the pains of getting older is a literal pain: Your body just can't hold up to some of the things you do anymore. Exhibit A: Sitting at a desk for most of the hours in the day can wreak havoc on...
Best Product: Belkin Micro Auto Charger for USB Devices
Tired of having your iPhone's terrible battery life come back and haunt you (we have proof here, here, and here)? Oh, but you don't want to buy yet another car charger specifically for your iPhone?
W...
Close-Up: Working from the Road
Part Two
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Yesterday we took a look at Josh and Jacque's solution to working on the road. In our second installment we meet web designers Nathan Swartz and Olivia Meiring, and their seve...
Fans by Itho: Retro Dutch Cool
We are fans of these fans! In general, we like fans as much for keeping us cool in the summer as we do looking at them as decorative accessories in the winter. Just check out Design Milk's fan and you...
It's Earth Day! 5 Tech Energy Facts to Help You Conserve
Earth Day, founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 as an environmental teach-in, is designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. But just because the day is all a...
Final Frame: What Your Lighting Does While You're Away
Art mannequin-style lamps by Daniel Loves Objects.
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Stickers On Your Laptop?
A lot of people try to customize their laptops in different ways. The reason is that they want to make their products unique. Sometimes this is well done and other times, it's a bit of an eyesore. The...
Hot or Not? Flat Panel TV Covers?
Hmm, we like the idea behind Melissa's Instructables for a Flat Screen TV Cover. She has a point about keeping a valuable large panel screen protected from dust and scratches (our cats occasionally li...
Green Idea: Carpet Laptop Bag When Cardboard Isn't Soft Enough
So, you've got your new laptop and you want to find the perfect storage solution. Something that will let you take your baby around town, without hampering your style. You've also decided not to buy a...
Idea to Steal: Wall Decals As Desk Adornment
click for more picsConor Keller had a great idea for taking a regular, bland computer desk and transforming it into something much more stylish with hardly an investment. The graphics appear to b...
The Gourd iPod Speaker
Proving you can make a speaker and/or iPod accessory nearly out of anything, this dried and hollow gourd speaker naturally has a modernist shape to it. You can even accessorize further with a separate...
Re(al)view: Powersquid Surge Protector Calamari Edition
This past weekend, we went ahead and got all calamari-ed out with a bunch of Powersquid Surge Protectors all of our entertainment system, networking, and desktop equipment. The end result? Well, let's...
This Sink Faucet Knows Your Face
In the house of the future, this gadget is the centerpiece of the washroom. The SmartFaucet does a lot for it's very techie—and most likely very rich—users, but the thing that makes it so ...
Roundup: Affordable Home Security Solutions
With the economy in the trash bin, crime of opportunity like burglaries are expected to increase. Although the well to do can afford elaborate home security systems, what are those with more modest in...
Close-Up: Working from the Road
Part One
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As many of you may already know, when I'm not blogging I occasionally write for more traditional fare – magazines. In the April issue of Wired I wrote a guide of sorts on ho...
Help Us Give 1% To The Planet: Vote For Your Favorite!
We're almost there! Apartment Therapy is giving away 1% of our 2008 profits to the nonprofit of your choice. You've given us your recommendations, and we've rounded up your Top 4 and added in 2 top ch...
Fall Back Made Easy With the Ora ilLegale Clock
Ora Legale is how Italian speakers refer to the useless-in-most-places Daylight Savings Time. Wherever there is electricity and alarm clocks, there is no need to change our schedules to maximize dayli...
How To: Avoid Buying Tech You Don't Need
We had lunch with a several IT managers yesterday. As project managers for new hardware refreshes every few years for their company, they have to constantly keep an eye on the amount of spending and o...
DIY: Custom Lighting from any Transluscent Container
It seems that there is no shortage of DIY lamp projects here at unplggd. You've got Bent Ply and Tripods. Ikea spare parts and a little home made shoji Zen. Now we can add some green to that list....i...
DIY Project Foldaway Home Editing Suite
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Tony Fasciano is a documentary filmmaker who works on two laptops and a desktop in his home editing office. The set-up makes it possible for Tony to multitask, "I can play mu...
1950's Facebook: The Electric Friendship Generator
Yeah, we lol'd. This mid-century vintage-styled video comes courtesy of relationship advice site YourTango to teach all of us good Facebook etiquette. Start watching, and you'll find out that Alice an...
Final Frame: The Perfect Balance of Decor and Tech
EdgeAtHome's wall-mounted Sony Bravia blends in seemlessly with the black decorative wallpaper partially thanks to the black painted cable hiding feature. We're not sure about the wall candle holder, ...
Tech Tour: Judith's Lux Pod System Upgrade
Unplggd
Name: The Lux Pod
Location: London, UK
Size: 101 square feet
Rent/Own: Own
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Some of you may remember Judith's small space studio apartment from last year's Small Space Contest. Th...
Get GPS Navigation On Your DS Lite: Never Get Lost Again
If you thought that GPS navigation was only for these GPS devices that you fit you in your car, you've got another thing coming. Nowadays, phones, watches, PSPs and other mobile devices have access to...
Behind the Blog: GeekSugar
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GeekSugar's tagline is "geek is chic," and the same could be said of their downtown San Francisco offices where the GeekSugar team puts together their daily content of tech an...
Roundup: Really Annoying Alarm Clocks
Do you need a new, really dramatic way to wake up in the morning? We've rounded up the most annoying alarm clocks we could find including the Bandai Gun O'Clock, with a target you have to shoot to s...
DIY Project: Make Your Own Designer Cardboard Laptop Case
A while ago, we featured a nice designer laptop case that was completely made out of recycled cardboard. What was really nice is the general look it had, plus it was made out of corrugated cardboard. ...
Behind the Blog: Jack Cheng
He makes us look. We've been avid readers of the inspiring blog of Jack Cheng, the guru of marketing creative process, art, and ideas, for quite some time. He's continued to write inspirational pieces...
The New Bored-In-The-Car Game: Guess the Gadget
I just got back home to Atlanta after a weekend road trip (24 hours in three days, whew!) to my hometown of Miami to be a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding. As soon as we hit South Florida, aka t...
Flickr Finds: Andrew's Collection Upon Collections
If you ever referred to your home office as your "command center" or "my personal haven where I do everything I do," then you've got to take a peek at Andrew's amazing home office space, filled to the...
Good Questions: New Audiophile Looking For Some Great Portable Cans
Hey all,
Was wondering if any of you guys had some recommendations for a great set of headphones that sound great (look great would be a plus) and are portable enough for me to carry in the park or l...
Aluminum DVD Shelves for Budding Cinephiles
There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to DVDs -- flaunt or conceal. Some of us like to show off our wicked taste in the cinema. Others like to hide their copies of Real Cancun and Sl...
Look! Solar Panels Powered Home Theater
Seeing as one of the most power-vampiric entities is your from the home theater system, the team at Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) has done the good deed and created a system that's the fi...
Hot Posts 04.19.09: This Week's Top Ten Posts
Ha-cha-cha! Hot posts after the jump......
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