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Learn How To Build Your Own Standup Arcade Machine
Here's a last second addition to our Friday post via LAMetblogs for tech/DIY minded Angelenos. The folks over at Machine Project are offering a workshop showing how to make your own stand-up video gam...
SushiGuru iPhone App Helps Identify What You're Eating
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We're two weeks into our month long vegetarian diet, a practice we've adopted since the start of the year as a way to moderate our intake of all that tasty but bad for your he...
Green Ideas Somniloquy: Download While Your Computer is Sleeping
If you could save between 60 and 80% of the electricity you normally use through your computer, would you be interested? How about if you could download and IM while your computer was in sleep mode? T...
The Hidden Cabinet Home Office Offers a Place For Everything
What initially looks like your typical home office wall cabinetry reveals itself to offer a space saving and hidden home office with storage galore......
Ikea Hack: Zen Laptop Table
If you are like most people, you're working more and more off your laptop. This liberates you from your desk, and makes you find different places to work. The trouble is that you need a nice flat surf...
Luxeed U5 LED Keyboard: For Instantaneous Office Lightshows
While we're still a bit on the fence about their marketing pushes, it's the concept of Luxeed's U5 LED keyboard is what counts here. With the ability to program each of the 430 LEDs to a color of your...
Re(al)view: NuForce Icon Mobile: Headphone Amp for Two
How many times have you been on a plane and seen two luvahs sharing a pair of earbuds? We do it all the time on the Unplggd jet. Maybe you are watching a DVD on your laptop or maybe you just want to...
Close-Up: van der Architect's Tokyo Offices
click for more picsName: van der Architects
Where: Denenchofu Ota-ku, Tokyo
The name may confuse a bit considering van der Architects' offices are located in Tokyo, but there's little doubt in ou...
Best Prank Ever? Real-Life Dead Pixel in Google Earth
Dead Pixels are annoying little dark bits you'll see on your screen when a bunch of teeny tiny subpixels are permanently off. It might be a broken transistor or just a pixel that's stuck on black. Or ...
Breathing Bud Measures Interior Air Quality
Most people think their home's air is much cleaner than the air outdoors. But the truth is most home air is filled with pollutants and allergens; we discovered how much only after we used a profession...
Do Your Gadgets Keep You From Sleep in Total Darkness?
Are you afraid of the dark? Didn't you love that show? Ok, so we digress. The real point of discussion here is whether or not you're the kind of sleeper that hits the pillow with nothing less than com...
Look! Duncan's Wall-Mounted Workspace
When Duncan Mowatt isn't bumpin' some rockin' jams on his KRK Rokit 6" Studio monitors hooked to a power amp under the desk, he's either gaming or Wacom'ing it up on his custom desk of his dreams, alm...
Pop Art Makeover Results in Pole Mounted TV
While this before and after update over at Apartment Therapy LA met with some pretty mixed reactions, it did have one very unplggd worthy element worth pointing out....the TV mount. While it seems lik...
Look! Modern Shelves + Tivoli Stereo + Antique Wall = Fab Room
We're loving these shelves found in a French home used solely for TV, movie, and photo shoots. What we love about it are the clean, modern lines of the shelves against the rough and natural backgroun...
Lost and Grey's Anatomy Fans Will Get Their Hulu Fix
Hulu is now the third most popular video site on the 'net (after YouTube and Fox Interactive Media) and arguably a force to be reckoned with. Unlike YouTube, Hulu has the potential to take television ...
Final Frame: Furniture Commemorating Tetris
The Tetris Furniture Collection by Diego Silvério and Helder Filipov...
Wooden Laser Cut Earbud Owl: Keeps Your Wired Untangled
If you are like us, you hate having messy wires around. Things get pretty messy with the wires of our MP3 players. No matter how you roll them around, in the end, they tend to get tangled one way or t...
Nintendo NES Mouse: Brings Back Some Memories
This is one sweet looking mouse. It reminds me of playing hours and hours on the NES at home, back when it was the best video game system in the world. Now, it just brings back some cool memories for ...
iPod Touch Accelerometer Turntable App
Spinning vinyl ipod app from Theodore Watson on Vimeo.
Turntablists and iPhone lovers alike will appreciate this smarty-pants iPhone app created by Theodore Watson which uses the iPhone/iPod Touch's a...
10 Preventive Tech Solutions for the Swine Flu Germaphobe
click for more picsYou can reasonably lay out the facts about the Swine Flu, point out 76% of swine flu contractors tested had antibody evidence of swine flu infection without serious illness. Ra...
Digital Wallpaper: Makin' Spaghetti With Spam
We mean digital spam, that is. And uh, wallpaper spaghetti, not that delicious Italian kind you had for dinner last night. Using the unsolicited endless of stream of illegal money scams, viagra offers...
Are LEDs or CFLs the Wave of the Future for Lighting?
GeoBulb LED replacement light bulb, typical incandescent and typical CFL.The New York Times was quick to report that on Tuesday the very last incandescent bulb at Grand Central Terminal in New York Ci...
Gray Scale Desktop, Anti-Swine Flu Keyboard, Affortable Macs, Leaf Keychain Speaker and the Shii
Unplggd Slinks for 4.30.2009
The Color Method Monotone Desktop: A complete gray scale OS X UI overhaul keeps things simple and easy on the eyes.
Washable Keyboard: Worried about Swine Flu? Wash your hands...but you might also wa...
Lego iMac G4 Junior has a Real LCD Screen
click for more picsYeah, it's always cool to see Lego brick mock-ups of our favorite home office tech and supplies—like a stapler, desk, lamp, phone and computer—but this little guy f...
Keepin' It Cool: Window Blinds on a Media Cabinet
Tired of having your A/V equipment overhead inside those media consoles with great designs but bear no mind to any means of ventilation? In comes the Shade media cabinet by GREATBOYS, a simple solutio...
Topography to Typography
Now this is what I would call the unplggd equivalent to the modern classics alphabet poster and Ohdeedoh's nursery friendly embroidered alphabet and DIY alphabet poster. 6 months and a lot of patience...
Final Frame: Subprime by Mike Winkelmann
subprime from beeple on Vimeo.
"The video was meant to illustrate the cyclical nature of the economy," explains Winkelmann, "which at its root is fueled by an insatiable push for 'more, bigger, bette...
Behind the Blog: Etsy
When we think of online marketplace for arts and crafts gift products, there's only really one name that comes to mind: Etsy. For many, visiting the site regularly borders on a near obsession, such is...
Twitter Magnets: Use Virtual Magnets to Compose Tweet
If you've finally caught up in the Twitter rage, then you must have started typing away on your cell phone or laptop, trying to come up with interesting tweets. I've read today that 60% of Twitter use...
Teenage Engineering's DIY Styrofoam Turntable
Anthony posted about the continuing trend of the turntables returning back into home audio setups earlier today, something we're not surprised since audiophiles and music snobs alike agree that vinyl ...
Motion Sensing Energy Saving Monitor by Eizo Nanao
We make it a goal any time we walk away from our laptop+external monitor setup to not only put the system to sleep, but also to turn off the monitor to save energy. It's a small step, but we're all ab...
Gramo Solar-Powered Speakers: They Even Fit in Your Pocket!
When you are outside of your home, far away from any power source, you rapidly find out that power is really important to keep your gadgets going. Speakers need to be powered. The fact that the Gramo ...
Bust Out That Turntable: LPs Slowly Make a Comeback
While most of us out there have done away with your turntable years ago when CDs became the "killer tech," there are some who still decided it might still be worthwhile to keep the old hunk of junk ar...
Use Twitter to Keep Motivated Through Dirty Work
CNN news producer Peter Wilkinson and Latitude Group CEO Alex Hoye recently ran the London Marathon. It's a great feat to finish the 26-mile marathon, but possibly the coolest thing about their journe...
Look! Desk for Typewriters Old and New
It's amazing how many things of the past you can turn into an office desk. Take the doctor's office examination table or the vintage morgue gurney we've found. Above, a desk with a little less of a g...
Close-Up: A Godly Attic Media Room Renovation
click for more picsAfter a year's hard labor, Sylt's finally ready to show us his attic media room designed for media gods, made all the more convincing with beautifully crafted mahogany chairs s...
Hot or Not? Bua Gelaskins
We have long been fans of Justin Bua's graffiti inspired art. We have a few of his prints, including the original Piano Man. So as we continue to see laptop personalization and designer/ laptop collab...
Re(al)view: RCA's Digital Antenna
Say no to cable scare tactics
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If there's one thing that really chaps my ass it's the scare tactics cable companies have taken to convince anyone who will listen that the only way you'll be able to watch T...
6 Household Uses For Recycling Old Mouse Pads
It's a strange realization to have on a random Wednesday morning, but I just noticed that I haven't seen a spongy square mouse pad in many years. Now that optical mice are de rigeur, you don't really ...
Final Frame: Technological Influence
A timeline and data visualization depicting all of the technological influences throughout Network Osaka's life; starting from the first Nintendo Entertainment System, to his latest custom-built compu...
Card Lamp Folds Flat on Desk to Keep Desk Clean
If you are like me, your desk must be a mess. Mine is overflowing with paper and books, computers and envelopes all over the place. More space on your desk leaves room for even more papers. The Card l...
The Sexy LaCie Data/Share Flash Memory Reader
We're not prone to label SD card readers "sexy", but there's some hinted sexual innuendo happening here, don't ya think? Also a bit of school eraser aesthetic. The LaCie's Data/Share reads SD and micr...
OLED Lamps: Sleek and Thin
A lot of people are talking about OLEDs, but this is the first time I've actually considered that OLEDs can be used to actually light stuff up, just like LEDs. The beauty of OLED displays is that they...
Seagate: Replica Hard Drive Does What It Says, In Style
Some things just look so much sexier in aluminum, no? And we're not just talking about soda pop here, we're talking about shiny accessories to complement your adored PC or Mac. Accessories like Seagat...
How to... Skip Commercials on Hulu
With so many people opting out of unaffordable cable bills, watching TV shows online through sites like Hulu and CastTV becomes mighty appealing. But since there's no TiVo for Hulu (and if there was i...
Close-Up: Scott's Ultimate Man Cave
click for more picsPerhaps we've seen more stylish ones before, but we're going to go out on a limb and call Scott A. Pope's Man Cave entertainment room the ultimate den of tech delights for the ...
Look! Susan's Kitchen Computer
Yesterday we asked you about the things that are inspiring you in the kitchen. In response, Susan wrote in to say that her new kitchen computer has been very inspirational lately! Read on to see what ...
What a Little Wallpaper Can Do...
We've posted before about the impact wallpaper can have in a tech heavy room, and this space is no exception. The blue mantel piece paired with the matching blue and brown baroque wallpaper really ma...
Motherboard Mirror: Who Knew Circuits Could be so Sexy?
Looking for a mirror with a little extra flair? While we wouldn't advise this solution for plucking and shaving in the bathroom (like that guy up there who we guess must enjoy working around the "circ...
Good Questions: How Do I Connect Two Monitors To My Laptop?
Here's a quickie for you guys. How do I connect two LCD monitors to my laptop when it only has one DVI out? Yes, three monitors may sound like complete overkill, but that's how I like it, k? So how ab...
DIY Project: Turn an Obsolete Newspaper Stand Into a Digital News Feed
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Scott Walker is a newspaper editor who has a soft spot for the traditional. Rather than get his headlines from his desktop, he rigged an old newspaper stand to gather all the...
Rock Band Storage Ottoman—With Drum Lift!
It's no secret we love to play Rock Band and look damn good doing it. But making sure our living room looks good long after we've strummed our last strum? Not so easy. Those guitars, the mic stand (ye...
Final Frame: The Notebook You've Always Wanted
Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo....
Mini Workstation: Fits in Rooms of Any Size
Have you ever found yourself wishing you had a compact workstation for the garden, the living room, or your room? Wonder no more, because the iMove is the perfect solution to your workstation related ...
Decorative Pillows For Graphic Design Nerds
Graphic designers, photographers and other creatives who work in Adobe's apps will surely get a kick if you surprise them with one or all of the "creative suite" of pillows from MySuiteStuff's 12"x12"...
The Foldout Mac Home Entertainment Wall Unit
Got an outdated but still usable laptop that has a working DVD drive? Mac owner Phil Long converted his outdated laptop as a wall-mounted entertainment unit that operates as a digital photo frame, hom...
Stardust Light Furniture: Like it or Hate it
If you had furniture that could light-up like a spaceship, would that make you happy? Is light something that could be used in furniture without being too awkward? Those are the questions that the Sta...
Denon: New Turntable Doubles As Digital Vinyl Toolbox
If you're like us, you've probably got a few friends that collect old vinyls and who absolutely refuse to go digital, with claims of huge quality degradation with "new" compressed music files being wi...
Philips "You fade to light" OLED Installation
"You fade to light" - OLED Installation from rAndom International on Vimeo.
An interactive tech installation created by the company International Random for Philips that gives us some insight of both ...
Type Tray Looks Cool, Keeps Cool
The mundane and practical can also be beautiful. Case in point; this laptop resting spot that only does a great job of keeping your lap cool from the heat of those sometimes scorching hot machines, bu...
Tenant Txt Aids Apartment Management and Renters To Stay Connected and Informed
As a lifelong renter ourselves, we're always interested in resources that help the renting demographic with being heard and protecting their basic rights as tenants. So it's no surprise we're fond of ...
Key 2 Safe Driving Locks Up Your Phone Until You Park
Last week, we mentioned our concerns with distracted drivers when we told you about our road-rage-inspired road trip game, "Guess the Gadget." Commenter kambykitten said her super-commuting boss estim...
Photographer Captures Some of the Best TV Rooms
OMG! Love, love, love this living room. From the big windows to the low profile sofas to the gynormous foliage to the beautiful flat screen and speakers mounted on the wall, this room has everything....
What's In Your Mobility Setup?
After taking a look at messenger bags and backpacks, we're starting to think about our eventual switch over to a mobility computing setup (so we can work at cafe's and look good while doing it). Er.. ...
Flickr Finds: Custom Goldfish Chumby
click for more picsWe blogged about the Chumby back in 2007 and while the functionality has evolved since then, the bland looks have remained pretty much the same. If you go to the Chumby site, y...
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