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T3's Readers Help Shape the Ultimate Netbook Tablet

Our friends over the pond at tech magazine T3 sent us this heads up about a project they've been working with their readers in the goal of designing the "best cutting edge smartbook/notebook", sport...

A Creative Solution to Desks Seen From Below

When organizing your desk to look clean and clutter-free, step one is to hide your cords by tucking them under the desktop where they won't be seen. Well, that's not so easy for our lofted readers....

And the Rest of Twitter's New Office

Just a moment ago, Taryn reported on her favourite element from the new Twitter Headquarters. We wanted to follow up with rest of their new office (they moved just around the corner from their old ...

"At" Symbol Marquee Light in the new Twitter Office!

We were loving this light fixture for the geeky-cool way it combines typography, rusted metal, marquee lights and our favorite keyboard symbol. Now we love it even more because we spotted it in Twit...

Dang! The Wall Art Crashed Again!

What if the art on your walls couldn't load? When asked to contribute a piece of art for his office reception, this hilarious super-geek came up with an automated real-life version of a Mac OSX not wo...

The Spica Speaker Merges Water and Sound

We weren't quite sure what Yuki Yamamoto's Spica speaker was all about when posted over at Moco Loco. But then we saw the video below the jump and it all started to make sense: it's an audio version o...

How to Hide Thermostats and Door Buzzers

Now this is brilliant. How many of you are living in rentals where your landlord decided to ruin a perfectly good wall with a thermostat smack dab in the middle of it? Our thermostat and door buzzer,...

Keeping a Chandelier Out of the Way of Projectors

You spend all your time and money pimping out your house with the hottest furnishings and most up-to-date tech you can find and how does Karma repay you? By making sure your expensive living room ligh...

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Conservation Restroom

When we were little ones growing up in drought prone California there was a hippy saying when hitting the loo, "If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down." We still adhere to that m...

Designed UPC Barcodes Are More Fun at the Checkout

A good product becomes a great product when the industrial designers are done making it functional and the really creative types get a chance to do it up with pure, unfiltered aesthetic design....

The LEGO Recharger: Manages Power and Keys

Docks and charging stations are necessary to keep your desk free of the usual clutter. The LEGO Recharger combines our love of LEGO bricks with the simple task of juicing up your gadgets in style. ...

Matthew's TV Console Turned Into Record Cabinet Conversion

Yesterday I posted a roundup of instructions showing my project that converted a free curbside find into a record storage solution. Reader matthewhambrick commented and shared his similar vintage DIY ...

VW Bus Goes from Turntable to iPod Speaker

The original VW bus record player came out in the 70s, dubbed Soundwagon. Now the camper graduates to the digital age, as a speaker plug-in for the iPod. Urban Outfitters is selling the revamp for $1...

Turn a Vintage Stereo Cabinet into a Headboard

We love to bring things home off the street. Cats, tossed out books, and furniture. We've been holding back from books and furniture for a while now, due to the increasing presence of bed bugs in NY...

What Are Your Tech Essentials?

Yesterday while visiting a loft for a house tour for our city sister site, Apartment Therapy Los Angeles, the person whose homes I was photographing and I began discussing the issue of accumulating th...

The 100" Multi-touch Table from Ideum

With a 86" viewable haptic touch screen with 2304x800 pixel resolution, this superwide multi-touch table was designed for the Space Chase Gallery at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville for vis...

Awesome Anechoic Chamber: McIntosh Laboratories, 1979

Looking at the Sound Egg Chair reminded us of some great retro images we saw from the 1979 construction of the anechoic chamber that McIntosh Laboratories used for testing their audio equipment....

Put a New Spin on Your Workspace Photos

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 go...

Modern Chair Made from an Old Radiator

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......

The Wilco Loft
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Our friends over at loftlife magazine just sent us some photos and information about one of their latest loft tours, this one showcasing the musical surroundings of the band Wilco (also posted over at...

Volta Batteries are the Sexiest Ever

Funny we should swoon over something as mundane as batteries. But we are, thanks to ACME Industries' colorful design for Volta batteries......

A Kid-Friendly Media Room

Oh mang! When we were little we never had a TV in our room, let alone a whole kids loft media room! Featured on Design*Sponge, this kid’s loft is found in the home of Rosy Levy. She designed the ro...

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...

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 ...

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......