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Close-Up: Working from the Road
Part Three

In part three of our series looking at couples who took their lives and work on the road, we hook up with Rich Luhr, the founder of Airstream Life magazine......

Close-Up: Working from the Road
Part Two

click for more pics Yesterday we took a look at Josh and Jacque's solution to working on the road. In our second installment we meet web designers Nathan Swartz and Olivia Meiring, and their seven-yea...

Close-Up: Working from the Road
Part One

click for more pics As many of you may already know, when I'm not blogging I occasionally write for more traditional fare – magazines. In the April issue of Wired I wrote a guide of sorts on how to ...

Get GPS Navigation On Your DS Lite: Never Get Lost Again

If you thought that GPS navigation was only for these GPS devices that you fit you in your car, you've got another thing coming. Nowadays, phones, watches, PSPs and other mobile devices have access to...

Gift Show 2009: Lexon's Collection of Clock Radios and Calculators

Lexon is no stranger to Unplggd. We've featured their innovative clock design and fun portable radios a handful of times. At this year's New York International Gift Fair the company showed off some o...

Where to Find Power When You're Away from Home

While many of us may not want to leave the house again now that the traveling rush of the holidays are over, others still need to fly to and fro for work, weddings, or a much needed vacation from the...

Re(al)view: Gogo Inflight's Friendly Skies WiFi

This post comes to you from 35,000 feet. Yup, we're surfing the web from seat 38H on American Airlines flight from San Francisco to New York. After a week away visiting the family we boarded our jumb...

A House With Legs -- And It Knows How to Use Them!

Sometimes we get tired of looking out the window and seeing the same concrete landscape, but we can't afford a weekend home to change things up. That said, if we lived in this concept we wouldn't h...

Ford Designs Car Key for Strict Parents

If you currently drive, we're sure you remember what it was like when you were young and first got your license. Speed limits were for old fogies and the volume knob on the stereo couldn't go high en...

Home Office on Wheels

Talk about a small office! Matt and Sara (and their young daughter) all share space in a 36-foot long RV. The space, which holds their bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, and living room, also features a ve...

Do You Trust Your GPS Navigator?

We've got some weird news: For the second time, a man in Bedford Hills, New York has trusted his GPS so much that he followed directions onto a set of train tracks last night. He made it out, but the ...

Navigon 7200T: Functional and Cool-To-Look-At Features

GPS navigators are becoming more commonplace than we'd originally thought they might be when we started to see them a few years back. They're the next-wave MP3 player; in the beginning, a few people h...

Tom Bihn's Checkpoint Flyer: TSA-Approved laptop bag

Since the TSA has doled out some new guidelines for checkpoint-friendly laptop bags, laptop bag manufacturers are busy coming up with models for frequent flyers, who abhor taking out their laptops at ...

Red Maloo Laptop Sleeve: Felt Ain't just for iPods!

Earlier this week Laure gave us the scoop on her felt iPhone sleeve by Red Maloo. We've been in love with it ever since we saw her carrying it around this Spring and it looks like Red Maloo has also ...

SafeRoadMaps Helps Ensure a Safe Escape

It's Escapes Month here across all the Apartment Therapy sites, and hopefully you've already taken a vacation or plan to take one in the near future. With the weak dollar, many of us are looking to hi...

Spaceship Earth is Not Your Mother's Theme Park Ride

To most, theme parks are a place of fountain sodas, roller coasters, fanny packs and overpriced merchandise. Not exactly chic and high-tech. But Walt Disney World’s Epcot is different. It’s the ho...

Best Buy Express Vending Machine Brings Tech to You

Packing our carry-on full of gadgets for a long plane trip (with layovers!), it’s almost inevitable that we will forget something that makes us go “D’oh!” when we’re sitting at Gate 29 in Te...

Look! Customized Behind

Proof that even the most banal aspects of our homes away from home can be customized. ...

Secret Microsoft Mouse Not So Secret

On Friday, the kids over at Maximum PC accidentally leaked photos of the super secret Microsoft mouse in the works -- we never thought we'd live the day when a mouse design was under lock and key. Th...

How To... Haggle in Asian Technology Markets

Here's Range again, giving us the scoop on shopping for cheap tech in Asia. This time he goes into the art of haggling... ...

How To... Take Advantage of Technology Markets in Asia

One more introduction. Range is trying out to be our special correspondent from Asia. He's a Canadian splitting his time between Taipei, Taiwan and Quebec City, Quebec Canada. He has a photo project o...

When Your Home Office Is in Your Houseboat

We love working from home, but what would make our domestic workspace even cooler is if our home was a boat, leaving us typing away in a boat office (like the one above). This little fantasy made u...

July Scavenger: Top Ten Etsy Finds

In keeping with this month's green theme, we found ten amazing items on Etsy, some of which are made from recycled or repurposed items. There are CD holders made from old calendars, USB drives made f...

USB Mini Ball Speaker

We're not sure how good these mini ball speakers sound, but they're sure cute and not a bad option for travel. They could improve the design if the unit could operate plugged into a neck strap/audio c...

Incase Two in One Charger

Part car charger, part wall charger, all in one convenience. If you are someone who travels often and find yourself constantly switching between hotel room and rental car then this is definitely for ...

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