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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......

A Life Without Certain Technologies

Well, there I am...smack dab on the front of the Technology section of the New York Times site today. A few days ago I was interviewed by Times reporter Claire Miller about my cell phone-free lifestyl...

Skinning Your Kitchen Appliance

There are skins for MP3 players, laptops, cell phones and just about any other electronic device. It's a way to protect and express/customize what sometimes can be a dull affair. And now there's a w...

Elfa Shelving Houses Media Center Using Hardwood

We've posted many times about the genius of the Elfa shelving system. For people who don't want hulking billy bookcases storing all their sh--, um, stuff, the Elfa offers a solution with as much space...

OS X Dashboard Widgets For the Home Cook

I've rounded up a collection of useful widgets for the home cook that uses a Mac. From measurement conversions to reminders, you're sure to find these useful. Best of all, they are free!...

EcoSmart Fireplace Lets You Move Your Heat Around

So we're sitting here typing away with a comforter and furry slippers in an attempt to keep warm without turning on the heater. It's currently 38 degrees outside. I guess fall just got its ass kicke...

IMM Vulcan2GB Flash Drive is as Geek as You Can Get

Strange, weird, geeky...the IMM Vulcan USB 2GB Flash Drive is all these things. But it is possibly the perfect tech gift for the Trekker in your life (Christmas is just around the corner or offer it o...

RFID Papercraft Radios by Matt Brown

Matt Brown envisions offering laser cut paper radios with RFID tags to be invisible direct listeners to radio staions the musician, charity, brand or designer wants the listeners to hear. The concep...

Gyrofocus: The World's Most Beautiful Fireplace

There are quite a few things of beauty in this world, but none of them are in the shape of this fireplace, which simply looks amazing. Naturally, this design will split opinions, but all in all, we li...

A Grey Home Office that's Inspiring, not Dull

As you already know, October marks a time when Apartment Therapy looks for the most colorful room on the planet with our 2009 Room for Color contest. Here at Unplggd we've been rounding up gadgets in...

10/GUI: Are You Ready to Ditch the Keyboard and Mouse?

That's R. Clayton Miller's re-envisioning of the desktop human-computer interaction up above. What do you think? We like the ergonomics of a 1-to-1 ration 10 finger touchpad instead of a vertical to...

WikiReader: For Know It Alls or Know Nothings

This humble little square digital device is a the equivalent of carrying around a whole set of encyclopedias and then some, with over 3 million topics to peruse on a scratch resistant tempered glass...

Modern Batman? A Motorized Balcony

We're not sure if this is some upcoming trend of Batman-inspired motorized home modifiers, but it's definitely interesting to say the least. Bloomframe, a company based in The Netherlands, has recentl...

A 12-Year-Old's Sophisticated Workspace

Envy fuels ambition. But we're feeling a little let down by the fact that our own 20-something's humble workspace pales in comparison to the desk in this pic—the desk of a pre-teen Web designer....

The Geek Urn: Your Final Userspace

A traditional urn on the mantle? That's for boring people. When true geeks head up to that cyberspace in the sky, they leave their mortal selves behind on Earth inside classic computers....