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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...

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,...

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...

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 ...

Remote Control R2D2 Movie Projector

Sure, this is pretty geeky, and normally we're not one to want our home electronics to look like a "toy". But perhaps it's the 7-year old Jedi-loving kid still within when we say this R2D2 remote proj...

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...

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...

SunView PMP IPL630 Projector From iView

Sunlink International Holdings and iView Limited unveiled the first pico-projector product (SunView PMP Projector IPL630) which is available in Hong Kong. In addition to the obvious portability aspe...

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...

Netflix Tech Glitch Slows Down Service

Did anyone notice Netflix's breakdown in service yesterday? Apparently the site was down for most of the day due to technical difficulties yet to be described. Strangely enough, we were just remarki...

Which Blu-ray Player Should I Get?

Sony has released version 2.20 of its PlayStation 3 firmware which might just give people a reason to buy the console for something other than games... Since HD DVD is basically out of the 'picture' n...

News: Best Buy Gives $50 Credit for HD-DVD Players

Not to be outdone by the Blu-Ray debacle, Best Buy has followed on the heals of Circuit City's rebates to customers by issuing their own rebate for those who purchased HD-DVD players from their store...

News: With HD-DVD Gone, Blu-Ray Player Pricing Goes Up

But of course. While this doesn't really come as a surprise now that HD-DVD is out of the picture, we continue to wonder why the PS3, a Blu-ray player and gaming console, manages to remain cheaper tha...

News: Circuit City's HD DVD For Blu-Ray Trade In

The details for this are a little sketchy, but Gizmodo has confirmed that you can take in your old HD-DVD player into Circuit City and receive credit for purchasing a new Blu-Ray machine. It's not c...

Survey: Have You Rented a Movie From iTunes Yet?

So, the iTunes movie rental has been up for a little while now, and there are several hundred movies available for rent. We're curious - have rented from iTunes yet? If not, why? If so, what was you...

News: Netflix Adding More Blu-Ray, May Raise Rates

Hot on the heals of the announcement of the death of HD-DVDs, Netflix has now announced that they are quickly phasing out their inventory in favor of Blu-Ray. The problem? They're finding it to not...

Mvix 780 Wireless HD Media Player

The MVix Wireless HD Media Player gives you access to all of the media in your home, when and where you want it. Sure, this sounds like the Apple TV, but it offers a competitive alternative....

How To...Convert HD-DVDs to Blu-Ray

Don't get "stuck" with your HD-DVDs if you don't want to...Wired has a tutorial for for making your HD-DVDs playable on your Blu-Ray. Wired prefaces the tutorial with this: "By converting your movi...

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