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Final Frame When Fast is Not Fast Enough

Click above for larger image Average Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World by Zach Klein. How does your online connection at home compare? Looks like most of us are on the information superhighw...

Casa Familia: Eco-Tech Coastal Living
Tech Tour

Name: Casa Familia Location: San Diego, Calif. (Point Loma) Type: 1950 home Kevin wrote in to share this this "reinterpretation of quintessential Southern California courtyard houses", a coas...

FaceID Let's You Unlock Your Front Door With Your Face!

We know that biometric security, which involves scanning fingerprints or retinas, is quite common in banks and the like, but what if you could simply unlock your front door with your face? It's not li...

HP Incorporates Widgets Into Photosmart Printer

We just purchased a GPS unit, but prior we've had the habit of using Google Maps and printing out directions whenever we head out somewhere new (which is often, due to our love of roadtrips). Looks li...

Going Back to University Online...at Home!

It's been a rough year for a lot of us, including layoffs and pay cuts all around (including our household where our income was halved after a layoff). But for some, tough economic times can mean gold...

Philips Senseo Quadrante Coffee Maker

Designer Marcel Wanders worked with Philips to update their Senseo line of coffee pod appliances, resulting in in a minimalist space efficient form. We think the cube shaped coffee maker is a v...

Last-Minute DIY Halloween Decorations

Ok, if you're still not ready for Halloween, it's time to get moving. Buy some candy, put together a costume and use these DIY decoration projects as inspiration......

Potger Design Cubic Sound

Most of us use a dial or a mouse click to switch what we're listening to. But the Potger Design Cubic Sound MP3 player bucks tradition and focuses on a more physical action to switch tunes: flip the c...

Caso's Portable Induction Plate Lets You Cook Anywhere

There is always a use for a hot plate. Hot plates are old technology. The new types of portable cooking plate are using induction. Caso has just released a portable induction plate....

Jamo A804 Speakers with Scary SUB 800
Unplggd Test Lab

When we were kids, we had a pair of Jamo speakers that were probably the worst we have ever owned. Maybe just a notch above some speakers that came shrink-wrapped to a magazine bought in Spain...

THREE DAYS REMAINING!
Can You Give $5 to Help Support Public Schools?

• Donations: $3,514 • Goal: $10,000 • Donors: 40 We have teamed up with the DonorsChoose.org and other top blogs and during the month of October we're asking you to help us buy mu...

Create a Small Floating iMac Workspace With Ikea Shelves

Some people argue that they need a big desk with a lot of surface space to pay bills and file things away. But others, myself included, know we don't need all that extra table space......

Roundup: Three of the Year's Best Pro Cans

Something that tends to go hand-in-hand with our love for merging design and technology is our undeniable addiction to headphones. Luckily, Cnet has rounded up their top 3 picks for headphones of...

Moto Designshop Designs a House with an Elevator Garage

One of the worst ways to wake up it to realize that your car isn't parked in the appropriate alternate side parking spot. You rush out, jammies still on, eyes still crusted over, and then drive aroun...

Foldable Kitchen Scale for Your Weighing Needs

No, we've never actually needed a kitchen scale in our lives. But one day, we will and we will absolutely wish we had such a cool, foldable kitchen scale as this one......

Final Frame A Desk for Private Personalities

We don't like people looking over our shoulders when we're on the computer, so Copenhagen designers GamFratesi's Rewrite desk is a-okay in our book....

Andrew's Ingenious Floating Monitor Home Office
Tech Tour

Name: Andrew Flynn Location: Chandler, Arizona Type: Home office When we saw Andrew Flynn's amazing home office, we knew that we had to do a tech tour of his place. The great DIY features rea...

Shop Goodwill Online For Tech Steals

If you have ever shopped at a thrift store for deals, you know that it's a hit and miss operation. Some stores have great selection while others don't. But what happens when Goodwill moves its invento...

DMO's Iconic Flat Light

While this may not be the first time we've seen the flattening of light fixtures around the home, Korean-based DMO design group has their own take on the graphic icon-inspired lamp. Not only does...

Preventing Vampire Energy at the Twist of an Socket

Plugs, sockets and outlets seem to be on the mind of many industrial designers these days, with new ideas that make pulling them out or plugging into them easier. Or designs that try to minimize their...

The $8 IKEA Parts Netbook Stand

You've got you pint sized netbook but are missing a stand for optimal viewing while you hook up a full size keyboard and mouse for work beyond surfing the web? Kathleen Henri has posted a tutorial at ...

Computer-Monitor-as-TV-Screen Done Right!

Yeah, yeah. We're always hearing about how your home computer—with it's DVD drive and connectivity to Hulu and Netflix—can completely replace your TV screen and cable box. We've jus...

The Microwave Alternative: The Breville Smart Oven

Emily and I have had a microwave-free kitchen for nearly 8 years now (minus the short time we tested a microwave a little while ago), but we've discovered there's a kitchen appliance that better suits...

Verizon Unveils the Droid Phone by Motorola

After weeks of those iDon't commercials, Verizon finally released details of the Droid phone yesterday, launching a flurry of press on the possibility that this mobile convergence device could finally...

Halloween Tech, Recycling Gear, LED Hype & Solar Chargers
Unplggd Slinks for 10.29.2009

10 Ways to Celebrate Halloween With Tech : GeekSugar's list of spooky-tinged tech touches for the holiday. How-to: recycle your old gadgets: Engadget list of electronics manufacturers, wireless carri...

Signorini Rubinetteri: Ceiling Mounted Faucet

We really hate when we visit local stores and every faucet looks to have been created equally. While there's nothing wrong with run of the mill faucets; we're slightly more interested in the more i...

Are You a Power Vampire? There's an App for That

Just in time for Halloween, we spot this ghoulishly-themed iPhone and iPod Touch App that's gearned towards a most frightening concept: You might be throwing away money on vampire power!...

Belkin Recall on 68,700 Surgemasters

Recalls are never a pretty thing, but luckily this one is optional. Well, optional in a sense it won't spontaneously combust and take the whole house down with you, but the reason for the recall is be...

The Office Rainn Wilson's New Man Cave

We love Rainn Wilson. His Dwight on The Office is amazing. Ah-May-Zing! While his character works in one of the most blah working environments at Dunder-Mifflin, Rainn has quite the nice home office ...

Take Care When Flying With Gadgets

Flying restrictions have made taking trips away from home safer than ever (even if a little more frustrating). But the New York Times is reporting that there's still one last unrestricted flight fire ...

Final Frame: A Radio For Treehuggers

A Radio For Treehuggers, made with 80% real oak, designed by Solène Le Goff & Christophe Gouache....

Wi-Fi Enabled and Dual Display Motorola Photo Frames

Motorola is mostly known for their cellular devices, but you may be surprised to know they also make home electronics like digital photo frames. It's okay, we didn't realize it either. So you know, he...

Incredibly Beautiful Silver Art Small Appliances By Rowenta

There is something really nice about having beautifully designed and functional small kitchen appliances. Let's be honest, you use them a lot and it's only fair that they look great. We've rarel...

Skin and Customize Your iPod With Your Own Designs

Whether you've got an iPhone, iPod, and Nano, the iaPeel offers you the ability to customize your handheld device with a skin sporting a design of your making using your inkjet printer, a provided tem...

A Selection of Technology Related Artwork from 20x200.com

A few days back the New York Times BITS blog highlighted 20x200, an online art gallery extension of a brick and mortar exhibition space in downtown New York that offers limited editions of prin...

Frigidaire 66 Bottle Wine Cooler

Aimed at oenophiles, this 66 bottle capacity Frigidaire Wine Cooler provides ample space for everyone except the most extreme wine drinker. Specs include frost free cooling, interior light, electronic...

Sync Facebook Events With Google Calendar

Until Google takes over the world (Just wait—it'll happen), you're still going to have disparate groups of friends who use different online tools to manage their world......

The Nobo Firepit Electric Radiators With LED Flame

Remember the Fortress of Solitude in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies? If Supey was decorating his far north hideaway, we'd think the Nobo Firepit Electric Radiator, complete with LED flame, woul...

Xbox Live Getting Streaming Sky TV More Coming Soon?

With Netflix coming to a PS3 near you, we were left wondering what would happen to the Xbox 360. Most Xbox 360 owners are already using their consoles to stream media from their computers, but how abo...

5 Mattress Heating Pads That Will Keep You Warm This Fall

Brrrr...autumn arrived in unexpected fashion here in California with cold northern gusts knocking down power lines, snapped cables on the Golden Gate Bay Bridge and dropped temps 20 degrees ove...

2010 Olympic Gold Made Out of Old Circuit Boards
From Metal to Medal

Vancouver won its bid to host the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and they're rolling out all the punches. It's Ottawa Mint facility has already produced all 615 gold, silver and bronze medals for the...

GP400n iPod Speaker

Ever been somewhere and need to listen to your iPod Nano and don't have headphones? Well then you better listen up, because this pertains to you!...

A Simple Media Center With Seamless Surround Sound

We love the sound we get from our surround sound speakers. But with the curse of being a renter, it's always tough to lay out the speakers and still keep everything looking fresh......

Unplggd's Sales Calendar
10.28.2009

THIS WEEK: HOT! Panasonic TC-L32X1 32" Widescreen 720p LCD HDTV - $321.99 (using 8% Microsoft Cashback) EVEN HOTTER! Logitech diNovo Edge Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard (Mac Edition) - $69.99 (Was $1...

Inspiration: Deltalab Recording Sutdio

DeltaLab Recording Studios, "the world's first designer recording studio", was founded in 2001 by 19 year old Thomas Troelsen and has recorded the likes of Bryan Adams. In 2007, they upgraded a...

Technicolor: Gold

Ah gold. The color of luxury. Luckily, even though gold plating is on the pricey side, plenty of gadget manufacturers have figured out how to give their products some bling bling without chargin...

The Green Go-To Guide for Gadget Recycling

Nobody hates the environment. It's just that some of us have a hard enough time worrying about ourselves and our families to think about caring for Mother Nature 24 hours a day. But that's where Unplg...

Final Frame MultiTouch Sequencer & Sphere

The MultiTouch Sequencer & Sphere at London Digital Week....

Cheap & Energy Efficient Ways to Winterize Your Apartment

Winter will soon be upon us and temperatures are starting to plunge for most of us. Unless you're living in California or Florida, you'll soon be getting ready to see some snow, if you haven't already...

Dell Introduces a Windows 7 Ready, Multi-Touch Display

Look ma, we can pinch and zoom! Swipe to reveal jump lists! For those who are looking for a "complete," visceral Windows 7 experience, Dell proposes you grab one of their new 22-inch LCD monitors...

The Labyrinth Aquarium

We've always been nerds about aquariums, terrariums, and vivariums. There's something both satisfying and relaxing about self-contained eco-systems, with their special lighting, heating and wat...

Glasses for Screen Addicts Force You to Blink

I like to call 'em "Guitar Hero Eyes." It's that feeling you get when you focus your eyes on a complicated screen for too long. It always happens to me watching those colored notes slide down the LCD ...

A Modern & Baby-Proof Home Office Computer Desk
Reader Questions

Unplggd reader Jenya from New York City had the following question: I am looking for a computer desk. My husband works from home from a home office. And we also have a small baby at home running up t...

SimpliSafe Home Security System
Unplggd Test Lab

Product: SimpliSafe Security System Price: $249.99/$299.99 Rating: Strong Recommend* For apartment dwellers, home security usually means a couple of strong deadbolt locks, perhaps a mean Germa...

Can you give $5?
Help Us Support Public Schools in October!

• Donations: $1,991 • Goal: $10,000 • Donors: 130 We have teamed up with the DonorsChoose.org and other top blogs and during the month of October we're asking you to help us buy m...

The Knoll Generation Chair
Test Lab

Product: Knoll Generation Chair Designer: Formway Design Price: Starts at $777 Rating: Recommend* Maxwell and Sara Kate have been sitting in the new Generation Chair for the past month, and t...

GuyPhone! The Fully-Functional iPhone Costume

Just when we thought that being a video of yourself on YouTube was a brilliant idea for Halloween, we spot these two and their oversized, but fully functional, iPhone costumes......

Are You a Tech Minimalist?
Survey

Last week we saw Gregory featured on the New York Times, where he spoke candidly about living minimally with tech (in his case, life sans the cellular). Though primarily due to a constrained budget at...

Tetris Chair

We've posted about Tetris inspired furniture before, but we're pretty sure this chair takes it to the next level. It also seems to be taking influence from another popular toy in the '80's. We're ...

Now Google Voicemail Works with Your Number

Google sure is trying their hardest to make every aspect of our lives easier, huh? Any feature you could ever want from the internet is available in their sites (Do we sense Google Porn coming soon?)....

Final Frame Color Your Gaming Experience

The PS3 Slim in custom colors to complement the rest of your decor, via ColorWare. We think the machines take a whole new life and appeal with the assortment of pearl, solid and metallic hues......

Juice Up Your iPhone The Green & Stylish Way

It's a common fact that you need to recharge your iPhone or iPod, no matter what. Usually, this involves plugging it into a USB plug or a power plug. Well, there have been quite a number of alternativ...

Colourful Bodum Bistro Flatbed Toaster Line

We've posted about Bodum's colourful line of kitchen appliances, including their toaster and tea kettles. Now Bodum has added a flatbed toaster available in 8 different colours and that takes care of ...

Good Posture Equals More Energy and Taking Time Offline
Unplggd Slinks for 10.26.2009

Better Posture Means More Energy at Work: Lifehacker (and Unplggd contributor) Sarah Rae Trover points out Real Simple's claim sitting with proper posture at your computer can help you breathe more ef...

Netflix Coming for PS3 in November

This is pretty great news for us PS3/Blu-ray holdouts, as we've yet to jump onto the bandwagon of either technology/media serving device due to too many limitations of each device by themselves. But w...

Are You Planning Techie Halloween Costumes?

With less than a week until that costume-fest that is Halloween, you should have your costume all lined up. It's easy to go for a sexy cop outfit or to be the thousandth guy that's dressed as 'Swine F...

Byrd & Belle Wool Felt and Leather iPod Case

Cambria over at our green-tinged site Re-Nest posted about these handsome 100% felted merino wool and leather iPod cases from etsy seller Byrd & Belle that look like an offering from J. Crew ra...

Two Great DIY Floating Wall Ideas

Here are two inspiring DIY projects created by AVForums member "SparksCW" for his bedroom that use a 9mm MDF for a floating LED back lit headboard with a dimmer feature, alongside an opposite f...

BlackBerry Watch

We have all heard the rumors and we didn't know how much more we could take. But alas! The word has officially come out: BlackBerry is releasing a watch in February 2010....

Re-Nest's 14 Ways to Warm Up Without the Heat On

Here at Unplggd, we love to talk about gadgets and gizmos and shiny things that go "whirrrrrr" in the night. But we're also about helping you save electricity......

Mimo Mini USB Monitors Make a Comeback

Add some extra screen estate to your laptop setup with one of four Mini USB Monitors from Mimo. Though we introduced the Mimo line earlier last year, we noticed they made a disappearing act halfway th...

Technicolor: Brown

Brown has been used in electronics as far back as we can all remember. Our homes all had giant speakers with wood grain veneer wrapped around them. Thank goodness the brown and wood grain ele...

Sonoro Eklipse
Unplggd Test Lab

Product: Eklipse Designer: Sonoro Price: $499.99 Rating: Weak Recommend I live in a 300 square foot studio, yet I have a stereo amp that could fill a large dance club -- 770 watts. Despite all that ...

A Plug Designed to Make Us Think About Power

No matter how passionate you are about being green, it's still a tough effort. But its often hard to ignore something staring you in the face. Just like how it's easy to recycle with a recycling bin i...

Why We Love Windows 7 and USB Hubs Worth Plugging In
Unplggd Hot Posts

Ten Best Looking USB Hubs We Can Live With Why Not Carve a Geeked-Out Pumpkin? 8 Ingenious Ideas We're Totally Stealing 10 Things We Love About Windows 7...