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Tech Tour: Tia and Mikko's Masterplan
Finland
Name: Tia and Mikko
Location: Southern Finland
Size: 79 m² / 850 sq ft.
Years lived in: 3
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We first ran across Tia and Mikko's Finnish home while going through archives of photo...
Universal Eco Speakers: Made Out of Cardboard
When you are on the go, you don't always need the best pair of speakers to share music with your friends. Most of the cheap speakers out there are made out of plastic, and plastic isn't the best green...
ICFF 2009: ECCO Design Dynamic Lux Ribbon CCFL Lamp
A few years back when CFL bulbs first came out onto the scene and the media and eco-proponents were pushing the public to adopt the energy efficient lighting solutions, many people balked due to a cre...
Zoning Off the Home Office From the Home Entertainment
There was this great post over at Apartment Therapy DC about using bookshelves as partitions to create "zones" within an open space. This is especially a great idea for those of us who have to work ri...
Transparent-Looking PMP Player: You Can Use it As a Mirror
The last PMP that we had was an Archos. We used it on and off, but never as an MP3 player. The thing was just too heavy. We stopped using it when the battery blew up. The PMP market has been growing, ...
Close-Up: Pulver's Retro Modern Home Theater
click for more picsHave a love for vinyl? Dig wooden retro cabinets? Oh, and do you also get kicks out of hiding your woofer in cute little boxes? Well, get ready because you're gonna be in a for...
Rubik's Cube Hand Stamp Prints An Entire Font
Sometimes the best gadgets are the ones that aren't really gadgets at all. This little Gizmo is a pretty simple Rubik's Cube design—well, as simple as a Rubik's Cube can naturally be—with ...
More Transformers Peripherals: From Mice to USB Hubs
Well, we've just made a little discovery. There are more devices in disguise available out there for all of you Transformers nuts. Transformers are pretty close to LEGOs in their universal appeal to t...
ICFF 2009: Blu Dot's Minimalist Desk, Plus Sale Info
It ain't cheap – $700 – but it sure is purty. Seen at ICFF, Blu Dot's desk is made of polyurethane covered MDF with metal legs and features a sliding keyboard tray. Comes in both ivory and red....
ICFF 2009: Sonoro elements W Wireless Internet Radio
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One of the handful of straight up home electronic designers at this year's ICFF show were the team from Sonoro Audio, a German company with a lineup of minimal modern au...
Automatic Toilet Lowers the Seat, Prevents Lovers' Quarrels
click for more picsNever again will you have to yell at your hubby for leaving the toilet seat up. Technology finds a solution for another common household problem with the AutoClose automatic t...
Brikolör Furniture: Built For Simplicity, Built To Last
To continue with our ongoing tech minimalism coverage, we have an ambitious furniture set designed by Brikolör of Göteborg, Sweden. These minimalistic cabinets leave absolutely no room for a receive...
Creative Re-use: Toothpicks Turned Lampshade
For whatever reason, it seems that recycled objects seem to make their way into some sort of lampshade. Case in point, cassette tapes, spray cans, and even chiquita bananas.(Not the actual bananas, bu...
15 Year Old Shocks Again
Upgrades Bedroom Office on Teenager Savings
click for more pics Remember that 15-year-old with the wicked bedroom office set-up? Well he just redecorated again! Lew needed a bigger desk and his TV was on its way out so he and his mom split...
RunPee: Never Miss The Good Parts Again
RunPee is the kind of brilliant Web service that makes you wonder why it hasn't been thought of before. With all of the collective knowledge available to us on the internet, it's about time somebody h...
Final Frame: Great Leaps in Spam
From an ongoing project illustrating the titles of spam. via Jessperation...
Pinnacle Flat Pack TV Stands by Paul Isabella
We shared SCAD graduate Paul Isabella's Table of Contents design last week and while digging around on his site we found these designs for Flat Pack Television Stands that are superbly simple.....
Good Questions: In Search of the Perfect Study Desk
While this question was originally intended for AT, we figured our like-minded readers may help Liz in her search for the perfect study/occasional computing desk for her home office:
Hey all!
Liz he...
ICFF 2009: Straight Line Designs Inc. i-Log
The name is a bit un-"i"nspired, but Straight Line Designs Inc. presented one of the coolest home decor tech items at this year's ICFF show...the sort of home technology product which goes unnoticed a...
Modern Tech Fossils
click for more picsEver wonder what our generation would leave behind for societies thousands of years from now? Well wonder no more. Artist Christopher Locke has projected the future and design...
ColorCapture Ben iPhone App Matches Paint Color In Photos
It's not quite a snap and match solution (the iPhone's digital camera is still quite rudimentary and color matching is a guesstimate at best), but we think Benjamin Moore's ColorCapture Ben iPhone an...
Survey: What Are You Watching Hulu On?
We all know that both television shows and movies are moving away from discs and cable operators and towards the web. Even the cable companies know they have to come up with a way to jump on the 'net...
48 Hands on 24 Clocks Show 1 Time of Day
Created by Swedish designers Humans Since 1982, this digitalesque-display clock is an art installation called Clock Clock—and it's really just an optical illusion of 24 tiny analog clocks that s...
Inspiration: A Punch of Tech and Color
It always seems Sweden's always comin' up with an endless array of desserts and design ideas, so it's not surprising that Alvhem, a real estate site that has nothing to do with home tech, has such awe...
MECO: Side Table Computing
The stealth living room PC. We don't know what's cooler, the fact that you have your home theater PC and associated equipment hidden away in a sleek package or what looks to be a motorized access door...
Email'N Walk Prevents Typing-While-Strolling Disasters
So you know about the obvious dangers of texting on the phone while driving. Something about the combination of being distracted and—oh yeah, not looking at the road (!!) ends in automobile coll...
Final Frame: You Have Arrived
This 3-D Google Maps marker of wood, fabric and paper is a public art installation by German artist Aram Bartholl. Via Web Urbanist...
Green Style: BDDW's Phila Audio Stereo Systems
Tyler Hays from BDDW has been experimenting more and more with analog audio systems combined with the style furniture he's known for: handmade, high quality ingredients and playful juxtapositions. M...
The Racist Digital Camera?
Is it bad that we find our friend JozJozJoz's run-in with the Nikon S630 digital camera she got for her mom hilarious, despite our own asian ancestry? The built-in blink detector kept mistaking her sm...
Transformers USB: Flash Drives in Disguise!
As we're writing this post, we're already humming the theme music for the Transformers. Robots in disguise! For those of you who are unaware, just like G.I. Joe, Transformers was a pretty important an...
Budget Theater: Smart A/V Buying Tips from Hi-Tech Home
While the room above may look like a $100,000 makeover, it really can be budgeted to meet the working requirements dollar-wise to keep your family happy - or at least, make it not seem like you're suc...
NY Times Tells Us How to Catch Up With Twitter
In a column borrowed from International Data Group's CIO.com, the NY Times gives us some Twitter Tips on how to catch up with a mountain of Tweets while you've been away......
ICFF 2009: Japan by Design
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ICFF, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, is obviously primarily known as a trade showcase for designers and companies to reveal upcoming and current home furnishin...
Top Ten: Alternative and Ergonomic Keyboards
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We're sitting here with our boss sharing a table as we both work remotely out in his living room. We pulled out a laptop and attached our Wacom Bamboo tablet while he pulled o...
ICFF 2009: Geneva's New Walnut Stereo
click for more picsLast year Geneva showed off its stereo console at ICFF. This year they showcased a smaller iPod stereo dock which shows off its woody background. Geneva Labs previous iPod ster...
Getting Ready For Geek Pride Day?
Are you putting together a shopping list of outdoor grill-out staples like hot dogs and potato chips for your big Memorial Day fiesta this weekend? Well change up your plans. There's a much more impor...
Before & After: Christine's Entertainment Center
In the spirit of Spring cleaning, we're here to present yet another great example of tech minimalism in full effect. This time around, it's a reorganizing project done by Christine, who cleverly repla...
Dog-O-Matic: Convenience or Cruelty?
Oh my. As pet lovers here at unplggd we would definitely argue the latter, but French entrepreneur Romain Jerry would disagree. Rather than deal with the dirt and grime that comes with taking your dog...
Laptop Stands Hit the Infomercial Mainstream
Laptop stands have yet to hit the mainstream, non-techie world. Blame it on the fact that people like your neo-luddite mom don't even know they could use one to keep their shiny new laptop cool and ra...
16 Port USB Hub: When You Just Don't Have Enough Ports
With your camera, your phone, your USB drives, your iPod and more gadgets needing to be connected to your computer or laptop, you'll need a lot of USB ports to satisfy your gizmos. Sure, you can alway...
Woodventure Carved Wooden USB Flash Drive: Secure and Beautiful
We've seen a couple of wooden USB flash drives on the market, but I have to say that this one is by far the most beautiful. It's carved from an exotic wood that's known for being resistant and hard. B...
Flickr Finds: Shinn's Take On Glassy Classy
Like the time when we went ahead and tried to complement certain desk styles with the perfect laptop companion, the same type of associative thinking when it comes to picking the right lighting to mat...
'Smokey' Concept Silences Smoke (False) Alarms
You know how sometimes when you're in the kitchen cooking a big meal, the smoke alarm goes off? And then you have to wave an oven mitt around in the hallway until the excruciatingly annoying thing sto...
Look! Namco's WiiWare Muscle March
We're posting this under the pretense that a home aerobic workout could be attained while playing this upcoming Japan-only Nintendo Wii game. The truth is we just wanted to post this because it's so ...
Hyatt Hotel Concierge is the Latest to Start Tweeting
New technology always opens doors. But the Twitter-led, one-way, micro blogging phenomenon is opening up a lot more than doors. Think bottles of bubbly, the sunroof of a towncar and jars of the finest...
Survey: Are You a Tech Minimalist?
Some of us love to collect the biggest, baddest tech out there. Collect them and pile them up on a pedestal, displaying our excellent taste in diverse tech and knowledge. On the other hand, you might ...
How to Make a 45rpm Vinyl Record
This isn't really an instructional "How To" as much as it's an informational one. We use all this tech stuff around us without ever really thinking about where it comes from. Watch this video from BBC...
Final Frame: Mac, circa 2050
If they keep getting smaller, this prediction of a Mac Micro (via Worth 1000) doesn't seem too far off....
Kamil Kurka Kavovar Coffee Machine: From the Enterprise to Your Kitchen
Most mornings, I just teeter and totter through my routines. The thing that really wakes me up is my cup of coffee and/or my morning shower. Without either of these two, I wouldn't be properly awake u...
Design Glut: Candlestrip
ICFF 2009
Amidst the more serious offerings at ICFF are always a few that we love for their tongue-in-cheek sense of humour. This candlestrip from Design Glut is one of them. Responding to a challenge by curat...
The Clock of Clocks: Using Analog Clocks to Created Digital Time
We love our clocks. Even though watches and clocks seem to be getting less and less use these days, it's always refreshing to have a nice clock in the living room, the kitchen or the office to tell ti...
Camouflaging Your Camera As an Anti-Theft Measure
We've seen this idea most prevalent amongst urban cyclists afraid of losing their two wheeled transportation to would-be thieves: camouflaging their expensive bikes with duct tape, haphazard paint job...
Playstation 3 Finally Receives Some Logitech Harmony Love
Because the PS3 relies solely on Bluetooth for its wireless communication needs, any Harmony remote owners (which nearly 95% supports only IR as it primary means of communication) trying to fully inte...
Useful Study? Are Emoticons a Global Language?
File this one under "Do We Really Spend Money Studying This?": A study from Masaki Yukia, William W. Maddux and Takahiko Masuda (from Hokkaido University, Northwestern University and the University of...
Look! $6 Million Home Theater
Yowza!
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Wow. That's all we can say.
This is a home theater to beat all home theaters. Obviously this isn't a realistic set-up for those of us that earn less than seven, let alone f...
USB Couches Provide a Living Room Network
Are your couches geeky enough? The “USB Sofa” is a concept created for OFFF Lisbon 2008, the International Festival for the Post Digital Creation Culture, which looks and functions like a leather ...
Inspiration: A Personal Cyber Attic
While it's not our first time witnessing the transformation of attics into dedicated home theaters, this comfortable confine refines the purpose of having sloped ceilings, which contributes to improvi...
BatMac: Hangs Down From Kicthen Cabinets
We spotted this image on Lifehacker of their reader Kurt's kitchen workspace. We love the Campbell's Soup cans as pencil cups, especially because the repetition and the green color block behind them m...
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