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Posts tagged “organizing”

Plug Pin

Picture a bunch of these all over a cork board above your desk. While the design really just makes the common push pin more effective (dual prong so that papers don't spin around), we like the idea of...

Flickr Finds: Multitasking Wallunit

While perusing Flickr for décor ideas we came upon a New Yorker's solution for packing a media center, library, and home office in one wall within her small bedroom. Using Ikea's Ivar shelving unit...

Look! Best Tech in Small Cool 2008 -- Part 5

This year's Small Cool contest has brought in a lot of great ideas for hiding technology. Dave and Rob of San Francisco are no exception. They used vintage furniture and accessories to help balance t...

Hardbox: Hardcover External Hard Drive

I have a network hard drive attached to my Aiport Extreme and both of them sit on a shelf amongst books and other various objects. While the hard drive doesn't really look that bad, (it is a black ano...

Crate and Barrel's All-in-One Media Center Solution

We just got Crate and Barrel's catalog in and are psyched to see a well designed media center at a reasonable price. The cabinet has creative solutions for holding and hiding your flat screen, DVDs,...

Look! Best Tech in Small Cool 2008 -- Part 4

Next up in our tour of Small Cool 2008 tech is Mathew Melis' pad in Los Angeles, where a tea cart was repurposed as a peripheral pad......

Look! Best Tech in Small Cool 2008 -- Part 3

And off we go again on our tech tour of this year's Small Cool spaces. Over the past week we've been looking at creative ways this year's Small Cool finalists have incorporated technology into their h...

Kangaroom Storage Bamboo Charging Station

For whatever reason I am always misplacing the charger for my cell phone. Partly because I don't like having it laying out looking messy when it is not being used and partly because I unplug it to avo...

Kaiju Studios: I/O desk Organizer

Forget those plastic or metal mesh desk organizers. Walnut and felt is where it's at. While the materials are definitely notable, it is the modularity and adjustability that make this the ideal deskto...

How To: Cram an Office into a Pax Wardrobe

We have seen a home office hidden in a Pax wardrobe before but it is always good to see other interpretations of an idea. Keeping with our May theme of organizing, Ikeahacker shows us how a Pax ward...

Look! Reclaimed Wood Media Center

It's official. We're in love. Please welcome our soul mate, the Fractured Fairy Tale. Made by designer Thomas Wold, the piece is a wall unit made for his client in order to house their A/V equipment...

Hot or Not? Cord Cozy

This cord cozy reminds us of this week's earlier post on tangled electric wire lamps. Now if this cozy was made by the graffiti knitting gang, Knitta Please, you could consider it a work for art. But ...

Incipio Technologies thinCRADLE for iPhone

Recently we showed you a beeyootiful wooden iphone/ipod holder and now prepare yourselves to be wowed again. Incipio Technologies has created the thinCRADLE for the iPhone. It's a standard dock as f...

Look! Simple and Clean Floating Desk

We brought you a floating minimalist desk yesterday and are bringing you another one today. ...

Look! Minimalist Desk With Tons of Space

This great DIY project comes to us via Design*Sponge. While the desk as shown seems to be used for storage and crafts, this could easily be modified to be an office desk or TV stand......

Look! The Offices of Digg

I have to admit an addiction called Digg. It's the second site I wake up to and the second to last site I look at before putting the computer to sleep (of course, AT is first and last). Digg is like m...

Ikea Stiby

Another Ikea solution that allows you to get the clean wall mounted TV look without having to punch holes in your wall or permanently commit to a specific side of the room. ...

DIY Project: Turning a Home Office on Its Side

Our recent survey on vertical and horizontal workspaces got us thinking, what if you're working in the wrong direction? Could this hinder your productivity? My theory, based on my own office space, is...

Project Runway's Chloe Dao Designed Technology Handbags

Attention gadget loving Project Runway fans: Chloe Dao of reality show fame has designed a series of handbags specifically designed to get your digital lifestyle tools all in order, with compartments ...

Trollsta Sideboard

ATLA already posted this but we thought to bring it over to unplggd as it would function perfectly as a TV stand. Why? ...

Reverse Engineer: How To Feel Up Your Monitor

Y'all ready for your first Reverse Engineer project? This one's easy. We promise. On Monday we wrote about a series of adorable laptop sleeves made be a French duo. We thought, why not take their ide...

Epson MovieMate 30s Projector; Melds Video and Audio

A little tired of the HD DVD and Blu-Ray wars? Not into "installing" anything? Dont know/care what 8.1 channel surround means? We hear you (just pandering here). Actually, this is a great way to h...

Anthro eNook Compared to the Ikea PS

The eNook and the Ikea PS are two very nice wall mounted desks with once very big difference, price. ...

Roundup: Choosing the Right Network Accessed Storage

The Apple Time Capsule is one of the best looking newtwork accessed storage drives available and probably one of the easiest for setting up regular, automated backups for your data. Even though the Ti...

MoDu Media: Media Cabinet With Integrated Stand

The MoDu media cabinet from the Swiss company Team by Wellis is a minimal and understated way of displaying your TV, both against a wall or in the middle of the room. ...

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