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Averatec's All-In-One PC Is Shiny, Looks Familiar

Sure, companies worldwide have always looked for clever ways to push their products to the masses, but there's is no simpler solution than to copy something considered already perfected. In comes Aver...

ASUS Eee PC 900: Updates Galore, Available Now

With a wider 8.9" screen, an integrated webcam, more RAM, and a much larger hard drive than its previous releases, the recent release of the ASUS Eee PC adds more usability and appeals to the ultra-ul...

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...

PC Mag Auctions Artist-Designed Laptops for Charity

Looking for a new laptop? The National Cristina Foundation and PC Magazine have worked together with a variety of well known artists to create and auction eight one-of-a-kind, artist-designed HP lapto...

How To: Spend Your Economic Simulus Check on Sustainable Eggs

Chicken coops tend not to bring thoughts of high design and innovation. The introduction of the Eglu in 2004 by British company Omlet changed the way urbanites think about raising hens. With economi...

How To: Clean your Keyboard

Warning: Stop reading if you're eating breakfast. A new study has found that your keyboard may be five times as filthy as a toilet seat. Yes, you could be typing away on the equivalent of butt germs! ...

Lenovo Thinkpad X300: It Fits in a Manila Envelope Too

Funny and true. While the MacBook air can fit in a Manila envelope, when you add the optical drive, and USB hub the game changes just a little bit. ...

Where to Dump your E-waste this Spring

We have a love/hate relationship with Spring cleaning. It's definitely nice to purge your home of unnecessary clutter (trust us, you're never going to use that CRT monitor again). But the drawback of ...

Turning the Mac mini into a Windows Vista Media Center system

Hats off to Krunker for this encyclopedic post about how to convert a Mac mini into a Windows Vista operated media center, combining the options of a Windows based machine with the form factor of an A...

The Hello Kitty Epson Endeavor NJ2100

Our prayers have been answered....

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......

Turbo USB Mini Vacuum

Sadly, my home and office keyboard could use this little vacuum. While compressed air is one option for getting the gunk out from between your keys, it would be much nicer to not have to try and gath...

1952 Philco TV Console Cabinet Converted Into Home Theater PC System

"q240z" says he doesn't care for "the newfangled plastic cabinets" modern electronics come in (for the most part, we have to agree). So he took a 1952 Philco TV console cabinet he purchased for $40 fr...

Fujitsu Wooden Laptop

Asus has the bamboo laptop and now Fujitsu has the cedar laptop. While they look very similar I actually like the Fujitsu concept better. Why?...

Toshiba Intros Face Recognition In New Laptops

Concerned about the wrong people using your laptop when you are away? No worries! Toshiba's new face recognition works in conjunction with system logins, deterring privacy violating snoopers and addin...

Good Questions: Wireless Home Theater PC Keyboard

Dear Unplggd, I am in the middle of setting up my Home Theater PC and looking for a wireless way to control it. Ideally it would be a combination keyboard and touchpad for convenience and easy storag...

Crucial Mac RAM Scanner

After a couple years of getting by fine with 2GB of RAM in our aging dual G5, we finally decided to give our memory ravenous Photoshop a little extra oomph (we're just doubling up, since we hope to mo...

Can Laptops Replace Desktops? The New X-R700 and X-S900 From LG

The new LG X-R700 and X-S900 laptops are being marketed as desktop replacements and it got us wondering; is it time to give up the desktop altogether? We have a couple of old PCs kicking around and m...

FLX- The Squeezable Flash Drive

For whatever reason I have yet to actually go out and buy a USB flash drive. Part of me thinks that I can get away without carrying one, which has proven untrue as I constantly find myself in situatio...

Yonkoichi HDD Enclosure

We finally got around to picking up an external hard drive to back up all the data on our laptop. While we went with a dual 3.5 inch drive solution, the Yonkoichi HDD enclosure packs four 2.5 inch dri...

Microsoft Surface Surfaces

It is actually coming, so get dressed. Microsoft has just announced that AT&T will be carrying their table monitor to help customers select phones in their stores. This is basically a soft roll-out ...

Grace HTPC Case

Understandably it is just a case, but I still don't know what to think of this one? At first glance, aesthetically I thought this may be up there with the Merium PC but after looking closer it is com...

The Sonnet MacCuff Mini: Making Small... Invisible.

If you have a Mac Mini and dont know where to put it, the MacCuff Mini is a crime-fighting, space saving dynamo that helps you unclutter and take back your desk....

Merium Home Theater PC

This would be right at home in the living room and definitely gives the Mac mini a run in the looks department. Click through for more pictures and what I think is the best feature of this design......

A Bento Box of Computing Elegance: The Ryou PC Collection

Anyone who grew up in or around an asian household might recognize the look of these Judas Tree wood lacqered boxes from Ryou, but probably wouldn't recognize them as beautifully carved PC cases......

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