apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

If there's one thing we love more than designing and building beautiful spaces to work and watch in, it's taking pictures of the spaces when they're all said and done. What's the point in making it gorgeous if you're not going to show it off in a tech photo tour?

Not us, that's for sure. Why not be a tech rebel and scream out from your urban dwelling, "I will not be ashamed to show off my Electric Man power strip! I will not hide my cords any longer!"

When you're finally getting to the register with that shiny LCD TV that is going to look oh-so-good on your living room console, your biggest worry won't be how you're paying for it or whether it's got the right pixel response time. Your biggest fret will be whether to say yes or no to the extended warranty...

As we make the transition from the breast-cancer-awareness-supporting pink month of October to the mens-issues-are-a-growing-concern moustache'd Movember, we see that gadgets are following suit.

When you're shopping for a new LCD screen for the media room, you'll have numbers flying at you left and right. If you're the average consumer and have no idea what a pixel response time is, you'll probably just go for the latest, priciest model thinking that cost equals value. But if you consult this New York Times' article, that's not the best M.O....

No matter how well you organize your closet or how early you plan the week's outfits, unexpected weather can put a glitch in your morning, drive you crazy and—worst of all—make you late...

We've seen tons of designers do their thing and make working radiators look oh-so-cool. But one designer in the Netherlands had his eye on a broken radiator...

We talk about apartments—a lot. But for those of you super-travelers who seem to live in your car, here's a tech solution for powering your gadgets...

Sure it looks silly, with three lamp-handed tentacles stalking over a palm tree and couch, but is it a good idea to keep both plant and owner happy?

To be honest, we're loving the fact that designers finally see the potential for kitchen range hoods—which we're forced to stare at while we make dinner—to do double-duty in the kitchen...

As if we weren't already missing the flash on our now-broken Blackberry for it's main function, now we figure our that there's an app that can make it useful around the house, too...

We spotted this Nintendo DSi case—designed to maximize the built-in camera with an 8x optical zoom—over at OhGizmo!, and ever since then we can't help but wonder if we'll never need to carry a digital camera again...

Those little Flip Video cameras make shooting and uploading Web videos portable, compact and easy—even letting you upload from the camera straight to Facebook. But Flip is taking a stab and doing the same simplicity makeover to our living room TVs...

These ties might look ordinary. But within the weave is a blend of 50 percent colored thread and 50 percent actual recorded audio cassette tape. And get this: You can play the ties with a DIY sonic fabric reader...