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Archerfish: Intelligent Web-Based Home Security
When you have a home, you need some kind of security system. It all depends on exactly what it is. Thankfully, condos and most apartment buildings are already secured in some fashion. From access card...
Green Style: LED String Lights on the Patio
We've seen some amazing outdoor spaces so far this month, but it's good to remember that even something as simple as stringing a few LED lights can transform your outdoor space into something special...
How To: Improve Your Home Theater System Sound
Okay, so you've vested enough dough into your 5.1 home theater sound system to pay off the rest of your car payments, but all of those hard-earned dollars might be going to waste if your system isn't ...
Laptop Keyboard Protector
If she see it, she's generally heading straight for it- our laptop. And lately, it's her favorite choice for something to push on as she's learning to stand. And those skype sessions with grandma a...
NY Times Untangles the 'World of Cables'
So, admittedly, some of us are not all tech experts. Even though we love a sleek MacBook and couldn't do without our iPod dock, we aren't exactly well-versed on all things home tech. Like we still get...
Lexon Tube Radio Puts a Twist On Tuning
Lexon's Tube Radio puts...pardon our propensity for puns...a twist on FM band tuning with a design by Hélène Carric. The antenna is hidden within the vertical case while the speaker is facing upward...
Smartbulbs: Lightbulbs Get an LED Update
We all want to save money. That's why most of use have started using these fluorescent bulbs instead of the traditional ones. They are way more energy efficient and will save you a bunch of money thro...
The Brondell Swash 800
in the Test Lab
Our new Brondell Swash 800 - closed position
Product: Brondell Swash 800
Designer: Brondell
Price: $850
Rating: Strong Recommend
I have always been fascinated by these funny, new-fangled bidet seat...
iStand Notebook Media Bundle
From the professionals who dominate the iPod-dock, iHome, comes a product bundle that will take your compact laptop and transform it into an entire desktop work and listen station that's still sleek, ...
Good Tech Gardening Tips for the Backyardless?
While living in a 2-bedroom loft in downtown might have its pluses (computing on the balcony, close proximity to work, and a friendly security guard named Joe), when it comes to finding anything remot...
Concept: Download Your Own Chime Doorbell
Inspired by percussion, Mike Skene's DoorBell Project is made of 13 hand tuned aluminum chimes housed in a sycamore frame. Using an application like iTunes, you can download new ring tones directly t...
Look! Ornate Lighting in the Kitchen
Usually the only tech you see in the kitchen is the stuff used to make and store food; refrigerators and ranges and the like. Well, there's obviously some kind of light fixture to illuminate your kitc...
Final Frame: Husqvarna Panthera Leo
We don't think we've ever felt the desire to mow the lawn so strongly until now. Absolutely the coolest lawn mower. Silent and eco-friendly concept mower for the future, the Husqvarna Panthera Leo....
Stores: Y Lighting Perfect to Find that Incredible Looking Lamp
Y Lighting is one of those great online stores that lets you pick and choose the perfect lighting for the rooms in your home. Lighting is an easy way of changing the mood of any room. All that's neede...
Fogless Shower Mirror With LED Light and Clock
Father's Day is just around the corner so why not reward him with a mirror that shoots out a LED beam onto his scruffy mug so he shine some light while shaving in the shower. Is it just us or does it...
It's Doubly Functional: Beach Home's Patio Lounge
Kickin' back and enjoying the sunset couldn't have been made easier over at this incredibly chic patio lounge area set in Malibu, CA. With features like weather-proof big screens, outdoor-mounted spea...
Which Home Technology Service Would You Cut First?
You don't have to tell us the economy is bad. My girlfriend and I personally know the effects first hand. She was laid off recently with nearly 100 other employees and now we've gone from a comfortabl...
The First Thing to Do When You Get your New HDTV Home
If you've recently saved up some cash (or crunched a little closer to your credit card's limit) and finally bought that brand new HDTV you've been lusting after, you might be a little confused as to w...
iHandy Carpenter: The Tech Handyman's Companion
With the Apple iTunes App Store reaching 50,000 downloadable applications to extend your iPhone or iPod Touch into nearly every realm of life, we're starting to see a slew of helpful home improv...
Look! Hide Unseemly Wall Sockets!
Even though we might think that most places don't have enough wall sockets, there are some houses and pads that just have sockets at the worst possible places. There wasn't much that you could do with...
Before & After: Cablebox Disappearing Act
Here's a great before and after showing how the Bluelounge Cablebox can really get your jumble of wires and surge protector in order. The folks over at house42.com had the typical-normal tangle of wi...
Does Every Little Bit Count?
On of the big theories in green thinking is that "every little bit counts." Rather than just give up on environmentalism because you can't make your home into a solar-powered lair, you're encouraged t...
We Love... Lamp: George Nelson Criss Cross Lamps Get Reissued
One of our favorite lamps of all time get a well-deserved re-release over at Modernica this week. The George Nelson Criss Cross lamps in flavors of Pear, Cigar, and Ball all make an appearance (Yeah, ...
Color Changing Solar Lights from Target
We love using candles and tealights to light outdoor parties, but have learned the hard way that open flames, windy conditions, and large groups of milling guests can have unintended results. Becau...
Give that Kindle a New Book Smell
With more and more people opting for e-books via the Kindle, that musty book smell has been replaced by eau de e-ink. But, you don't have to settle for that. Smell of Books "offers" five aerosol e-bo...
If Sales Keep Growing, Will Smartphones be a Necessity?
In the top five most awesomely awkward moments that forced social networking events provide, this has to be up there: Exchanging contact info with a possible parter who doesn't have an email address Y...
Final Frame: Mac vs. PC Poster
A retro style boxing poster for the ultimate world title fight between the two heavyweight platforms. Ready to frame for your home office and available for about $17....
Loofen: Deodorizing Composter For Apartments
It's well known that one of the best ways of getting rid of some of our waste is by composting it. Sure it's smelly, but it's green and if you have a large enough yard, you don't really notice it. But...
Martin Ballendat's L@p Chair
Designer Martin Ballendat designed the L@p chair to be used in hotels and other public spaces where traveling laptop users could park themselves to relax in a lobby, enjoy some hopefully free wi-fi an...
Inspiration: Computing On Your Balcony
We've seen KMR's stuff here before on Unplggd, but that certainly doesn't mean we can't give him a revisit. When the going gets tough, Mr. KMR kicks back in his Eames chair and computes away with the ...
More iPhone Apps for the Home Cook
Awhile back, we posted about iPhone apps for the home cook. Well, it's almost a year later, and the app market has grown by leaps and bounds, so we thought we'd round up some more fun and useful cooki...
Remove a Broken Lightbulb with a Plastic Water Bottle
So we're sure you all know the old potato trick for removing the metal threaded base of a broken light bulb from a socket. The idea is to get a good grip on the broken piece without actually touching ...
Blender Defender: Motion Sensing Blender Deters Cats From Eating Your Houseplants
Let us preface by saying we're a two cat household. We love our two felines, but as any cat owner knows, felines can be stubborn pains in the derriere once they've decided they're going to investigat...
My Great Outdoors: Peter's "The Owls Are Not What They Seem" Security System
Name: Peter Treadway
Location: Whittier, CA
Type of space: Front, side and backyard
Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: This was a project that was designed to keep the neig...
Vinyl Wall Decal Clock from Artstick
For the most part, vinyl wall decals don't really get us excited anymore. We all know they've been done to death, to the point where the use of them no longer seems creative. But this concept from the...
Flickr Find: Single Chairs as Speaker Stands
The simplest ideas are sometimes the most elegant. In this Flickr Find, a single extra bar-height folding chair becomes an artsy, almost bohemian way to stand up your speakers...
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Unplggd's Sales Calendar: New Macs, Headphones & Travel Goods
Are we halfway through the week already? Well, it's either going really slow or really fast - preferably the second one, unless you're about to make a one-way road trip across the United States like y...
The X-Base by Balmuda
You might remember Balmuda as the company who brought us the Floater Macbook Dock or the iPhone Keypad App. Now that Macbook Pros are sporting those beautiful LED-backlit glossy widescreen displays,...
Hot or Not? Fender Strat Coffee Table
Straight from the boys themselves at Fender Custom Furniture, this solid maple coffee table is a perfect replica of a famous Fender Stratocaster electric guitar headstock. In perfect proportion, your ...
Green Ideas: Extracting Water from Thin Air
If you have a lot of humidity in your place, you know that there can be lots of water extracted from thin air thanks to dehumidifiers. This water extracting machine takes things a bit further. We all ...
Good Questions: Cleaning My Laptop?
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Dear Unplggd, I've recently switched over from years using a desktop computer at work to now being given a laptop to use inbetween the home and office. As a fairly new laptop user, and not necessarily...
News: Apple Unleashes a Flurry of Updates at WWDC '09
Ah, Apple press conferences. It's always fun to watch the masses willing to come together and sacrifice their lunch hour following Tweets and live blogs, just to catch the latest glimpse of what Jobs'...
Command Sit: Stackable Keyboard Outdoor Seating
Ross McBride's Command Sit stackable stools are super-sized seating options that might appeal to the tech-loving crowd who always wants to have their keyboard close at hand...or under tush (they look ...
Quite Possibly the Most Stylish Toaster Ever
Of the entire family of home tech; after all the laptops, LCD TVs and home stereo systems; it's the kitchen tech that gets the least play. And no kitchen tech is as under-appreciated—yet complet...
Hot or Not? Tree Stump Outdoor Speaker
Colleen over at Apartment Therapy DC recently posted this Hot or Not about this tree stump shaped outdoor speaker. They're designed to provide high quality sound while blending into the landscape, p...
DIY Project: How to Build Custom Speaker Cabinets
Speakers come in all sorts of sizes and shapes.The important thing isn't how they look, but how they sound. Some of the more expensive ones can cost as much as a house. That being said, it's also poss...
Meninos Adobe CS3 Designer Set Coasters
First there was the iPhone icon inspired coasters for your geeky home decor needs, and now graphic design nerds can partake with protecting their coffee tables and desks with these Adobe CS4 CS3 [corr...
LapBoard Keeps Computing Laps Cool
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Earlier today, while working on our laptop from the couch, our legs (poking out of some shorts) were practically burned by our charging Macbook battery. Good lord that thing ...
Table 180 Tucks All Your Desk Neccessities Away
The key to cutting down on visual clutter in a home is to have a place for everything and to keep everything in it's place. There could not be a more fitting motto for this desk concept. With Tab...
Flickr Finds: Mixmaster Student Designs On A Dime
Even with the slightly excessive HDR treatment (the photography technique that helps emphasize this room's bursting contrast and color), there's something undeniably splendid about having such a fine ...
Disposable Technology: Cardboard Clones
Kyle Bean is at it again- he's recently introduced his comment on runaway consumerism. He made the gadgets to look like plain old cardboard to show that the advancement of disposable technology is ...
Geek Jewels: Check Out of the Keyboard Rocks that I Got
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There's tons of geeky jewelry out there, but it's rare to find geek pieces that don't just look like novelty items and more like blinged out jewelry you may actually rock.
W...
How to... Paint a Ceiling Speaker Grill
So you're finally the proud owner of a home and you're ready to set up the most rocking home theater that anyone on the block has ever seen. You've installed an enormous pull-down projector screen and...
Final Frame: Austin Outdoor Home Theater
Beautiful Austin rental, complete with outdoor home theater....
Light Facet: Diamond Shaped Light and Room Divider
Large rooms and lofts are great, providing that you know what to do with so much space. It can be a daunting project, but one way to work with large room is by using room dividers. Room dividers are c...
Acerbis Integrated Projection Screen Unveils Up!
The common solution for a projection screen setup is to either install a pull-down screen (like the one we have in our apartment) or to place or paint a permanent surface to project a picture onto. An...
Good Questions: Which Color Task Chair in a Retro Modern Office?
Ian writes: I'm pretty stuck in between the leather fabric choices of red and brown for my Humanscale Freedom chair with headrest. My greatest fear is the red being too contemporary lookin' for the la...
Green or Not: CFL Bulbs?
We've talked a lot recently about the LED bulb revolution (here and here) and the fact that they're likely to replace CFLs as the go-to green bulb. We've also noticed in the Comments that many of yo...
Do You Ever Think About the View From Your Desk?
Most often when laying out furniture in a new space, you keep in mind three main considerations: fit, aesthetics and flow. That is: Where stuff can go, how stuff looks and how you're supposed to walk ...
Solar Powered CD and MP3 Player
Want to enjoy your tunes without worry about energy bills [cue in appropriate music]? Live somewhere with an abundance of sunshine? I've always wanted a modern-weird looking audio device to confuse fr...
How to Monitor Your Home Utilities Usage Using Webcams and Google Android
It's always good to find new ways of saving money. One of the easiest ways is monitoring the amount of electricity that you use, plus the amount of water and gas. This lets you see how to curtail need...
Bluelounge StudioDesk for Laptop Users
It's like the folks over at BlueLounge read our mind (or our site, hopefully) about our search for a new desk when they emailed us today with this batch of photos of their new StudioDesk, a work...
Inspiration: Thomas Wold's Built to Order Photographer's Office
Here's hoping we don't overdose you with Thomas Wold projects. We promise we'll take a break from him after this post, but we recently checked in with his blog and found so many inspirational project...
The Best Free Web Sites to Find Foreclosed Homes
With the twisted shape the housing market is in right now, everyone's got something at stake. But if you're among those right-place-right-time-ers who are in a position to buy a home, others' misfortu...
Grassy Lawn Charging Station: Nerds Love It, Re-Nest Approved
While we're pretty sure these Tetris-inspired gardening puzzle pieces probably came out first, who would've thought that adding a punch of functionality (and replacing it with some fake grass) would t...
How To: Dust Small & Hard To Reach Places
Dust and dirt is a never ending problem and if we were going to make a comic book with household villains, dust (along with static) would be right there leading the pack (or would it be posse?). Whe...
Wii Balance Board Stand and Charging Station from Mad Catz
Wii Fit, with it's motion-sensing balance board, is a home exercising force to be reckoned with. It's a perfect rainy day solution for active people in small, cool spaces who most certainly don't have...
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