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Sherwood's Wireless AV Receiver:Powered by WiFi
Unless you've plugged in a computer into your HDTV, you might still need a way to connect your internet with your fancy new screen. Some HDTVs are coming with built-in ways of accessing Netflix and ot...
Yamaha MCR-140 and MCR-040 iPod Docks
To be honest, we've never been big proponents of iPod docks (well, except for those minimalist Geneva Sound units) because most of them have an awkward look to them with an iPod parked ontop. At least...
Stylish KZO x Masterpiece Alpine Backpack
Just because you're a full-time programmer by day doesn't mean you can't look frickin' awesome while doing it! This beautiful laptop/everything backpack collaboration between KZO and Japan’s Ma...
Going BIG with AMD Eyefinity Multi-Displays
"More" seems never enough when it comes to computer specs and monitor real estate. And that's the thinking behind AMD's Eyefinity Multi-Display system, which sets out to bring a truly ultra hi-d...
Karim Rashid's The Touch Of Light Appliance Line for Gorenje
Karim Rashid has always remained a divisive figure in design, bringing out extreme words of praise or dislike in almost equal amounts. We've loved and hated his designs in equal amounts througho...
Colorful Command Key Clocks
Clocks that look like Crayola-colored, over-sized computer keys are the perfect accent to a raised-by-geeks kid's room—or the room of a grown-up big kid....
Waterproof iPod Stereo Case for Your Summer Pool Party
Every so often the postman drops off the Frontgate catalog (we once purchased some window film from them) and then we end up half an hour later thinking: 1) do we really need a a full size Hallo...
How To: Master iTunes 9 for the Audio Librarian
Even though we have our nitpicks about Apple's well.. Apple TV and Time Machine (we prefer if they combine them and turn it into a media server, you see), there are still some goodies with the latest ...
LG's AM-OLED TV Screen
While Gregory posted about Sony's super slim and super pricey $5,000 flat screen, LG just pwnd them by announcing the largest AM-OLED screen. She's 15-inches -- 4-inches bigger than Sony's own AM-OLE...
Why Not Go Vertical With Dual Monitors?
Think outside the box. Well, ok... computer monitors in any orientation are still going to be boxy, but why not try and stack your side-by-sides instead?...
Final Frame: Porcelain Speakers
Joey Roth's handmade speakers fashioned from "acoustically-dead" porcelain speakers, cork and maple plywood, available for $500....
New Ipod Nano Torn Down By Ifixit
It hasn't even been a day since the new iPod Nano became updated with a video camera, pedometer, and an FM tuner. Now iFixit has posted a complete teardown on this new iPod, to show you exactly what g...
The Nirvana Bathtub
It's the unofficial bathtub of Carl Sagan and star loving bathers everywhere. But instead of bathing under the stars, users get the sense of floating amongst them with the Nirvana bathtub's 360 LED li...
Apple's Slow Path Towards the Ultimate Home Media Server
Even with all the new Apple gadget and OS upgrades released recently, we couldn't help but wonder where all of the home focus has gone. Surely, we can't be all portability maniacs playing around with ...
LED Meets DIY Decor
New York Times
Yesterday's New York Times included this interesting article about incorporating LED lighting into home decor as an example of "the softer side of technology" amongst the DIY decor set, primarily abou...
The Gunnebo SecurePod
An honourable mention winner in this year's Red Dot Design 2009 competition, we don't think we've seen a home safe quite like this cartoonishly attractive SecurePod Safe. Made from rotationally ...
Use a Paper Clip and Only One Battery to Power a Remote
The remote died? You've only got one spare battery? Top Chef starts in 10 minutes? Well, sometimes you've just got to make do with what you have......
Augmented Reality Future by Nokia
Here's a video showcasing some of the future technologies dreamt up by telecommunications giant, Nokia, including gaze tracking eyewear and an interior window embedded display (and of course one of th...
Personalized Fridge Magnet Clock Helps Organize Your Chores
Clocks have many uses, but we find that they can be used quite well to organize a home. Instead of just relying on the time to do tasks, why not use a more fun way to organize chores and tasks in your...
How To: Fix a Stuck or Dead Pixel
Chances are sooner or later you'll experience the annoyance of a dead or stuck pixel on your display. You can always try to massage it back to life physically using a massage or tapping technique, but...
Underappreciated Home Tech: An Ode to the Kegerator
We spend a lot of time talking about the best televisions and grills and the other great home tech that can make a game-watching get-together into a serious party, but there's one great invention that...
Gresso USB Drives Get Exotic, Priced to Match
You like speed, do ya? Formula 1 carbon fiber type speed? Well, Gresso likes speed. Which is probably why they've dedicated their latest Grand Monaco collection solely to the art of overkill - in the ...
Roundup: Weird and Wonderful Gadget Holders
Our gadgets and gizmos tend to drift around the house, but we dream of a day when we can commit to one location for charging and storage. If that day ever comes, we might be tempted to create ...
What is the Best Video Game Ever?
As everyone's getting their Fantasy Football teams ready, the ladies at Geek Sugar are gearing up for a different sort of tournament......
Final Frame: Audio Equalizer T-Shirt
Be the life of the party, king of the geeks with a sound-activated equalizer T-shirt....
Bosch Tassimo: The Multipurpose Coffee Maker
When is a coffee maker more than a simple coffee machine? You can spend hundreds of dollars on the perfect coffee machine, espresso machines and whatnot, but if you are trying to find something simple...
Philips' Wireless HDMI Box Gets Official, Priced
We were a bit bummed after hearing about Belkin's Flywire unit got canned, but luckily Philips, maker of the wild 21:9 aspect ratio television set, has gladly decided stepped in to fill the missing wi...
Super Slim, Super Expensive Sony KDL-XBR10 LCD
The Sony KDL-XBR10 LCD has a lot going for it: a Kate Moss slim profile, native 1,920 x 1,080 resolution, wireless HD streaming, Motionflow 240Hz for smooth fast motion display, built-in video content...
Coway WM06 Converts Leftovers Into Powder
Coway's WM06 Food Waste Processor recently won an honourable mention in the annual Red Dot design awards, in the category of product design. The box looks like a fashionable PC, but in fact what it ac...
Computers in the Bedroom? Next to the Bed?!
It's usually a last-resort spot that's result of a too-small bedroom or an awkward floor plan. But are there any advantages to keeping the desk next to your bed?...
Priority Mail Virtual Box Simulator Reduces Shipping Guesswork
Sometimes guessing which box to use to ship can a crap shoot. But now you can determine which box is best suited for shipping using the USPS Virtual Box Simulator to project box holograms onto the ima...
iPod Nano Upgraded With Video, Radio, Pedometer and Mic
The star of the show today wasn't the iPod Touch as many expected (or AppleTV as we personally hoped), but the Marsha Brady of the Apple iPod family, the iPod Nano. The svelte player saw a huge upgrad...
iPod Prices Dropped Just Before Today's Big Apple Event
It's the 09.09.09 event date for Apple and in preparation for this, iPod prices have been lowered early this morning. It's Only Rock and Roll promised to be filled with interesting tidbits, but for no...
A Simple Desk Near the Door
Of all the places in your home to put a desk, you might not think about tucking it near the doorway. But after glancing at this image we found on Flickr, we might be switching over to using our worksp...
Unplggd's Sales Calendar
9.9.2009
THIS WEEK:
HOT! Western Digital My Book 1TB External USB 20 Portable Hard Drive for Mac - $65 (Was $90)
Toshiba 40RV525U 40 inch LCD HDTV (1080p) - $579.99 FS (Combine with Bing Cashback for even ...
Siemens discControl for Appliances
Siemens is all about user interface these days - first with their touchSlider induction cooktop and now their discControl technology ...
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Logitech Squeezebox Makes Internet Radio Stylish and Portable
We're huge fans of Pandora, and any way to get Pandora off our tiny computer speakers and blasting through something more substantial is a good thing. Logitech, yup the company known for their keyboa...
Lifehacker's Budget Conscious Home Office
We'd love to be able to do all of our shopping at boutique stores, picking up the latest, most original (and most expensive) designs. But the reality is, our homes are more about a mish-mash of hand-m...
Final Frame: The Old Robots
The Old Robots...a site dedicated to educational, toy and personal robots from around the world. Check out Amusement Corp's creepy Andrea Android. But we've still got a soft spot for Bob, Andy and Fre...
Funky Swedish Clock Displays Home Energy Usage
There are a bunch of ways of getting the skinny on what your energy consumption is. The trouble is that most of the time, these figures are displayed in numbers, or if you're lucky graphs. We think th...
A Great Example of Lighting Your Home Theater
Home Theater - Light Setup from msouza on Vimeo.
We'll pardon the spastic video editing stylization of this Vimeo piece uploaded by msouza, only because the video does a great job showcasing an excell...
Are You Biting Into 64-Bits?
Survey
We've heard arguments from both sides. Since Unplggd is all about the home, we certainly are curious how many readers out there are actually running on a 64-bit operating system on their home computer...
Adam's Wardrobe Home Office
Take a peek inside this space efficient home office tucked away inside a folded door closet, hiding a compact workstation composed of an Apevia X-QPACK Micro-ATX Case and a Samsung N310 netbook... ...
Tok and Study Makes Lazy Get Serious
We know it's not the most ergonomic way to type and surf the Web, but sometimes you just want to crawl into bed with your laptop and spend a lazy Sunday scouring Facebook and YouTube......
Ion USB Cassette Deck Helps Save Your Mixtapes
There are plenty of turntables available with USB connections to help convert your analog media into digital formats. But what if you've got audio cassettes mixtapes you'd like to transfer over for po...
If DIY-Laptop Customization Scares You Try Vinylville
School is starting and that new laptop that you got needs to be customized, otherwise it will just look like everyone else's. Apart from looking good, if it's tastefully done, you'll recognize your la...
LED Pin Lighting
The beauty of LED lights are their bright efficiency. A small bulb can light up a large area without using much energy, and that's the premise behind Korea designer Sungho Lee's LED Pin concept...
Timetable Puts a Limit on Meeting Time
You know the feeling of being the only guy who's checking his watch and realizing that the "quick 30-minute meeting" has been going on for about an hour with no signs of stopping. That won't hap...
iPhone Icons Meet Fridge Magnets
Okay, Apple lovers, we know you've already pimped out that sofa with OSX dock pillows, but what about Mr. Lonely Fridge in the kitchen? Perhaps these handmade iPhone icons clay fridge magnets made by ...
Fandi Meng: Sunny Flower
We're always on the go, and always on our cell phones. Our cell phone batteries always seem to be dying and when you're at the park or walking around the city, well, there isn't much you can do abo...
WiFi HD Turns Your iPhone and iPod Touch into a Wireless Hard Drive
What did you do this weekend? Oh yah. Cool. Well, I found the coolest iPhone/Touch app ever. Swear to God.
WiFi HD uses your wireless network to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into an external hard ...
Techie-to-Luddite Mail Made Easy
You'd rather do everything electronically, like sending party invitations and "We've moved!" address announcements by E-mail. But your grandparents and other non-techie friends and family still need y...
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