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Richard Hunt's Sound Seed Ceiling Speakers
Normally we do everything in our power to hide away visible cables and wires springing forth from our home audio and video equipment. But in the special case of Richard Hunt's Sound Seed ceiling speak...
Close-Up: Staying One Night at the Lux Pod
Emily, one of the contributors for TheKitchn and my better half with whom I share my life and home, recently traveled over the Atlantic for an epic solo 2-week backpacking trip across the UK whi...
Ergodex DX1: The Ultimately Customizable Keyboard
We've heard lots about the Optimus Maximus keyboard. It's really cool, but it just costs way to much to be useful. That's why we think that the this keyboard is perfect for people working from home, e...
TV in the Kitchen: Two Award-Winning Electronic Kitchens
Electronic House
Do you keep a television or audio gear in your kitchen? Many cooks like to have a good audio system so they can listen to music or NPR, and some cooks even like to have a television set in the kitchen...
Luciol's Digital Bookmarks Organizes Your Real World Library
While placing bookmarks may seem like an everyday, even mundane, task for some, there's always room for improvement when you make it go digital. In comes Luciol, a digital bookmarking device by Defne ...
December Box Lamp Dimmer by Mark Williams
Here's something to stretch your wallet: a solid brass dimmer that turns your lamp up and down with perfect gradation, and it only costs $500. Price aside, this is truly a beautiful object and who w...
Survey: Golden Squiggle Design Contest
We're working on a small design contest that would take submissions over the summer, post them in August and then show off the winners in early September. Right now we're narrowing down the boundarie...
Flickr Finds: IT Dudes Love Pink Too!
We love a dude who loves pink! The home office above is of PACS/Linux Systems Analyst Aaron Doucette. Aaron works out of his Quebec home, which he shares with his pup Beta and his fiancée Karley, wh...
Digital Soaps: Handmade Gaming Control-shaped Soaps
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Years ago when we worked in the field of video game publications we used to half-jokingly mention some of our coworkers regularly exuded a "ripe" bouquet thanks to their avers...
Out of the 'Box': A Round Desk?
I'm in the throes of moving to a new apartment across town and enjoying every second of laying out furniture and hanging art. I've been dragging, nailing and hacking everything to perfectly fit my new...
News: HDMI 1.4 is Coming to a TV Near You
It feels just like yesterday when we started seeing flat panels making their way into the mainstream market. Now, with already 4 revisions of the HDMI standard - the latest being HDMI 1.4, we gain the...
eninal Tray: Organize Your Office on Your Wall
Art as organization, or is it organization as art? Either way, having all your office supplies accessible but not in a messy pile on your desk is a challenge for many of us. You can go with a beautifu...
Close-Up: PocketStudio's Paper Design Home Office
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PocketStudio is a small design firm that makes adorable paper goods from a one-bedroom Twickenham (a leafy suburb of West London, on the river Thames) home. Sarah works out o...
Force Yourself to Wake Up With an Alarm Clock Rug
I, for one, would like to put in two votes that the snooze button is both the worst and best invention ever in history. When you need a few extra winks, you'll be thanking your lucky stars that the sn...
Final Frame: Tivoli's "Tower of Babel"
Tivoli's "Tower of Babel", constructed from 1000 radios for Milan Design Week 2009. Watch how it was constructed below......
The Temperature Controlled Shower Light Indicates Whether To Get In or Stay Out
A dreaded sensation is jumping into the shower first thing in the morning when you're unsure whether the water has warmed up sufficiently. The (strangely horribly) named Hogwild 10690 Temperature Cont...
Solar Umbrella: Charges Your Gadgets While You're Having Fun in the Sun
Imagine all those great summer afternoons or weekends that are spent in your garden relaxing, wouldn't it be great if they'd find a way to harness all that solar energy? The trouble with solar panels ...
Garbage Bin From the Future: Keeps Smells Away
We don't really like garbage bins. They end up being smelly and leaky most of the time. You have to clean the garbage can out so many times that it gets annoying in the end. Plus, the smells can be gh...
Voet Cranf ∞ color synthAxis Color Generating Software
Call us easily entertained. We're still trying to get a grasp of it, but a minute of playing around with voet cranf ∞ color synthAxis has us completely immersed. The free software generates complim...
Go Monochrome! Matching Hardware With Decor
Turning a living room indent into a office landing strip isn't as simple as it looks. You need a keen eye for design cohesion or else it'll look like a sloppy makeshift area for junk. If you're into b...
Close-Up: The Tech-Friendly Hotel
Ritz-Carlton, Battery Park
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Let me first explain that I normally don't cavort around in luxury hotels in my personal life...you'll normally find me in the morning in the lobby nabbing those plastic seale...
DIY Smart Coaster for Heat Sensitive Tongues
A stress-free and relaxing tea time (or coffee time or [insert hot beverage of your choice here] time) in a cozy corner can take an abrupt halt when your tea is scalding hot. All of a sudden your cozy...
Keyboard Command and RSS Themed Lampshades from Meninos
For the true geek in your life, how about lampshades with the RSS feed icon or the punny F1 and F2 command keys ( F1 and F2 are used to increase or decrease monitor brightness on Macs). Availabe in ce...
ICFF 2009: Polaroids and Transistor Radios Memorialized in Candlewax
Seems like more and more people are trying to geekify the age old candle. We've seen candles that mimic light bulbs, not just in purpose, but in style, and last week at ICFF we found these candles f...
Another iPhone Decor App: Sherwin Williams ColorSnap
Last week we posted about the upcoming (in June) iPhone app from Benjamin Moore, the Color Capture. In response, we heard from the folks at Sherwin Williams......
Polaroids Integrated Into Wall Display
Ok, so they're not quite Polaroids. But these compact, square pictures remind us of the instantly recognizable instant film, even if they are missing the telltale thick white border on bottom. Either ...
Flickr Finds: The Retro-Modern Executive Office
Pairing that good retro ol' wooden grain look we've seen in hotel rooms before with sleek tech and modern color touches, this office instantly screams nostalgia. Especially with Grados, a Numark turnt...
Litter-Robot 2 Bubble Unit Adds Skylight and More Room
...and Looks Suspiciously Like a Stark Industries Creation
It was almost a year ago when Sonia reviewed the much coveted holy grail of automatic kitty litter devices, the Litter-Robot. The reviews were mostly positive, but there was notable room for improveme...
Blu Dot Juice Box
When we hear Blu Dot, we instantly think slick desks and slick chairs. Now we can add slick gadget charging accessories to that list. While we have showcased some nice DIY solutions to charging your p...
Roundup: The Ten Coolest DIY Projects
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Here at Unplggd, we've been very lucky to have our own DIY master blaster, Peter Treadway, consistently posting amazing DIY projects he's done at his home. Hopefully you've f...
Tetris Planters Make Gardening a Puzzle
What a techie way to go green! It's so lame to pot your plants into the average square and circular geometric planters, the real geeks get growing with planters shaped like Tetris cubes....
Final Frame: The $10,000 Kitchen Computer
The Honeywell 316 was offered for $10,000 by Neiman Marcus in 1969, complete with a stylish built-in cutting board top and recipe input and storage. The only problem was a significant one: the UI cons...
ICFF 2009: Areaware Torch Flashlight
This past week after attending ICFF and heading out from the city, we found ourselves in one of those situations where you need a specific tool you don't normally worry about, but really need when you...
Balloon Music Speaker: Sharing Music Has Never Been Easier
If you are trying to share music with your friends, you'd need some kind of a dock. The problem is that most docks are bulky and it's not something that you'd take with you when you are going out of y...
Dotz Organizers: Keeping Your Wires Clean
How do the cables under your desk look like? Or the cables and plugs near outlets? If you are like us, it's probably very messy. It's hard to keep things organized under your desk and near power plugs...
Flickr Finds: iTunes Boombox
Ah, finally someone has found a good use for those LaCie ship-vent speakers we were so bonkers about last year. We had our doubts about its portability due to the flat-based design, but this setup by ...
5 Electronic Wine Bottle Openers for the Oenophile
All last week we spent a most enjoyable time working, chatting and notably dining with our fellow Apartment Therapy managing editors. Of all the people we work with, we found ourselves the only non-dr...
JOININ' LED Lamp is Lit by Contact
A lamp without a power switch seems like the front contender for the Design Flaws that Ruined Great Gadgets list. But this lamp lights up and shuts down with a more unique method: using little electri...
ICFF 2009: Holey Shelves Help Save Cables
We like to keep as much off our desk as possible, since no matter what it ends up cluttered by the end of the week. One way we keep the peace upstairs is bringing components like our modem and route...
Plastolux's Modern Credenza Ikea Hack
Tyler of design and interior blog Plastolux wanted to build a credenza, inspired by a project done by x818.com we showcased over at Apartment Therapy NY, except Tyler's budget dictated he needed to lo...
Inspiration: Contrasting New Tech Within An Old Space
We're not too sure if this falls into the category of 'office' or 'castle,' but either way it looks like a mighty fine place to work. This beautiful office space in Turkey was built within the walls o...
The Hand in Hand Clock Gives Time a New Spin
Let's hear it for thinking outside the circle. Looking like some sort of crazy robotic arm, this gizmo is actually a really innovative clock design. Can you read what time the image above is revealing...
Bluelounge CableDrop Keeps Your Peripheral Cables In Check
Bluelounge's SpaceStation currently does a great job of hiding a lot of our peripheral USB cables (alongside providing additional ports), but we still have a tangle of cables and wires behind it leadi...
I'm Not a Battery: Salt and Pepper D Cells
Salt and pepper shakers have a bit of a following here at Apartment Therapy. You've got the traditional wood pepper mills, some quirky animal inspired ones and for good measure a roundup of more moder...
DIY Project: LEDs Brighten Up Ikea TV Unit
Ikea's multi-tonal LED lighting strips have proven to be one of the easiest ways to brighten up your home tech. From highlighting home office desks to adding ambient lighting behind speakers, the $50...
iTouchless Stainless-Steel Infrared Automatic Trash Cans
Nobody likes having to touch garbage or waste material, even if you were the one who threw away the material in the first place. And although some people may think it's a bit over-the-top germaphobic ...
Eggshell Speakers: Tiny Yet Powerful
What are eggshells used for? Apart from housing our morning breakfast, we'd be at a loss to say, but that didn't stop Gomhi from using eggshells to craft a pair of tiny and cute looking loudspeakers. ...
ICFF: Luximo LED Task Light
We saw this Luximo LED Task Light at ICFF and had to stop and take a pic. it's slim, it's elegant, it's bright and it's part of the leading edge in LED design. Winning the 2008 Lighting for Tom...
Modern Ovalia Chair: The Adjustable Computer Workstation
We all love the Ovalia egg chair. It's an iconic piece of furniture from the 60s. Since it hasn't been produced for over 30 years, it's hard to find these days. Previously, unless you could afford the...
Look! Small Kitchen Loaded with Automation
When you live in an NYC high-rise where square footage is hard to come by, sacrifices must be made in order to accommodate one's love for electronics in a central space. Fortunately, they had one larg...
The Kitchen of the Future? Sedna_K Kitchen Island
Saporiti Italia's Sedna_K Kitchen island beautifully takes advantage Corian's transparent quality to merge an integrated display and information system into their futuristic kitchen island concept des...
The New Yorker Cover Art: Sent From My iPhone
This little tidbit just serves as a little reminder that technology can be responsible for some beautiful things. The June 1st issue of The New Yorker features cover art that captures New York City an...
ICFF: Sabino Aprile's Ribalta Desk
Our favourite home office desk of the ICFF show, this small footprint desk from Italian furniture designers, Sabino Aprile, appeals to our preference to hide away our home tech when not in use. The Ri...
ICFF 2009: Floppy Disk CDRs
We're kind of suckers for anything that references our childhood experience with computers. Floppy disks are one of those things. It brings back all memories of working on Pascal in elementary schoo...
Apple iPhone Meets Nintendo Game Boy
You didn't buy an iPhone because of the shiny exterior and sleek lines did you? No. You bought it because it's a superior communication device, even if it does have the disadvantage of not being a Nin...
Best Product: Dropbox, File Storage/Syncing Simplified
Lookin' for one of the easiest and most robust online file storage programs out there right now? If dragging and dropping is your thing, you might want to check out Dropbox, a new worry-free approach ...
Mike and Maaike: Pixels as Jewelry
Do not adjust your monitor. That was my first instinct. Well, that and taking off my glasses to rub my eyes. It seems that the pixel, those tiny square building blocks of images, can bring us wallpape...
Ferm Wallpaper Gives Home Office Depth
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Anna of Newburgh, NY has been renovating her home for quite some while now, and her back room turned home office has made some huge leaps forward. What started as a dirty old...
Geek Rap: I Got 99 Lives and a Power Glove
Here's a little something to start off your week (Gotta love holiday weekends for turning Tuesdays into "Mondays"): An old school-style rap about playing vintage Nintendo. It's considered the "NES rap...
Happy Memorial Day: Outdoor Tech Solutions
The team here at Unplggd want to wish you and your family a happy Memorial Day and hope you're enjoying the warmer weather and long weekend outside the house. Now is a great time to get your front, si...
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