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Hot Posts 07.19.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

We slept until 11:30 this morning and it felt oh so good. Now the A/C is cranking and we're just basking in the glow of our stellar week of posts. Here's a roundup of this week's fave readings on Unp...

DIY: Multimedia Desk, Chapter 2: Cmoy Headphone Amp (Wrap-up)

Hi again- last time we started building our Cmoy headphone amp in some leftover wood (green!) and this time we are wrapping it up so you can all see how it goes with the table. Well, feast yer eyez ...

How To... Haggle in Asian Technology Markets

Here's Range again, giving us the scoop on shopping for cheap tech in Asia. This time he goes into the art of haggling... ...

How To... Take Advantage of Technology Markets in Asia

One more introduction. Range is trying out to be our special correspondent from Asia. He's a Canadian splitting his time between Taipei, Taiwan and Quebec City, Quebec Canada. He has a photo project o...

Roundup: Seven Lazy Ways to Go Green

With this month being green month here at Apartment Therapy, we thought we'd share some tips on how to make all your home's gizmos and appliances run a bit more on the eco-friendly side......

July Scavenger: Top Ten Etsy Finds

In keeping with this month's green theme, we found ten amazing items on Etsy, some of which are made from recycled or repurposed items. There are CD holders made from old calendars, USB drives made f...

PC Mod Sees Spots

Modding PCs and customizing peripherals is a thing we love here at Unplggd, but when we saw this leopard PC mod, we thought, when have you gone too far? While absolutely impressive in its craftsman...

Acme Made's iCovers

With three cats it's almost a second job to keep hair off all our gadgets -- we won't even show you what was happening under our keys when we scrubbed down our keyboard. That's why we think investing ...

Scavenger: Urban Outfitters Debuts Cute (and Useful) USB Accessories

Ever since companies figured out they could make USB-powered doodads we've seen everything from USB powered lamps to USB mixtapes to USB powered butt coolers! Now Urban Outfitters has come out with a...

Philips Highlights: HomeDock Upconverts iPod Video to HD

Continuing with our highlight reel from yesterday's Philips press preview, we give you the HomeDock. The dock lets you easily screen your iPod videos on your television, and if you have an HDTV it wil...

Unpluggd Weekly Top Ten: 06.13.08

This week some great posts caught your attention, including our new section Close-Up as well as some oldies but goodies, like that streaming PS3 How To that keeps on clickin'! Lets take a look at wha...

Close-Up: Katy's Tidy Brooklyn Home Office

A couple weeks ago when we discussed the trouble with hiding cables, Unplggd reader kdkaboom mentioned her set-up. We asked her to send over some pictures and she did! Katy's hideaway for all her home...

Roundup: Multiple Monitor Homes

We've discussed multiple monitors multiple times here on Unplggd. Our own Gregory swears by two monitors (and occasionally swears at them), we've surveyed the correlation between multi-monitors and pr...

Look! Steampunk USB Drive

Steampunk couture is prime for a comeback. First there was the Steampunkified desktop computer so naturally someone's designed a Steampunk USB drive... ...

Look! Self-Cooling Media Cabinet Keeps Melt Downs at Bay

Have you ever put your hand inside your entertainment cabinet after watching a movie? You could bake Thanksgiving dinner in there! With all those power hogging components -- DVD player, stereo, DVR --...

Sales Alert! Sharper Image Liquidates Stores

On June 1st, 86 Sharper Image stores began liquidating their goods. The company, who filed for bankruptcy in mid February, will be shutting down all of its stores. An era has come to a close people. ...

Look! Mini Guitar Amp

For those of you so inspired by Guitar Hero to actually strum at home, you don't have to monopolize your apartment with a gynormous amp. The Marshall MS-4 Micro Stack stands just under 10-inches tal...

Survey: Do You Frame in Digital?

Digital picture frames are a curious invention. While an interesting concept for the digicam age, it's something we just can't seem to get our heads around. We've done roundups of the top ten displays...

Dog Ear: West Elm's Latest Goodies

While perusing West Elm's latest catalog we found some mod TV solutions, as well as a few Herman Miller inspired pieces. Added bonus, some finds are on sale! ...

Flickr Finds: Mini Design Whore Curio Cabinet

This is just too adorable. Flickr user, Shawnwall, set up his iPod nano below these Panton mini chairs. We love the balance of the mini items with the mega Apple Hi-Fi......

Roundup: Etsy Scavenger

We're a few days late with this monthly round-up, but you'll forgive us once you see the goodies we've found for you on our fave craft shop, Etsy. ...

Look! Laid Back Surf Chair

Designed in 2000 for the Intenet Collection competition at the Scandinavian Furniture Fair, the Surf Chair was nominated "Best Product," but never made it into production. Thought up by students Lei...

Look! Double Dock for All your iPod Models

We're not sure why you would have both an iPhone and an iPod, but those of you OD'ing on igoodness there's a new charging dock to juice up two igadgets at once......

Look! Pottery Barn Fall Finds

While it's only just turning into summer we scored a preview to Pottery Barn's fall merch (yah, we're cool like that). Two items caught our eyes......

Look! Modular Audio Controller

Peter Nyboer of Create Digial Music reviewed Percussa's AudioCubes. The glowing cubes control and even produce audio tracks by using infrared sensors to talk to each other... ...