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Light On! Bike Lights Make Brilliant Use of Pedal Power

Riding your bike is a great way to save on transportation costs and avoid subway congestion. We at Unplggd fully endorse the use of pedal power to get from point A to point B, so when a new product ...

Aloft: The Affordable Tech Hotel

This past weekend Emily and I found ourselves traveling across I-10 eastward from LA to Phoenix (actually Mesa and Tempe to be exact) to celebrate my birthday with my best friend and to hike up to t...

AViiQ Portable Laptop Stand

We love laptop stands because there are plenty of laptops out there that just get way too hot (which is only really convenient in the winter months). The only thing we don't like about them, they'r...

TimeTuner: The Clock Radio iPhone App

For those of you who like to wake up to a specific radio station in the morning and always have your iPhone nearby (we prefer the annoying beeping of our alarm clock to get our behinds immediately up ...

Inspired by Design: Nissan 370Z Roadster

We have a little design fetish here at Unplggd.com. We love all things bright and beautiful, as long as they do something that enriches our lives. We've noticed a trend recently in design that we thin...

A Great Way to Travel With Your Electronic Gear

When you are traveling, it gets hard to track all of your electronic gear. It doesn't take long for people to just throw them all in a bag and forget about them. That makes retrieving them almost impo...

Use Any Headphone With Your iPod Shuffle While Traveling

When you are traveling, it's really useful to be able to use your favorite pair of headphones for your devices. Most people have a few, but it was a bit infuriating to learn that the new iPod Shuffle ...

Tip: Put Subscriptions On Hold Before You Travel!

Going on a trip is already an expensive venture—if you're early in the planning, just wait until you get back your credit card statement with the plane tickets and hotel reservation charged up&m...

SolarStrap: Charge Your Gadgets While Traveling

When you are on the go, it gets really problematic to charge your gadgets. Sure, you can find plugs to power up some of the easily enough, but it's not always possible. At some point, you will run out...

Tech Travel Tip: Let TiVo Help with the Itinerary

We don't know about all of you, but when we take vacations, we don't do the relaxing thing. We are always up and moving, trying to see sites and experience local culture whether we're in St. Louis or ...

Project Tenba: Mobile Workstation in a Suitcase

Designer Tanvi Asher-Jones gutted out a suitcase and redesigned it to accommodate a whole mobile office inside of it, with room for a laptop, photo equipment and even a sun shield so screens could be ...

Traveling With Data: When Flash Drives Aren't Enough

The one thing that is very important when you are on the road is your data. By data, we mean photos, music, videos and more of the usual things that we gather on our trips. Depending on how long your ...

A Cup Holder Mounted Laptop Tray Saves Hundreds of Dollars

By no means do we encourage you to use your laptop while driving, but there are a lot of people out there who need to use their laptops in their cars. From our recent research on these traveling offic...

Travel Test: iPhone vs. Blackberry Bold vs. Guidebook
Conde Nast Traveler

We just stumbled across a story from the June 2009 issue of Conde Nast Traveler that's a helpful addition to Escapes month. The magazine hired three writers to navigate Moscow during the cold Russia...

Schlage LiNK Lets You Control Your Home From Afar

One of the main concerns of any homeowner is what happens to their beloved place while they are away. This is something that causes as lot of worries. You are not there and you have no control over th...

Ford Work Solutions: The Home Office on Wheels

We are spending a lot of time in cars. It's just common sense to have some kind of mobile work integration, so that all those hours spent in gridlock can actually be used for a purpose, instead of jus...

Easily Transfer Data Between Laptops When You Are On the Go

Almost everyone travels with a laptop. Laptops are handy in the way that they let you assume the same functions as a desktop, but right there as they are sitting in your lap. It's strange to image lif...

Tech Tools and Tips For Trips Near or Far

Luggage all packed: check. Forms, documents, and maps ready: check. House all prepared for departure with unnecessary appliances unplugged, lights on timer, etc: check! So you've got everything read...

Travel Month: Treadway Wearable Transportation

We love our mobile tech here at Unplggd and since we are on the topic of travel for the month of July, why not talk a bit about how we get around? Cars are clogging up our city streets. If every on...

Digital Luggage Scale

We have to confess, weighing suitcases at our house usually looks like a scene from the Keystone Cops. Mom's favorite technique involves weighing herself, then weighing herself holding the suitcase...

Using an Ikea Strainer to Boost WiFi While Traveling

When you are traveling in other countries, you become reliant on free WiFi hotspots. No one wants to use their credit card to get access to the internet. Since multiple WiFi networks can permeate the ...

The UNICAT MAN 6x6 Truck
Extreme portable living crammed with tech

The UNICAT MAN 6x6 was custom built for a customer based off the MAN TGA 6x6 Chassis. Included is everything you need for the most extreme expedition and comfort: Air suspended seats, burglarproof, ...

Hyatt Hotel Concierge is the Latest to Start Tweeting

New technology always opens doors. But the Twitter-led, one-way, micro blogging phenomenon is opening up a lot more than doors. Think bottles of bubbly, the sunroof of a towncar and jars of the finest...

Camouflaging Your Camera As an Anti-Theft Measure

We've seen this idea most prevalent amongst urban cyclists afraid of losing their two wheeled transportation to would-be thieves: camouflaging their expensive bikes with duct tape, haphazard paint job...

Close-Up: Working from the Road
Part Four -- The Final Chapter

click for more pics In our final installment we meet up the the Janssen's again. You may remember them from our previous look at their home office on the road as well as their previous entry into the...