Apartment Therapy: peripherals

Neil Poulton Designed LaCie Sound2 Speakers

We've always been oh-so-tempted to order a pair of Neil Poulton's LaCie speakers due to their modernist aesthetic, but reports of some audio hiss always gave us second thoughts. Well, we now have a ...

Wacom Adds Multi-Touch to Bamboo Tablets

Gesture enthusiasts rejoice! Multi-touch support has finally hit the Wacom Bamboo line (as seen in Gregory's home office tour), allowing you to pair up your artistic talents with a huge touch-pad for ...

Kensington Joins Docking Station Boat, Sans Wireless

If Toshiba's Wireless U docking station seemed a bit out of reach at $300, perhaps Kensington HD Universal Docking Station may sound like a better fit for all you budget desktop conversion aficionados...

AmazonBasics Private Label Store

Looks like Amazon is setting to take on ultra-discount consumer electronics accessories retailers like Monoprice.com with their new private label, generic packaged AmazonBasics. The selection includes...

How to Access Your Home Files From Anywhere

It's becoming easier and easier to just store your files in the cloud. By cloud, we mean online. For example, a lot of people are now using Google Docs as an easy way to store their files. This makes ...

Elecom USB Soap Mouse

They look more like Pez candies than soap to us, but these soaps are definitely "kawaii" any way you look at them. Besides their appearances, the Elecom USB Soap Mouse is a regular mouse in every oth...

Re(al)view: Firestone Fubar 111 USB DAC / Headphone Amp

It seems there is no end to the fabulous, tiny products from Firestone. We have talked a lot about them over the past few months and this week we audition the Fubar 3 DAC and headphone amp (which i...

BackPack Keeps Maccessories Off Your Desk

This thing is far more sophisticated than our wire-hanger-made DIY cord wrangler, but it follows the same general principle: Want to hide stuff on your desk? Do it behind the monitor!...

Re(al)view: Firestone Big Joe 3 Digital Power Amplifier

Firestone has been kind enough to send us a few of their products recently and today we take an in-depth look at a new digital amplifier. The Big Joe 3, as its numerimacality suggests, is the third g...

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...

How To... Build a Baby Cam with a Mac Mini and iSight

Lauren Hirsch, a blogger for The Unofficial Apple Weblog, was on maternity leave when she realized her love of Apple didn't have to go on leave post baby. She decided to turn a standalone iSight and I...

Project Natal: Microsoft's Full Body Motion Sensing System

In addition to anouncing multiple titles and improvements to their Xbox Live! lineup, including Last.fm implementation to allow easy music streaming to your home entertainment center, Microsoft reveal...

Re(al)view: NuForce Icon Mobile: Headphone Amp for Two

How many times have you been on a plane and seen two luvahs sharing a pair of earbuds? We do it all the time on the Unplggd jet. Maybe you are watching a DVD on your laptop or maybe you just want to...

MyKeyO: Keyboard Turned Portable Briefcase?

MyKeyO's Keyboard Organizer well err.. the name sort of explains itself. But really, this is design brilliance at its core. Or, an even better way to put it would be, "Good design is all about making ...

Re(al)view: NuForce Icon with S-1 Speakers

We recently got our grips on a small set of audio reproductive devices from NuForce. They sent us their …iconic… Icon amp, a set of their S-1 speakers, and the cables to connect them. We had rea...

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...

Flash Drive Band: Wear Your Files

Now here is a flash drive that I could actually see myself carrying around....because I wouldn't actually be carrying it, but wearing it. While there is no shortage of flash drives masquerading as lip...

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Charge Up Your Muscles and Gadget

You know you need the exercise anyhow, so why not just combine your gadget power needs with an easily transportable charging accessory which also provides you with the grip-enhancing workouts? Mac Fun...

Product Review: Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin iPod Speaker System

*A touch of class* Genuinely beautiful. This is the kind of object that you will see about twenty years from now in a dusty, 2008 issue of Architectural Digest, lounging lustily on some perfect pie...

Cute USB Hubs at Fred Flare

It's nice that technology has become so ubiquitous that trendy clothing stores like Fred Flare and Urban Outfitters offer fun tech solutions. This week we found these rad USB hubs at Fred Flare. We...

Hot Posts 08.03.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

We can't believe it's already August and we've yet to build our backyard theater! That project may have to wait until next year, but in the meantime this week's Hot Posts are getting us inspired for ...

Good Questions from AT Chicago

Over at AT Chi-town, reader LKCHI is trying to figure out what to do to hide her cable box. Because her fancy, new flat screen is mounted on the wall she can't just tuck her box behind it......

Survey: Should Gadgets be Gender Specific?

We recently came upon this concept external hard drive inspired by a ladies make-up compact. We've seen manufacturers try to pander to their idea of what women want before, which made us wonder, is i...

iFixIt Lets You Void that Warranty With Confidence

Here's a post from Taylor... We won't admit it in front of PC devotees, but Mac users know that there are a few valid criticisms of Apple computers. Sure we like few viruses, sleek aesthetics, and st...

Hallelujah! A Church Turned Home Houses A Packed Pew of Peripherals

When Ben and Deb bought a 1940s church to turn into their home they knew at least one room would be dedicated to worshiping all things media. They chose a room within the former church, where its min...

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