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Posts tagged “Surveys”

Survey: How Bad Is your Spam?

A recent New Scientist issue charted data on how much of our inboxes are filled with spam and how much arelegitimate emails. We wanted to know, what your inboxes look like and what you do to keep spa...

Survey: Does the Eco-Friendliness of a Gadget Influence Your Choice?

More and more we are seeing mentions of 'green' and 'eco-friendly' in the marketing of electronics. Hard drives and even mobile phones are getting the green treatment. So we wanted to ask the quest...

Survey: Will You Be Picking Up a 3G iPhone

Now that you have had a few days to think about it, are you sold or has it gotten old? All these people are either tired of their current iPhones or simply making space for the next one so it got us...

Survey: Is Techie Carrie Bradshaw More Fashionable than her Luddite Counterpart?

Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw has always been a bit of a Luddite. It took Miranda getting knocked up for the fashionista to finally get a cell phone. She had an old and teeny CRT television in h...

Survey: Do You Frame in Digital?

Digital picture frames are a curious invention. While an interesting concept for the digicam age, it's something we just can't seem to get our heads around. We've done roundups of the top ten displays...

ICFF: Geneva Lab's Latest Furniture Music

Despite only being a prototype, we made a beeline for this beautiful media center as soon as we walked into the International Contemporary Furniture Fair yesterday. Designed by Geneva Lab, who made th...

Survey: Could Wii Fit Replace Going to the Gym?

It appears that Wii Fit is selling like hotcakes in Europe, selling out in 24 hours on Amazon.co.uk. With gaming consoles and the Wii in particular making its way into more and more living rooms cou...

Survey: Mousepad or No Mousepad?

After taking a look at the recent Flickr Finds, we noticed a lot more people are tossing away their mousepads and using their mice right on their desks. This got us thinking. ...

Survey: Does Having Two Screens Improve Productivity?

Here's one for you. I have always had two monitors at work, but I really can't convince myself I have increased efficiecy at all despite having such a set-up. Do you think having dual displays increas...

Survey: How Much RAM Does Your Machine Have?

We just received and installed our RAM upgrade via Crucial.com and we're loving the noticeable improvement in responsiveness (especially with that memory oinker, Photoshop). We can't believe we were j...

Set Top Confusion?

Don't worry George, we're as confused as you are. The whole format war between HD DVD and Blu-Ray is beginning to look all for naught with the glut of set top boxes entering the market, bringing stand...

Survey: Is Your Workspace Horizontal or Vertical?

We've seen our share of vertically arranged workspaces here at Unplggd, including Marc's vertical solution and Edward's use of a small space. We stick to a horizontal arrangement, ourselves, but wond...

Survey: Do You Have a Projector?

Gregory showed us his new projector setup a few weeks ago, and we saw our share of them in last year's Smallest, Coolest contest. But, Anthony argued that "bigger isn't always better" when we toured ...

Survey: Living Room Video Phone?

Video chat is hardly a new concept, especially considering that all MacBooks come with integrated cameras and standalone videophones have been around for a while. For whatever reason though, this is n...

XM-Sirius merger approved by DOJ

HA! It's happened. All of you who said monopolies are bad are clearly wrong since the Department of Justice has spoken the truth. But is it a monopoly when we have so many choices for media availab...

Survey: Do You Have a Record Player?

We have one, but it doesn't get used as often as we would like. We loved some of the DJ's spaces we've seen, where the record player is as much of a design choice as the furniture. But, we wondered...

Do You Use Electronic Items In the Tub?

This image from of a most precarious computing setup in the tub has us wondering how many of you out there have used a laptop, PDA, tablet, handheld gaming system or other electronic item while in the...

Survey: Have You Rented a Movie From iTunes Yet?

So, the iTunes movie rental has been up for a little while now, and there are several hundred movies available for rent. We're curious - have rented from iTunes yet? If not, why? If so, what was you...

Is Now the Time to Buy HD-DVD?

Now that Blu-ray has emerged victorious, there is an interesting dilemma. Many retailers are stuck holding HD-DVD players and movies, and as a result we are seeing incredibly chep pricing on these mov...

Plugging In: A New Lease on Life - Clock Survey

On the top, the Sunbeam Clock from Target, and on the bottom, the Binary LED clock from Think Geek. They are not to scale relative to the landing strip (both are about 1' in diameter). Being the ge...

Survey: Are You a Tech Junkie?

Today Show producer Stephanie Becker and her cameraman during a break at the Soul Tech seminar. A new program has popped up that is helping people unplug--not go wireless, but give up a tech addictio...

Survey: Mac Owners Are More Likely...

Research by Mindset Media has found that Mac users are more liberal, less modest and more assured of their own superiority. Being a Mac user myself I'm not sure that I fully agree with that statement...

Survey: Budgeting

Whether or not you agree with the politics behind the budget, a new milestone was marked today with the President delivering the United States' 2009 budget via electronic document on a notebook comp...

Survey: DTV Transition

According to the National Association of Broadcasters, 79% of the general population is aware of the upcoming transition to DTV. However, on the flip side, Consumer Reports highlights that 59% of p...

Survey: Have You Built a PC?

If you recognize anything in this photo, then chances are you've built your own PC. Building your own computer is not aa daunting as one might think, although the water cooling system seen above migh...

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