Apartment Therapy: information accessory

Are You Wondering Which Ebook Reader to Get?

Fall is here and students are back in school. Ebook readers are here to stay and they embody the modern reinterpretation of books The Kindle isn't the only good ebook reader available anymore. Sony an...

Connect Work and Home Machines with iTwin

Why is everything branded with an 'i' these days? We don't know. But what the iTwin lacks in naming creativity, it more than makes up for in usefulness. Think of it as the remote desktop taken to anot...

Gresso USB Drives Get Exotic, Priced to Match

You like speed, do ya? Formula 1 carbon fiber type speed? Well, Gresso likes speed. Which is probably why they've dedicated their latest Grand Monaco collection solely to the art of overkill - in the ...

HAI Energy Use Display & Monitoring System

Home Automation, Inc. is showing off this diminutive energy display, helping customers keep in touch with their home energy use with a graphical colour-coded display that is wirelessly updated from wi...

Simplenet Turns USB Flash Drives Into Network Storage

Not everyone is an ace at working with home networks. Most of us just want something simple, that's mostly plug and play. Even though home servers are great to have, not everyone can set them up easil...

Amazon Kindle 2: Lower Price, Same Device

For the e-book savvy, you may be glad to hear that Amazon has recently shaved off $60 off the Kindle 2's retail price of $360, dropping it down to a sweet $300 price point that's more in line with oth...

External Support: Western Digital's My Book Enters the World of Big RAID Storage

If you haven't experienced a hard drive failure in your lifetime, let's just say - in the eloquent worlds of our IT team - you will. And because file storage comes so cheaply these days, there's reall...

How to Monitor Your Home Utilities Usage Using Webcams and Google Android

It's always good to find new ways of saving money. One of the easiest ways is monitoring the amount of electricity that you use, plus the amount of water and gas. This lets you see how to curtail need...

ICFF 2009: Floppy Disk CDRs

We're kind of suckers for anything that references our childhood experience with computers. Floppy disks are one of those things. It brings back all memories of working on Pascal in elementary schoo...

Readius Pocket E-Reader: Folds Right Up Into Your Pocket

Amazon just released the second version of their popular Kindle e-reader. They have also announced a large-screen DX version. The only trouble is that Amazon uses a very restrictive platform for their...

Colorware Does the New Kindle: Looks Better Than in White

People love to customize their laptops. Now that other devices are becoming very popular, they too will be customized. It's sad when a company only offers their devices in one color. The Kindle has sl...

Mobile WiFi Hits The Streets, For A Price You Might Refuse

As we slowly move into the world of mobile WiFi (or MiFi, as they like to call it), we're starting to see the first glimpses of new "on-the-go" networking products that allow you to connect all of you...

The Amazon Kindle DX: Bigger Size, But Is It Really a Big Difference?

click for more picsOur team over at Apartment Therapy New York was bubbling with anticipation with today's announcement about the updated, larger Amazon Kindle DX. Perhaps it's because we live in a ci...

Flickr Finds: Custom Goldfish Chumby

click for more picsWe blogged about the Chumby back in 2007 and while the functionality has evolved since then, the bland looks have remained pretty much the same. If you go to the Chumby site, you ha...

Nifty Gadget Watch: The PogoPlug

On the outside, it appears to be nothing more than an oversized AC adapter, but a closer look reveals a streamlined solution for internet storage sharing pulled off with so much simplicity that it got...

Tech Stand-Off: DroboPro vs. Mid-Range PC

Just yesterday, Data Robotics announced their latest release of the DroboPro, a business class storage solution, which features a monstrous allowance of hard drive bays - 8 to be exact - catering to a...

LaCie USB Drive "Keys" Camouflage On Keyrings

Some people like to wear their geek flags high, like that guy at work who wears his USB drive on a lanyard around his neck 24/7 (well, you only see him at the office, but you expect that he's the type...

Siftables: Like Playing Jenga With Mini Computers

While catching up on some TED talks, we came across these little computerized tiles called Siftables. At first glance they look like simple white plastic blocks, but the fact that they come with a lis...

A Unique USB Drive that Does Something Practical!

USB flash drives can be really handy to have around. You can store important info on them to have at a virtual arm's reach (the list of important lists to keep is a good start) or you can use it as a ...

Option GlobeSurfer III: Turning Your 3G Signal Into A Movable WiFi Hotspot

While we're unsure whether or not this technology will take off any time in the near future, it's a cool idea nonetheless. The Option GlobeSurfer III is a router that takes a wireless 3G signal and di...

MIMOBOT USB Flash Drives: Technology Meets The Toy Kingdom

By now, most of us have probably accumulated at least a few USB flash drives either on our key chains or desk drawers, so why not give them a little more longevity by adding some fun-factor to it? MIM...

Buffalo's Wireless-N USB Dongle Gets It Just Right

While it's hard to find laptops these days missing the standard WiFi card already built-in to their motherboards, there are still a number of devices out there that probably still require the magical ...

Retro Love!: CDRs that Look Like Floppy Disks

I'm proud to be of the generation that remembers my family's first home computer. I'd imagine that I'll tell my kids about seeing and experiencing that beige plastic box the first time that now-infamo...

HP MediaSmart Server: Do You Really Need It?

While the Windows Home Server operating system has been available for consumers for quite some time, it's been relatively hard to market the device to normal, everyday consumers. Surely, a media serve...

Black & Decker's Power Monitor

Hmmm, we're intrigued by this Black and Decker product as an affordable energy audit solution. The EM100B Power Monitor is a real-time energy consumption monitoring device that operates via wireless s...

apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Posts tagged “information accessory”