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9 Things Topping Our Holiday Wish List

We're not really materialistic or all about "the gimmies," but with Thanksgiving and family get togethers right around the corner, relatives are sure to start probing for things that might be making...

Tech Gifts For the Home and Beyond, Etsy Edition

We at Unplggd are no stranger to Etsy. Etsy is a great source for wonderful and unique items for your home and a neat place to find some fun geek accessories. With a variety of items and price point...

Cute Fruit-Shaped Gadgets
Roundup

Mac may have the monopoly on the Apple logo, but that doesn't mean other companies aren't experimenting with shaping their gizmos in the shapes of McIntosh, watermelons, and Pears. ...

10 Digital Kitchen Scales We Love
Roundup

A little over a year ago, our sister site the Kitchn extolled the virtues of the kitchen scale. I had, like the author of this post thought that kitchen scales were something for calorie counters an...

Retro Video Game Textiles & Cross Stitching Home Goods

We were perusing some of the fabric options over at an Etsy shop when we noticed they were selling an assortment of Space Invaders inspired printed textiles, perfect to craft together an Invaders th...

10 Best Weight Loss Games for the Wii
Roundup

After recently covering the Cyberbike title for the Wii, we were thinking it was time to look at the other weight loss games for the Wii and roundup the top ten. In some of our picks the fitness goa...

Roundup: Three of the Year's Best Pro Cans

Something that tends to go hand-in-hand with our love for merging design and technology is our undeniable addiction to headphones. Luckily, Cnet has rounded up their top 3 picks for headphones of the ...

Technicolor: Gold

Ah gold. The color of luxury. Luckily, even though gold plating is on the pricey side, plenty of gadget manufacturers have figured out how to give their products some bling bling without charging a l...

Technicolor: Brown

Brown has been used in electronics as far back as we can all remember. Our homes all had giant speakers with wood grain veneer wrapped around them. Thank goodness the brown and wood grain electron...

Technicolor: Purple

Purple has long been considered a royal, even imperial, color- Alexander the Great wore robes of Tyrian purple, and Han purple was used to decorate the warriors of the Xian Terracotta Army. For we ...

10 Things We Love About Windows 7

As Microsoft's lead in user experience quoted recently, "Windows' point of view is about adding value and solving distractions." But the buck doesn't just stop at productivity - there's much more to W...

Flora Inspired Technology
Unplggd Roundup

Designers often look to that greatest of designers for inspiration. No, we're not talking about Dieter Rams, though he's obviously right up there with ole Mother Nature. One of the most notable tren...

Ten Best Looking USB Hubs We Can Live With

Despite the existence of just about any and every shape of USB peripheral out there, the lineup of USB products we'd actually like to invite into our home is quite small. We just ordered some USB po...

Technicolor: Orange

Orange is the color of heat, of fire and of passion. There's nothing quite like something orange. From amber to vermilion, there are a number of shades that will impress you with emotion. Burnt orang...

Technicolor: White

Many people see white as a lack of color; a blank canvas without blue or green splashed all over it. But we beg to differ. Sleek white gadgets can make just as big a statement as red, popping bright...

Technicolor: Green

Usually when we talk about green technology here on Unplggd we are referring to eco-friendly products, but today we are actually focusing on goods that would make Kermit the Frog happy. Though admi...

Roundup of Small Space Home Offices
House Tour Roundup

We thought we'd turn the spotlight on the plethora of small space home from our archive of House Tours from our sister city sites over at Apartment Therapy, focusing on laptop and all-in-one desktop...

Technicolor: Yellow

When we think of the color yellow, we immediately think of home tech. There are hundreds and hundreds of home tech products that are yellow and we thought we'd give you a little heads up. Sometime...

Technicolor: Red

Even though (Product) Red has somewhat monopolized the hue to designate products that donate to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, we still find red reminiscent of the 80s. May...

Technicolor: Pink
The Color of Home Tech

Apartment Therapy is looking for for the most colorful room on the planet with the 2009 Room for Color contest, and we all know that decorating a colorful home doesn't have to stop at the gadgets. Fe...

Top 6 Ergonomic Keyboards
Roundup

If there's one good health investment you can make to your home office setup, it's replacing that cruddy default Dell one that came with your computer 7 years ago with an ergonomic one. With recomme...

Retro Roundup: Typewriters

Looking to contribute to that modern "shabby chic" style everyone seems so ga-ga about in your own home? Consider adding a touch of old school word processing in the form typewriters (or maybe some vi...

8 Ingenious Ideas We're Totally Stealing
From Unplggd Tech Tours

The best part about home decor, and more specifically the display of technology in our home, is that there's no need to reinvent the wheel. There's only so many ways to contain and present certain ...

Home Office and Crafting Room Roundup

This month over at Apartment Therapy, our team has been busy sharing great idea for arts, crafts and collections in the home. And while researching sewing and craft rooms, we realized that many of th...

All in One Desktops Roundup

The all-in-one desktop competition is heating up with just about every major computer manufacturer jumping on the band wagon. While they're still a bit slower than a full desktop, from a aesthetics ...