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Posts tagged “cables & cords”

Wooden Laser Cut Earbud Owl: Keeps Your Wired Untangled

If you are like us, you hate having messy wires around. Things get pretty messy with the wires of our MP3 players. No matter how you roll them around, in the end, they tend to get tangled one way or t...

Tech Tour: Geneva Estate Chock Full of Goodies

Name: WÃ¥gensjö / Herberger Location: Geneva suburb (France) Size: 2,368 sq ft + 40,000 square foot garden Years Lived In: Since March 2005 >> Enter Slideshow What originally drew us to WÃ¥gensjÃ...

Camouflaged Cables

If you can't beat 'em, join em. With wireless power nowhere to be seen, we are not left with many power cord options. Try your best to hide them or learn to deal with seeing them snake around your des...

Christoph Niemann Hates Cables Too
The New York Times

We've seen Christoph Niemann's pixelated bathroom and shown you his interpretation of New York life in Legos, now the artist tackles one of our biggest pet peeves, cables. According to Christoph's ...

Modular Power Sockets: Mix and Match to Create Your Perfect Power Strip

I think that everyone has the same problem when it comes to power strips. Usually, you never have enough plugs for everything that you want to plug in. So you buy another one to plug it into the first...

Flickr Finds: Fifteen Year Old's Impressive Bedroom Office

We don't know about you, but when we were 15 we could barely save up for a video game, let alone an entire workstation. Maybe we should have taken some lessons from this kid. Found on Flickr, Lewspei...

Roundup: Where to Find Cheap HDMI Cables

If you've recently invested in a new HDTV and Blu-ray player you probably already know that you need an HDMI cable to take advantage of the best possible picture and audio from your Blu-ray player. I...

Cable Lets You Watch your iPod on TV

We download a lot of our TV content (both legally and well, maybe not so legally) and then either upload it onto our iPods so we can laugh out loud while screaming inside on the elliptical at the gym...

Vine Cables: So Green That They Grow on You

I've never seen a good looking cable. Cords and cables are always unseemly. You just want to hide them away behind a desk or a closet. The fact of the matter is that our modern lives are intertwined w...

Roundup: 10 Best Green Concepts
Greener Gadgets Design Competition

The Greener Gadgets Conference, which happens in New York on February 27th, is hosting a design competition through the 20th. They've compiled fifty concept products that you can vote for on their si...

Flexicord: Popularizing The Slinky Effect Since Day One

If there's one thing that bugs the heck out of us at Unplggd, it's the windy shape cables tend to warp into after being stored for long periods of time. The end result is an obnoxious bundle of wires ...

IDAPT Charger Makes Wires Dissappear

If Unplggd was a superhero—perhaps we'll call him The Unplggd Avenger—his platform would be to rid the world's homes of ugly tech and his only weakness, his Kryptonite we should say, would...

Two Ways of Cutting Down on Cable Mess

We all have problems with cables. The problem is that there are just so many of them, it's so easy to get the infamous cable octopus and not know how to take them apart anymore. It's a mess, and the 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...

Tech Tour: Americana With a Silicon Valley Twist via Sweden

Names: Henrik Nyh and Johanna Öst Location: Stockholm, Sweden. Size: The entire home (a condo) is 63 square metres/678 square feet. Years Lived In:: Just over one year now. >>Enter Slideshow We fe...

Charge an iPod from a Laptop Without Erasing Files

It's a modern-day urban legend whose authenticity has yet to be verified: A guy is getting ready for a road trip with his buddies to Las Vegas and they decided they wanted some tunes (Tom Jones fans?...

Outlet Plate Uses Antlers to Hold Charging Phones

Now, we're not usually fans of bringing attention to your wall sockets, but since we love antlers and anything to help keep our cords organized we can get behind Nendo's socket-deer. The outlet plate...

Bocci 22 Out(lets) in the Wild

We just love it when one of our readers runs with something that we have blogged about. In this case it is the Bocci 22 outlet. Since I found out about these minimalist outlets too far into my own re...

Wishlist: Notebook Kit

Our desk is a wreck. There are papers everywhere, USB cables hanging off every corner, and on top of that our notebook sounds like its overworking its fan. It can be a bit nerve wracking to hear your...

Vase Router Does More for Shelves than Sit Behind DVDs

Sitting in front of us on our Ikea Expedit bookcase right behind our collection of DVDs (the blue ones, arranged by color as per an AT suggestion), is our standard antenna-adorned black box of a wirel...

DIY MintyBoost: Make Your Own Battery Powered iPod USB Charger

There is nothing more frustrating than being on the road or around and running out of juice in your iPod or iPhone. There are a number of solutions out there that will help you charge your gadgets, bu...

Donut Shaped Power Strip: A Better Way of Charging Your Gadgets

Power strips are usually near the heart of our gadget-centered lives. All our gizmos need power in order to work. Most of them need to be recharged. Most power strips are cumbersome and problematic, e...

Roundup: Five (Easy) Ways to Plunge the Wooden Stake in Vampire Energy

Last April Good Magazine and animator Nigel Holmes created a video that explains how wasteful vampire power is. In the short film, Nigel narrates us through the cost of keeping your computer, microwa...

The Solution to Poor Cell Phone Battery Life: Complimentary Phone Charging Station

It seems that many of our friends, or almost anyone we talk to, has some difficulty getting through the day without their cell phone dying. It has gotten so bad, that we have even heard of people comp...

Powewise: A Table-Like Docking Station

Powerwise is a neat little docking station designed by by Johanna Strand and Asa Elmstam. If you have a lot of gadgets to charge, a docking station is the best way to manage them. In one compact space...