Apartment Therapy Unplugged - Archive for the week of 2009-06-14

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Digi-Garden Hack: Using Broken dSLRs as Plant Pots Close-Up: Glen's Ever So Tasteful Tech How to Organize Your Computer Wires Using Cable Cubes Look! Tyra Bank's Office Makeover...

Final Frame: The Temporary Soundmuseum Turntables Collection

The Temporary Soundmuseum Turntables Collection via Diskursdisko....

Sun Jar: The Perfect Way to Light Your Garden

With summer already in full swing in most places, it's time to hit your garden for some great BBQs and some pool parties. Summer is great, but if you want to party all night long, you need lights of s...

Beautiful Computer Desk Made from Old Door

Maine-based dog photographer Meredith Perdue's & Unlimited Dogs studio is what the British would colloquially call "the dog's bollocks", a beautifully decorated work area anchored by a stunning comput...

Panasonic Proves Plasma Is Still Big, Twilight Ready

There's nothing wrong with dreaming, which is what you'll probably be doing once you've learned that Panasonic is planning on rolling out a brand-spankin' new 85-inch 1080p plasma screen this coming F...

Coil Your Outdoor Cords In Plastic Waste Baskets

If you're planning to show a midnight movie outdoors on the projector screen or wire up your deck with great sound, you're going to have a lot of heavy duty outdoor cords working their way through you...

Baby Monitor App Notifies Parents Using iPhone Mic

We don't know about you, but it seems like everyone around us having babies. And with the arrival of babies means an assorted array of baby gear. Our favourite has always been baby video monitoring sy...

The Pure Air Sleep System Air Purifier Keeps You Breathing Easy While You Sleep

The Pure Air Sleep System Air Purifier is one of those home tech gadgets that look like something we'd half expect Michael Jackson to use on a regular basis. As strange as it looks, we don't doubt it ...

Minifit XL: The Cooling Laptop Stand

If you've converted to a laptop as your main computing machine, you know that they can get quite hot, especially when they run at full power, with the contrast and brightness at the highest setting. A...

Reuse Audio Cassette Tape Covers to Catch Insects Around the House!

Keeping yesterday's tech often means keeping a bunch of stuff around that likely would be best thrown out, recycled or reused. For example, many of us still have boxes of audio cassette tapes, or if y...

Look! Mini Audio Museum
All that's missing is an 8-track and tape player!

We love it when people put new tech next to old tech. Suddenly you have a mini timeline of gadgetry. Take the photo above, for example, of Cristina's bedroom. She's set her iHome Audio iPod dock next...

Samsung's Blu-Ray Player Streams Netflix and Pandora

Have you adopted Blu-Ray technology into your home? After it kicked HD DVD's optical butt in this generation's version of the VHS-Betamax format war, it seems like more and more households are buying ...

DIY Project: TV Framing From a Budget Hotel in Berlin

If you're a constant traveler (and you're not doing the hostel thing everyone's so crazy about), you might take notice to some pretty nifty ideas hotels have to offer these days. Take this budget hote...

Concept: Portable Record Player

A few days ago Gregory reposted a few words from Sarah Rae at Ohdeedoh on the tried and true record player. She mentioned that her old school player gets as much action as the MP3s on her hard drive....

Look! Cell Phone-Styled Building Facade

We wanted to bring you a little something fun to start off the last day of the workweek. I mean, we all love tech, especially when we can tie our tech love into our home decor, but this building facad...

Final Frame: LED Bottle Wall

Bottle wall (no sound) from Alex Beim on Vimeo. An illuminated bottle wall with a controllable LED light behind each bottle....

Digi-Garden Hack: Using Broken dSLRs as Plant Pots

Every so often, we find ourselves regrettably dropping our dSLRs into jacuzzis, down mountain slopes, or leaving them in the hands of babies - none of which results in a reversible outcome, as you mig...

Hot or Not? Nelson Motta's “Nottable” Laptop Stand

Nelson Motta's “Nottable” Laptop Stand ...

Tech Tip: Give Yourself a Desk Landing Strip for Your Gadgets

If you've been reading Apartment Therapy, we're sure you already know about the virtues of having a "landing strip" at the most-used entrance to your humble digs. Whether it's a basket or a shelf or a...

Tengu Mouths Along With Your Music...and Other Sounds

You might be asking yourself, "Is this another useless USB accessory?!" Yes and no, for Tengu is indeed an unnecessary USB gadget, but one we're going to endorse because it's really so darn cute...

Inspiration: Ron Arad's Lolita Pendant Combines LEDs and Crystals

It seems that more and more, technology and common household items are becoming entangled. LEDs are starting to appear everywhere, from watches, to lamps, to displays. LEDs can be used in a variety of...

Chez Larrson's Custom Laptop Nautical Theme Desk

We love this laptop workstation posted over at Apartment Therapy Los Angeles, a stylish nautical themed "Boat Room" decorated by Chez Larsson with a custom made desk created from patched together MDF...

Ever Had Home Tech Buyers Remorse?

The 60" flat panel TV looked great in the store. But when you take it home, somethings not right. Since you've already fidgeted with the settings and optimized the picture for in-home and not in-store...

Dag Designlab: Alarm Controller Goes Minimal

As a remedy for a world of overcomplicated home security measures, Dag Designlab has created one of the simplest solutions we've seen yet. Combining two of man's most basic instincts - sight and sound...

How To: Easily Enable Tethering With iPhone 3.0

We hope you iPhone users have updated to iPhone 3.0 (it was a sluggish upload yesterday, but we got our unit updated after about 45 minutes), enjoying the much anticipated "cut and paste" and search f...

How To: Give New Life to Vintage Tech

The lovely Weltron 2001 radio pictured above has been in the family since my aunt purchased it back in the early 1970s. Though the 8-track player stopped working sometime in the early 1980s, th...

Concept: Indoor Greenhouse on a Stick

While taking a look at great backyard ideas, we can't forget people who don't have the luxury of having a small plot of land to call their own. For those of you stuck to using your green thumb in you...

Color-Shift Particles: The Future of Outdoor Displays

The outdoor home theater of the future is going to be super-high-tech if this new display technology catches on: Tiny nanoparticles that shift colors in response to external changing magnetic fields. ...

Final Frame: Somewhere to Sit Back and Enjoy the Music

Amsterdam apartment by Kirsten Gabriëls and James Webb....

Zeo: The Personal Sleep Coach

If you've ever suffered from insomnia, you know how debilitating it can be to spend a night tossing and turning in your bed. You go to bed tired and you wake up tired. Zeo has thought of a way of help...

Is Your Household Record Player Friendly?

Around our house, the record player gets as much action as our computer full of mp3s. But for many households, the mere thought of a record collection is a thing of the past. The history and evolut...

Inspiration: Gemma's IKEA Shelves For Record Storage

After drooling over Gemma Ahern's breathtaking sneak peek over at Design Sponge Online, we couldn't help but fall in love again with an idea we've seen time and time again - pairing IKEA LACK shelves ...

Inspiration: Hiding the TV

Aaron over at Apartment Therapy New York has already posted about this stunning maze of storage and 6 small sized rooms (which add up to approximately 645 sq ft) in Paris. But our favourite feature of...

Midori AC Adaptor Mimics Plant Vines

Designer Shunsuke Umiyama's Midori AC Adaptor gives us flashback memories of the late 70's and early 80's when dear ole Mom used to like arranging hanging potted plants held up by macramé and from ou...

Make the Most of Tech When You Work from Home

We all spend a lot of time and money getting our home offices looking good (That's why we're all here reading Unplggd, isn't it?). It makes you want to spend every minute that you can in there. You mi...

Air Writing: Using Your Cell Phone Like a Stylus

Tired of not being able to tweet or text while jogging or while you're otherwise busy? Have you decided that you wanted a more gesture-based form of input to your information world? Well, don't worry,...

Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand

Sometimes a piece of wood/paper or a book isn't enough to cool down a laptop when you're working for more than a few hours; laptops like the MacBook can get awfully hot after more than a couple of hou...

Inspirational Spaces to Get Your Work On
Blogging...Real Simple

RealSimple.com came up with 21 ways to keep your home office clean and organized. While their tips are helpful – "A clear plastic desk and chair are unobtrusive in a bedroom" – their home office ...

Flickr Find: A Packed Entertainment Center

Admittedly, it's difficult to keep a sleek, uncluttered entertainment center when you're a fan of movies and video games and all of the consoles, cords and clamshell cases that come along with them. B...

Unplggd's Sales Calendar: Dads and Grads Week

With all this sun, graduates flooding the job market, and Father's day coming around the bend, don't you think it's time to spend a little bit of all that cash you've been keeping from all the banks? ...

DIY Solar Boombox

A solar boombox: because you want to listen to music in the park without purchasing expensive batteries that are bad for the environment; because you don't want to run a cord into your yard while yo...

Hot or Not? Oversized Keyboard Chair

It may be the perfect gift for your accountant, who come tax time is practically sleeping with the numberpad on his keyboard. Designed by Simone Micheli, we think this chair is made to order. ...

Can You Spot What This DIY Lamp is Made From?

This ultra-modern lamp, the result of a quick DIY project, is actually made from a household tool you might keep in your cleaning closet. Can you spot the re-purposed piece?...

Close-Up: Glen's Ever So Tasteful Tech

Name: Glen Benton Location: Gothenburg, Sweden >>>View Slideshow Glen Benton's Gothenburg apartment is just about the perfect idealization of an Unplggd dream abode. Every corner of the apartment is ...

Final Frame: The Outlet Wall

The Outlet Wall is part wallpaper, part largest wall outlet....

Techno-Gong: Hiding Gadgets In Plain Sight

One of the things that we really like is the fact when some of our devices are hidden in plain sight. Don't get us wrong, we love our gadgets, but sometimes it's just better to have them hidden away t...

News: The Aftermath of the DTV Transition

It's quite amazing that after months of heavy advertising, there are are some people out there who got blind-sided this past weekend by the digital TV transition shift. And when we casually say "some,...

GROHE Ondus Digital Bath Faucet and Showerhead Collection

If you ask us, GROHE Ondus' collection of bathroom sink, tub and shower faucets is just about ready for installation into the Batcave under Wayne Manor, with an eye catching matte "velvet black"...

More PC Desktop Space on Less Real Desktop Space

Life's better with multiple monitors. It's just a fact. You get tons of extra space to spread out toolbars and open up pages. But the trade off is that as you gain more virtual desktop space by adding...

Look! Tyra Bank's Office Makeover

Even former supermodels occasionally need help when it comes to style, so Tyra Banks called in some professional help to transform a formerly ho-hum workspace that had the design appeal of a home offi...

Propane-Powered Yard Tools

It's a windy day in Texas, and on windy days our disdain for leaf blowers grows even greater. Our walk from the bus through the city was polluted by the roar of those machines, but more annoyingly, w...

DIY Project: Make Your Own Halogen to LED Conversion

There are many LED conversions out there for halogen lamps. This means that people are converting their halogen lamps to LED lamps by tinkering around with the bulbs and making their own. We've always...

Look! Mid Century Sunken Media Room

Now this is a proper media room! Sure, it's not filled with all the newest and geekiest tech, but the mid-century rounded seating arrangement around the TV gives everyone who comes over for a movie s...

Deskology DESKSET Made to Match Macs

Apple's come a long way. Once a company known for their designer-friendly yet boxy, beige and black-and-white desktop computers, they now dominate technology design and set the trends for everyone els...

Flickr Finds: Diagonal Multimedia Storage

We started getting a little seasick after running into these interestingly structured wall-shelves over at the Program offices in Berlin......

Paperless Invites: Paperless Post

I think I've found where I'm going to have my next set of invitations made- and it's not a bricks and mortar store. It's an online retailer called Paperlesspost.com, they specialize in online ...

Planters Hide Home Theater Speakers Outside

We love anything that plays double duty. The above planters clock in overtime by hiding outdoor speakers, along with holding your beautiful botanicals. Perfect for setting up an outdoor summer theate...

Simple DIY Lamp Lets Tech Take the Stage

What you're looking at up there is the most minimalist of lamps, hand crafted from recycled lab equipment. No DIY project could be easier, we assure you. But the result is simple and, in it's own indu...

Final Frame: ChocoShuffle

The tasty packaging for SwitchEasy's ChocoShuffle reminds us we're craving some chocolate now....

LED Clips: Small and Easily Used to Decorate

Have you ever wanted to have small LEDs? LEDs that you could place all over the place without worrying too much about wires? Look no further, because these little LED clips can be used in this fashion...

Stefan Strumbel's “Deine Heimat” Cuckoo Clocks

Admittedly these pieces are more decorative artwork than hardcore tech (or crazy experimental like the ...

Good Questions: Cheap, DIY Outdoor Security Options?

Julian from Winters, CA writes: Hey Unplggd, I've had a few hooligans TP (aka the classic toilet paper prank) my house a few nights in a row now and it has become quite a nuisance having to wake up ...

Solar Powered Lanterns: Perfect for Outdoor Parties

We've always loved the look of round, colorful lanterns hung in a garden - so festive! This modern version is absolutely perfect for a summer dinner party outdoors, because they can be hung anywhere w...

What's the Best Spot in the House for Rocking Out?

I've got to say that I adore my iHome iPod dock. I leave it in the living room of my apartment and it sits patiently and unobtrusively on the side table. That is, until I come home, yank off the iTrip...

Before & After: From Clutter-top to Disappearing Desktop!

Desks that reside in anything other than a dedicated office run the risk of being used for non-official tasks. Such was the case for Brighton resident, Jeremy, who was clearing piles of clothes ...

How to Organize Your Computer Wires Using Cable Cubes

How is the back of your desk or computer? Messy or clean? For us, keeping our wires untangled is always a work in progress. Even when you take the time to organize them, it doesn't take long until the...

Look! Recycled CD iPhone Dock

We got quite a collection of burned CD-R's in our collection, the remnants of several projects from years ago, backup applications (pre Time Machine era) and miscellaneous files, some which we now hav...

DIY Project: Build Your Own Automated TV Lift

Here's a great DIY for people who want to build their own automated TV lift without having to buy new media furniture... ...

Hulu Goes Browser-less, Now a Desktop Resource

We—and everyone else who enjoys the flexibility to watch their favorite shows on their own time—gush non-stop about the amazing, brilliant and oh-so-addictive online resource Hulu. You can...

OmniMount Makes TV Mounting A Breeze

We've shown you guys how to pull off a wall-mounted TV in the past, but zip ties and huge apparatuses are so 2008. OmniMount hopes to change all that, with its new self-titled, 'Omnimount.' Hoping to ...

Look! Bathroom Vanity Turned Entertainment Center

While walking through the basement of a discount furniture store earlier this year, we stumbled upon a brightly colored orange vanity. It was in theory meant to have a bowl sink placed on top with a...

Tall and Sleek Workstation Tucks Away Desktop Tower

Another great find from Ikea's Swedish forum. The bar-style DIY workstation was made using MDF while the LCD screen was mounted on the wall using a Vesa mount. We love that Sundis' computer tower hid...

The Perfect Bedside Accessory: Stylish Eklipse Clock Radio

Admittedly, this gadget isn't bringing any mind-blowing new technology to the iPod-dock-slash-alarm-clock market. But hot damn if this isn't the sexiest thing to hit your nightstand since you bought a...

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