Apartment Therapy: gardening

Bas Van Der Veer: A Drop of Water

Each time we have to fill up a glass of tap water to feed our plants, it makes us cringe a little bit. Not that it's a huge deal, but we're always looking for a way to save money on our water bill ...

A Green and Efficient Way of Raking Leaves

One of the most annoying task in gardening is raking the leaves. We can't count the number of hours that we've spent raking up leaves. What's even more annoying is that when there are more leaves that...

The High Tech Gardener: Smart Solar Roto Basket

Whether you're working with the greenest thumb or (like me) yours is a little closer to black, we could all use a little help in the garden. With everything else to do around the house, who needs to r...

How To... Turn an Apple Cube into a Terrarium

We've seen a few creative ways to repurpose Apple's G4 Cube into aquariums, tissue boxes, and LCD frame, and even a pendant lamp. Flickr user Ilovecode.dk, turned his Cube into a fish bowl for his Be...

San Francisco to Have its First Zero Energy House

Scheduled for construction in 2010, LSarc architects has designed a three-story home that is totally energy neutral. An eight kilowatt solar array, connected to the main energy grid and net metered...

Solé Integrated Solar Tiles by SRS Energy

This is the future: solar-energy-capturing products that look just like their non-solar counterparts. The Solé Power Tile is an electricity-generating tile that can be installed alongside traditional...

Urban Garden Deco: A Great Way To Make Your Garden Look Unique

Have you ever wanted to get some really cool lighting for your pool and patio? Did you go to one of those gigantic hardware stores and didn't find anything that would look good? Well, you don't have t...

LED Display Plant Pot Monitors Your Plant's Age

This is one of those future concepts common to academic creative exercise, but nevertheless notable for it's merging of nature and technology for the home. The plant pot renders were designed by You...

Trade-in Your Gas Guzzler for an Electric Mower in Southern California

Almost missed this bit of news mentioned in last month's Westways magazine: the South Coast Air Quality Management District is sponsoring a program called "Mow Down Air Pollution", offering LA, Orang...

Sun Jar: The Perfect Way to Light Your Garden

With summer already in full swing in most places, it's time to hit your garden for some great BBQs and some pool parties. Summer is great, but if you want to party all night long, you need lights of s...

Digi-Garden Hack: Using Broken dSLRs as Plant Pots

Every so often, we find ourselves regrettably dropping our dSLRs into jacuzzis, down mountain slopes, or leaving them in the hands of babies - none of which results in a reversible outcome, as you mig...

Concept: Indoor Greenhouse on a Stick

While taking a look at great backyard ideas, we can't forget people who don't have the luxury of having a small plot of land to call their own. For those of you stuck to using your green thumb in you...

Propane-Powered Yard Tools

It's a windy day in Texas, and on windy days our disdain for leaf blowers grows even greater. Our walk from the bus through the city was polluted by the roar of those machines, but more annoyingly, w...

Planters Hide Home Theater Speakers Outside

We love anything that plays double duty. The above planters clock in overtime by hiding outdoor speakers, along with holding your beautiful botanicals. Perfect for setting up an outdoor summer theate...

Loofen: Deodorizing Composter For Apartments

It's well known that one of the best ways of getting rid of some of our waste is by composting it. Sure it's smelly, but it's green and if you have a large enough yard, you don't really notice it. But...

Neuton Battery Powered Gardening Tools: Mowers, Trimmers, and Blowers

Gardening and mowing your lawn is always a pleasurable experience, especially since summer is about to arrive in style. For most lawns, you absolutely need a gas-powered lawnmower. The smaller electri...

Roundup: 10 Coolest Garden Gadgets

click for more pics Spring and summer are two of our fave seasons here at Unplggd because it means taking your tech outside. For those of you with gardens to tend to, we've found ten great products to...

Solar Umbrella: Charges Your Gadgets While You're Having Fun in the Sun

Imagine all those great summer afternoons or weekends that are spent in your garden relaxing, wouldn't it be great if they'd find a way to harness all that solar energy? The trouble with solar panels ...

Tetris Planters Make Gardening a Puzzle

What a techie way to go green! It's so lame to pot your plants into the average square and circular geometric planters, the real geeks get growing with planters shaped like Tetris cubes....

How To... Film Time Lapse Video of Garden Growth

Over the past week, every time we walk our pup we're reminded of the fact that Spring is upon us. It's as if overnight all the trees, shrubs, and flowers agreed it was time to push out some blossoms....

Green Idea? Solar Birdhouse

Now I'm no bird keeper. In fact the last memory I had of handling birds was as a young child thinking that my pet love birds needed to get out of their cage so that they could take a walk. An open win...

Roundup: 10 Best Green Concepts
Greener Gadgets Design Competition

The Greener Gadgets Conference, which happens in New York on February 27th, is hosting a design competition through the 20th. They've compiled fifty concept products that you can vote for on their si...

TerraCycle Turns Old Computers and Printers into Flower Pots

We're still slugging our way through January, but we can't wait for Spring, when we can start gardening again. We have a yard that's filled with concrete unfortunately, so we do all our gardening in ...

Gabriela Mombach’s Broto Aeroponic Plant Pot

You've undoubtedly seen or heard of the Aerogarden, the all in one interior garden solution that provides light, water and aeroponic tech to allow for easy growth. Love the NASA-tested green thumb tec...

Last Minute Gifts: Sky Mall Edition

While flying the friendly skies the other day, once our laptop battery went kaput, we went old school and started flipping through our Sky Mall catalog. We discovered that amongst the crazy items, an...

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