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Look! Best Tech in Small Cool 2008 -- Part 6

Projectors can give you big screen options, but where to install the awkward gizmo can be a challenge. If you want a great picture you tend to have to install your new device in the middle of the room...

Look! Ikea Bedtable Turned TV stand

We love Ikea hacks and a hack that helps hold your gizmos is a mega plus. Looking for a small entertainment center, and Ikea Hacker reader discovered that if she put two Malm bedside tables together s...

Flat Screens as Decor

If you can't beat 'em, join em. Or maybe 'if you've got it flaunt it' is a more appropriate phrase. While we tend to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to hide our TV's, an easier, and prob...

Samsung Touch of Color LCD's

Are manufacturers finally tiring of black TV frames? Sony has the colorful, albeit small Bravia KLV-20s400 and now Samsung has their 'touch of color' LCD's. ...

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...

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,...

The Colourful Sony Bravia KLV-20S400A HDTV

It's funny how manufacturers seems to relegate white and coloured case flat panel displays to the kitchen, when from personal observation there seems to be a healthy demand for these type of displays ...

Sears and Kmart Offer Stimulus Savings if You Hand Over Your Check

Speaking of stimulus packages... Business Week writes about how big box chains are trying to lure you into spending your stimulus checks in their stores. According to the National Retail Federation ...

Hot or Not?

Double Duty: Flat Screen TV Cover and Modern Art Piece Image from Etsy seller haworth...

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...

Look! Best Tech in Small Cool 2008 -- Part 2

As we continue with our look at the best tech in this year's Small Cool contest we go to Ginger's San Francisco loft where she's built a hanging shelf for her media center......

Look! Best Tech in Small Cool 2008

If you haven't checked out the pads in Apartment Therapy's Small Cool 2008 contest we strongly urge you to. Hot damn there are some good ideas and some are on the tech front. We'll be posting some of ...

Hitachi: 1.5 Inches of UltraThin LCD Goodness

It's mind boggling how thin televisions have become over the span of just a few years. Just when we thought television sets couldn't possibly get much thinner, Hitachi goes out and proves us wrong. I'...

Sharp X-Series and Amimon: Wireless HDTV

"Wireless whole-home HD connectivity with quality equivalent to that achieved with HDMI" is what the press release says. By pairing a wireless transmitter with a receiver that comes built in to the X...

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 ...

Flickr Finds: Zen Media Center

If you've ever gone to a spa you've probably noticed that pebbles and rocks play a large part in the décor. There's something relaxing about carefully arranged rock gardens, so it makes sense that yo...

Remote Control Pocket Pillow

Now this is an easy enough DIY project for you chronic remote control misplacers that happen to have some sewing skills. Sure, you could just store the remote in your TV cabinet or on the table, but w...

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......

Roundup: Etsy Finds

Etsy is a goldmine for gadget and geek accessories you didn't know you needed. Every month we'll be rounding up the best finds from craftsters from around the world. This month we found a rad needle...

TV Evolution: Panels Shrink, Waistlines Stretch

Sad but true? Is Wii fit the answer? -via Core77...

Goo Systems Screen Paint; Paint a Home Theater on Your Wall

We project on the wall directly when we watch movies but the regular paint robs us of some of our picture quality. However, a large projection screen seen through a window can often be a signal to ev...

Look! 12th Scale Dollhouse with Working TV

Is this creepy or cool? On a technical level we applaud Brett Foster for being able to build a functional 2 inch TV that connects to a DVD player via composite cables. On the other hand, maybe it is t...

Hollandia International and Karim Rashid's The Sphere Bed

One of the most heated debates on AT came about when we asked you all about how you felt about televisions in the bedroom. Personally, we prefer to rest, relax and...ahem...wrassle...than invite the l...

How To: Childproof Your Home Theater

Protecting your home theater may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of childproofing, but Wired gives a great how to on how to keep your components from becoming your child's jun...

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