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Posts tagged “cables & cords”

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...

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 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...

Kangaroom Storage Bamboo Charging Station

For whatever reason I am always misplacing the charger for my cell phone. Partly because I don't like having it laying out looking messy when it is not being used and partly because I unplug it to avo...

Hot or Not? Cord Cozy

This cord cozy reminds us of this week's earlier post on tangled electric wire lamps. Now if this cozy was made by the graffiti knitting gang, Knitta Please, you could consider it a work for art. But ...

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 ...

Incipio Technologies thinCRADLE for iPhone

Recently we showed you a beeyootiful wooden iphone/ipod holder and now prepare yourselves to be wowed again. Incipio Technologies has created the thinCRADLE for the iPhone. It's a standard dock as f...

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 ...

Earbud JACK From What if Widgets; Keeps Your Tires Widy

Err... Wires Tidy...These little darlings are perfect for keeping your earbuds from falling on the floor and becoming... dirty. All tidy and nice. Cute design is a major plus for your desktop. What...

Trollsta Sideboard

ATLA already posted this but we thought to bring it over to unplggd as it would function perfectly as a TV stand. Why? ...

Kitchen Power Grommet PCS34; Not Just for the Kitchen

The Kitchen Power Grommet PCS34 from mockett.com is a little trick that we love not just for the kitchen, but also for the home office. Sure, it is designed to avoid spills, but it also hides away a...

Isolé IDP-3050 Power Strip: Shuts Down When You're Not There

The best way to avoid drawing unnecessary current is to unplug all your unused chargers or electronics. While this is what we should do, many people complain that the plug in question is hidden behind...

BlueLounge's The Sanctuary: A Home For Your Gadgets

"Sanctuary...Sanctuary..." The words evoke memories of one of our favourite childhood favourite movies, Logan's Run. But in this case, The Sanctuary is a tastefully designed charging station compatibl...

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...

Look! Small Space Entertainment Center

Ah, what to do when you've got extremely limited space, but an unlimited love for home entertainment gear, including a (now obsolete) HD-DVD player, a DVR, a 32" LCD display, and a PS3? ...

ezSpace UFO Surge Protector

While the ezSpace UFO is not as pretty as the Belkin Concealed Surge Protector, it does allow for surge protection to six large wall warts in a very compact space. ...

Bluelounge Sanctuary Charging Station

Here's a charging station that's figured out exactly what you need. Perfect for anyones landing strip, the small box comes with 12 built-in connectors and lets you charge just about any gadget....

CD Spindle Cable Storage

We've covered how to organize cables, hide cables, and cut cables, but what about storing them? A Lifehacker reader passed along a great tip for storing cables and reusing an annoying byproduct of te...

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....

USB Caterpillar Hub

Four USB ports in a colorful, adjustable package. While this doesn't necessarily add any useful functionality, it is definitely one of the better looking hubs we have seen. For those of you that like ...

News: Flatwire Coming to a Big Box Store Near You

Flatwire has come up again and again as an alternative to punching holes in your walls to run cables. While the audio wires have been available for some time online, soon you will be able to purchas...

DIY Charging Box

We've uncovered lots of ways to make your own version of the ubiquitous charging box, but this one stood out as a cheap and easy to create solution....

Eject Powerstrip

On one hand, we think this concept is great as we always find ourselves stepping on the other plugs in order to keep the powerstrip down when pulling out an individual plug. On the other hand, incorpo...

Etsy Scavenger

We're digging up Etsy finds for you today, including this charging cone for $7. Complete with labels for your power cables, the cone offers an inexpensive way to store and organize your gadgets. Fin...

BlueLounge SpaceStation Macbook Dock With USB Hub

My girlfriend's office happens to also be our living room coffee table. That means a mess of USB wires, power cables, her iPod and digital camera are often strewn across alongside her laptop. It's alm...

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