Name: Edward
Location: San Francisco
Favorite other tech entry from the contest: My favorite other entry is #10, Matthew and Kimberly's Modern Organic. I felt it addressed the small space requirements beautifully and economically. The simple and sexy set-up didn't overwhelm the space with equipment and gadgetry. Plus I have the same television.
More photos below the jump...
This week, we are introducing all 4 of our Small Cool Tech Contest judges.
Name: Mark Wilkie
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Favorite weblink: Flickr
Profession: Uh, for AT, I am a contractor, so my title would be sir contractor, but you can just call me contractor.
Most Creative Tech Setup You've Ever Seen: This cordless (sort of) desk solution is pretty great.
This week, we are introducing all 4 of our Small Cool Tech Contest judges.
Name: Kate Mulinix
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Favorite weblink: AT's SCC 2006 is what started my obsession with AT, and the SCC's are still my favorite time to peek into amazing apartments and be inspired by what I see
Profession: Information Designer; Editor - AT:Home Tech; Party Planner Extraordinaire
Most Creative Tech Setup You've Ever Seen: Shauna's More Dash Than Cash because home tech is far more than the technology itself.
This week, we are introducing all 4 of our Small Cool Tech Contest judges.
Name: Ryan Opina
Location: Burnaby BC, Canada
Favorite weblink: Pandora
Profession: User Experience Design for Nokia Nseries
Most Creative Tech Setup You've Ever Seen: I have been quite impressed with a number of the entries for our inaugural Small Cool Tech contest. I could tell you now.....but we'll save that for the finals.
This week, we are introducing all 4 of our Small Cool Tech Contest judges.
Name: Kelly Goodman
Location: Seattle, WA
Favorite weblink: Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Country
Profession: Art Historian, Freelance Writer, Editor - AT:Home Tech
Most Creative Tech Setup You've Ever Seen: I really love the home of our latest Tech Tour subjects, Ethan and Amy. The integration of technology into their space was done with both function and aesthetics in mind. I think that they really encapsulate how technology should enhance our home and life, without having to detract from or dictate our home's style.
The twenty entries are up - now we're off to the finals.
Thanks very much to all who entered our first contest on AT:Home Tech. Whether A/V or office (or both!) your tech set-ups got us all thinking about what we can do at our own homes.
This week we'll be meeting our four judges and notifying the six finalists so they can put together their second entry (hopefully including a video!).
Stay tuned for more from your favorite entries and of course, the top three small cool tech solutions in the world...Good Luck to all!
We apologize! A bit of a gmail explosion occurred last night as lots of Small Cool spaces started flooding in...and a few may have bounced back.
Below the jump is a complete list of the entries received for the Smallest Coolest Tech contest by the editors...if you are not on the list and should be, please resend.
Name: Rene
Location: Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
A/V or Home Office: A/V
Favorite Source:
CNET is a great resource for tech reviews.
What inspired you?
We were inspired by museum minimalism when setting up the home theatre in our new flat. We use the plasma like a painting hanging on the wall to slideshow HD stills from galleryplayer.com and our laptop. We haven't gone BluRay/HDDVD yet but our setup pumps out an incredible HD image and fills up the room with great sound. The key to a small setup is using the best possible components, which might mean commercial instead of consumer grade. Splurge on the equipment and save money by doing the installation yourself (it's not that hard!).
Name: Kate
Location: Honolulu, HI
A/V or Home Office: Home Office
Favorite Source:
Why, Apartment Therapy, of course! Even if I can't afford or get anything featured on the site, I'll often ask myself "how can I replicate that?"
What inspired you?
I suppose I should say most of my inspirations come from my mother. She loves bold colors everywhere, and even in her office she always has bright clipboards, sticky notes, and highlighters--as a result, I love being surrounded by bright color everywhere. She also taught me to approach everything from unconventional angles, which is how I wound up with my entire filing system and cable storage climbing my walls.
Ready to step up and show off? Share your good ideas and great sense of style with the rest of us. Take three pictures of your home office or a/v system in all its glory and get an entry in to us by the end of the day Monday. Easy!
We've seen entries from three readers already...
Check them out, cast your vote and think about how you want to pull your entry together. We've got entry spots open and cool prizes burning a hole in our pocket.
All details are here. Good luck and get snapping!
Location: Portland, Oregon
A/V or Home Office: Both!
Favorite Source: CNET is where I go to figure out if a product I need has even been invented! About.com can be a useful site - it is where I found out about ORB AUDIO.
What inspired you? Tech gadgets should be useful but hidden. In the living room is a ROKU Soundbridge that streams music from my desktop to the stereo. The speaker are from ORB AUDIO and were selected for their small profile and the great reviews I read. The media cabinet (Soorikian Furniture) houses a receiver, dvd player and a center channel speaker. The cut-outs allow me to use the remote controls through the doors.
Contest Master here.
For my first major act as Contest Master, I hereby decree the new deadline for submissions to the 2007 Smallest Coolest Contest to be midnight (eastern standard time) Monday, April 16th.
While I know that many of you are waiting til tomorrow to submit your great small spaces, there are likely many others who haven't had the time to get it together.
We will still start posting entries next Monday, April 9th, and we will still start the voting then.
Please don't delay. Don't underestimate your talents. And don't worry. It'll be fun. Share your world with us. Enter your home, kitchen, nursery, or office/tech environment now!
If you have any questions, send them to contestmaster AT apartmenttherapy DOT com
Ok, so we figure you tech fans have nice cameras...why not use them this weekend to shoot a few pics of your home office or audio/video set up and enter our first ever Smallest Coolest Tech contest?
The prizes are apple-icious and the field so far is small, so chances of taking home one of the goodies is high - there's just one thing - the deadline is just a week away (April 6) so you'd better get on it!
We'd love to have a full inbox this Monday - all info is here.
Check out our Contest Page! The Smallest, Coolest Tech Setup Contest is a contest for all small apartments and homes under 1000 sf worldwide, who have an ingenious set up for either their a. home office or b. Audio/Video situation.
We are seeking the smartest, coolest, most organized (and beautiful) 20 submissions along with tips and resources we could all use to maximize our own home tech setup. We're taking submissions from now until April 6...prizes and details are below the jump...
An Apartment Therapy upgrade is in the works. Tommorrow we will launch our new comments system on AT:Home Tech. It will allow us to get rid of the comment codes and will give each reader an AT profile page which we will be adding features to as the system grows.
For more info, check out Maxwell's post here. We're excited to roll out this improvement. Look for it tomorrow and let us know what you think!
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