Final Frame: The Pixel Bulb
Marcus Tremonto's Pixel Bulb, a 2D electroluminescent electronic paper light source....
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The Awesome Star Wars LEGO Chess Set
We don't know what's cooler: the fact that this is a LEGO chess set or that it's actually a Star Wars LEGO chess set. Having a chess set around is always interesting. In an age where most of us spend ...
A Home Theater in a 300 Square Foot Apartment
Most people would resign themselves to watching movies on their computer or head off to that old fashioned cinema theater if they lived in a 300 sq. ft. student studio. But home theater enthusi...
ELAC's De Stijl Edition Speakers and Subwoofer
From those crazy Germans who last brought us the Rubik's Cube subwoofer, the De Stijl artwork of Piet Mondrian is the latest source of inspiration for Electroacustic's newest line of speakers and subs...
iPhone Pretending NotePod
The Notepod is an example of faux tech...posing as an iPhone or iPod at quick glance, the 60 x 110mm 100 sheet graphed notepad can't serve up music or your email, but offers an amusing way to p...
Obama Loves Laptop Stickers Just like Us!
Laptop stickers can look messy, but if you do it right (like this clean and refined circle sticker collage we featured) it can really add a fun look to a boring machine. Or is could give your MacBook ...
Electrolux Design Lab 2009 Winner Crowned
Possibly our favourite annual home appliance and electronics competition, the Electrolux Design Lab 2009 came to conclusion in London last night, with a winner announced: Rickard Hederstierna's Cocoon...
Vue Personal Video Network: Easy Home Security
It's always prudent to install some kind of security system in your pad or home. It's not just for rich or people with big houses. It's for everyone. For example, if you've got pets and you want to ch...
Inspired by Design: Nissan 370Z Roadster
We have a little design fetish here at Unplggd.com. We love all things bright and beautiful, as long as they do something that enriches our lives. We've noticed a trend recently in design that we thin...
Dealing with the Television
from Apartment Therapy House Tours
The television is the bane of many otherwise well-thought-out living spaces. The problem is compounded when you're dealing with tight spaces, as every little move packs a punch in a small apart...
Big is the New Small: Edison the Grand Lamp
With gadgets, the coolest, baddest thing is almost never the biggest. We like our cell phones, laptops and music players to be as compact as possible. But sometimes, big is beautiful......
Wacom Adds Multi-Touch to Bamboo Tablets
Gesture enthusiasts rejoice! Multi-touch support has finally hit the Wacom Bamboo line (as seen in Gregory's home office tour), allowing you to pair up your artistic talents with a huge touch-pad for ...
Michael Jackson's Technological Feat from the Grave
Try it at Home!
In Michael Jackson's 50 years on the planet, he reinvented dance, song, and the art of collecting arcade games, but even now, after his death, he's still reinventing. Kraken Opus publishers have rece...
A Few Famous Workspaces...
Us lowly folk love to oogle at pictures and slideshows of beautiful, perfect (mostly staged) desks and workspaces—isn't that why you're here?!? So we found a little extra eye candy for you: Nine...
Final Frame: The Perfect Little Corner
MacGeek13's laptop floating desk is an exemplary example of minimalist efficiency....
Are You Wondering Which Ebook Reader to Get?
Fall is here and students are back in school. Ebook readers are here to stay and they embody the modern reinterpretation of books The Kindle isn't the only good ebook reader available anymore. Sony an...
Matthias Pugin's Cube Table
Matthias Pugin's Cube Table: press down to reveal storage. Press again to hide away.
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Pantone Color Library App for iPhone
Looking for the entire selection of Pantone swatches all in one portable, user-friendly solution? Yep, there's an app for that. In addition to having the entire color library at your fingertips, the m...
Modular Light Screen Room Divider
Got a large room you'd like to subdivide for privacy or partition off to create a home office area? Here's a modular PVC wall divider system that can connect up to 5 screens while also powering a buil...
Omer Arbel's 22 Series Electrical Wall Accessories
Omer Arbel did something so wonderful no-brainer with his electrical wall plug designs: he made them circular. By just changing the standard outlet from the normal recognizable shape into a cir...
DIY LED Indicator Tells You When the Garage is Open
Those nights spent sitting up in bed wondering if the garage door is open will be a thing of the past if you put this DIY project to work in your home......
Change Your Speaker Like Artcoustic's Crystal Line
Speakers tend to be big and black. In order to look good, you got to get creative. It's kind of amazing what some high-end speaker companies are able to do with their speakers. For example, the Artcou...
The Framed Entertainment Center
Here's an interesting take on "framing" your entertainment center posted over at IKEA Hacker. A submission from Tien showcases a DIY project utilizing 4 Lack long shelves, 2 Lack side tables and some ...
Beds For Men: It's a Man's World, Women Just Sleep in it
The Wall Street Journal
Are men and women that different when it comes what they want in a bed? We'll leave what they want in bed to another blog. Apparently bed manufacturers think so; there's a whole new section of...
Apartments Pre-Fitted with Solar Panels?
When scoping out potential apartments, we expect to see some standard appliances in most every unit: Refrigerator, Oven and a Dishwasher, if we're lucky. But the best apartments—the ones that ge...
Kensington Joins Docking Station Boat, Sans Wireless
If Toshiba's Wireless U docking station seemed a bit out of reach at $300, perhaps Kensington HD Universal Docking Station may sound like a better fit for all you budget desktop conversion aficionados...
HP DreamScreens
We still have paper photographs displayed in frames around the house, but the urge to declutter has us looking seriously at digital options to reduce the number of frames without retiring any of the...
Nintendo Drops Price of Wii Console to $199
Seriously, the Wii has revolutionalized gaming. Video games were once thought of as a single-person hobby enjoyed mainly by teenaged boys. But the Wii, with it's variety of multi-player, get-off-the-c...
Final Frame: Diesel Turntable Bedding
Diesel Turntable Bedding, part of their Diesel Lifestyle Home Textile Collection....
Lenovo C100 All-In-One: The 400-dollar iMac
Even though most of you are slowly getting on the laptop bandwagon, there is still a need for smart-looking desktops. As desktops go, the all-in-one format championed by Apple's iMac is hard to beat. ...
Re(al)view: T3 Bespoke Featherweight Hair Dryer
We've always considered the hair dryer a necessary evil. It's a useful tool to be sure, but the heat can cause damage, dullness, and frizz, not to mention worries about excessive energy consump...
The Little Horn Speakers
At 36” height and and with an opening over 14” across, these phonograph-era style speakers make it very clear they're not ordinary audio equipment by any means. Designed to work with almost...
Architectural Furniture Kitchen and Office in a Box
Structure of Architectural Furniture was designed by Toshihiko Suzuki for Kenchikukagu for small space living in Japan and anywhere else where square footage is at a premium. The three designs ...
How to Shorten an Ethernet Cord
This DIY project requires a few special tools, but the good news is that they're cheap and oh-so-worth-it if you're desperate for a just-right length of ethernet cord, Goldilocks....
SmartChef Next Gen Kitchen PC
The SmartChef by Kaiju Studios hints at what designers imagine what the future's kitchens may look like. A finalist in Microsoft's Next-Gen PC competition, the SmartChef is comprised of a large...
AT&T's MicroCell Gets 3G Service to iPhones Everywhere
The iPhone is exclusive to AT&T, this isn't really news to anyone. However, the spotty 3G service has been a pain for a lot of iPhone users, especially in their homes. We all know the reason: AT&T's n...
Digital BBQ Tongs Come Equipped with LCD & LED
W.W.B.F.D. (what would Bobby Flay do?) when faced with some late evening grilling, when it's difficult to see whether your ribs or chicken are properly cooked on the grill. Well a decent grill master ...
N900 Rolodex Machine
One part new tech combined with another part old school and you've got the N900 Rolodex machine that takes advantage of the Bluetooth capabilities of the Nokia device to track exactly which contact ...
Colored Tape to Label Cords is an Easy Fix
Sometimes the easiest solutions are the hardest to come up with. Case in point: Using color-coded tape to label our most-used plugged-in cords. A brilliant, low-impact, no-brainer idea that we've neve...
Unplggd's Sales Calendar
9.23.2009
THIS WEEK:
Sony PSP Go Handheld System Pre-Order (w/ code: 6FWJ247J1P44CK) - $213 (Was $250)
Lenovo C300 1.60GHz, 1GB, 20.0" All-In-One PC (w/ code: USPC300AU) (Exp. 9/23) - $300 (Was $450)
PS3 S...
Automated Cabinetry by Anvil Motion
Anvil Motion is the first touch screen activated cabinetry. Want to open all your kitchen cabinets at once? No problem. These cabinets come with touch activated drawers, motion-sensitive cabin...
PIZZONI Backpack BBQ Grill
The PIZZONI aluminum case is just about every man's dream come true...at least any man worth his weight in perfectly grilled meat. The compact case opens up to reveal your own mini-kitchen, a charcoal...
Gizmodo Gallery Preview
Last night, gadget blog Gizmodo opened up it's Gizmodo Gallery in NYC to the press. Unplggd went to check out what vintage, new, and concept tech they had on display and took a few photos of our...
Lifehacker's Workspace Favorites
Even when you think you've got everything you need to run your own stylish and efficient workspace, along comes a list of cool gizmos and gadgets to make you realize that you need to take a shopping t...
Final Frame: Courier
You're going to want to veer over to Gizmodo and check out the details about the Courier, Microsoft's Secret Tablet concept. We're praying it's real and coming to market, as we love the Moleskine-st...
Bird Electron Dice Speakers
These Bird Electron Dice Speakers (45mm squared) were designed specifically for mini sized flash drive MP3 players like the iPod Shuffle and Sony NW-E005's. Don't expect to rock the party with one of ...
Retro Game Room Mashups: Digital Foosball!
What happens when you take one of the coolest things you can throw into your home - the foosball table, make it completely electronic, and toss in an awesome space theme? The digital Space Foosball Ta...
Teddy Bear + Digital Photo Frame = DIY Project
To be honest, Unplggd reader Siobhan's DIY teddybear scares the heck out of us, perhaps because we were always bit wary about Teddy in the movie A.I.. But from a tech standpoint, it's a pretty cool DI...
Strukt Design Studio's Digital Wallpaper
More projector madness, this time a wall display created for the office of Büro Hirzberger using vvvv, a real time video toolkit and a digital projector to create a full motion digital wallpaper that...
Chair from an Old TV?
Why go 'out with the old,' like the old saying says? You could just take the old, knock its screen out and add some shag carpeting... now you've stuck with the old, turning it into something new that ...
Optoma HD20 First Sub-$1000 1080p HD Projector
A couple years ago, after months of research, we splurged and purchased a peach of a deal: a DLP HD projector. It changed our home movie viewing experience a thousand fold (and it was a crazy g...
The Ultimate DIY Dorm Desk
Depending on what your home office situation is like, you'll most likely need a big desk. We've had a bunch of different desks, but none of them had the features of this DIY desk, which was actually m...
BiUbe Pure Aquarium
Not everyone has a spare Apple G4 Cube case lying around, so there's the BiUbe Pure Aquarium for those of you who like to keep fish and other aquatic life on their desktop, complete with an adv...
Pawnee Media Console by Shimna
Shimna recently updated their rustic moden low media console with colourful front panels with Corian inserts, for easy open/close action so you can get to your media collection within. Availabl...
The Big TV Screen and Small Mobile Screen Are in Cahoots!
One of our favorite things about the internet is how easy it is to see something cool, then to buy it or share it with friends. With 'Buy Now' buttons and 'Post to Facebook' links, communication is a ...
Toshiba Introduces Wireless Docking Station for Laptops
Many of us have been waiting for a reasonably-priced wireless HDMI streaming solution to hit the consumer market for quite some time now. It hasn't happened yet, and it probably won't any time soon. L...
Common Fixes for Common Appliance Mishaps
Real Simple
This month, Real Simple has a great piece on how to know if you can fix a major appliance that's having issues and when to call in the big guns. The story looks at common ailments of refrigerators, s...
Pure Sensia Radio Features WiFi and a Touchscreen
Remember when radios used to just tune in to your favorite station and play music? Well now that traditional FM radio has so many musical competitors for our sonic attention—Pandora, Satellite r...
Final Frame: Obscura CueLight Pool Table
Obscura CueLight Pool Table, from the Esquire ultimate bachelor pad in NYC....
Electrolux Powerglide: Vacuums Any Surface
At Unplggd, we love vacuum cleaners. Why? They keep our pads nice and clean. You know as well as we do that even though vacuum cleaners aren't made to work on all surfaces, you still use them to get r...
Jeff Smith's Fold-up Treadmill Design
Home gym equipment not only costs a pretty penny, but items like treadmill and indoor bikes can take up a lot of room (and let's be honest here, most gym equipment is eventually stored away for good a...
Penguin Soda Maker by SodaStream
Just days after I'd gotten deep into replacing our cans of fizzy water at the office with an entry level SodaStream soda maker (which I really like), Sara, Ursula and I visited with friends for the we...
AmazonBasics Private Label Store
Looks like Amazon is setting to take on ultra-discount consumer electronics accessories retailers like Monoprice.com with their new private label, generic packaged AmazonBasics. The selection includes...
Will You Be Buying a Netbook to Use Airplane Wi-Fi?
We buy our machines tailored to our home workspace. A desktop for the always-upright type, or a laptop for the sometimes-my-couch-is-my-desk type. But what about the desk-away-from-home-in-the-sky typ...
Re(al)view: The Electrolux UltraSilencer Green Canister Vacuum
Reviewers: Emily and Robert, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Product: The UltraSilencer Green Canister Vacuum
Designer: Electrolux
Price: $299
Rating: Recommend*
When Cambria suggested that my Manhatt...
How to Access Your Home Files From Anywhere
It's becoming easier and easier to just store your files in the cloud. By cloud, we mean online. For example, a lot of people are now using Google Docs as an easy way to store their files. This makes ...
MyPhones Volume-limiting Headphones for Kids
MyPhones are headphones designed for kids to use with the safety of their eardrums in mind. A built-in, always-on sound-control circuit plays the digital role of "concerned mom" by capping off the lou...
Connect Work and Home Machines with iTwin
Why is everything branded with an 'i' these days? We don't know. But what the iTwin lacks in naming creativity, it more than makes up for in usefulness. Think of it as the remote desktop taken to anot...
Timbuk2 Q: The Commuter's Messenger Backpack
Whether you're a working class hero or messenger bag slinger on the go, we all know daily comfort plays a huge part for all you commuters out there. Luckily, Timbuk2, known for their stylish and ...
DIY Your Own Star Trek Bridge Chair
Think of the Burke 115 chair as the cousin to the more traditional favorite, the Saarinen Tulip Chair. Similar in shape, but sporting a different base and slightly different back, this chair is a pe...
Old Wooden Filing Drawers as Media Center
We love any creative alternative to the standard TV table. From vintage pressure mounted cabinet turned into a home for the TV to basic bookshelves. Our faves are the vintage finds, like this collect...
Plug In the Right Way, Every Time with a Spot of Glue
We love Lifehacker's readers for genius little tips like these: Have you ever reached to plug your cell phone in to charge in the middle of the night and had the power cord connector oriented the wron...
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