Hot or Not?: Sound Egg Chair
We've never met a person that hasn't had some sort of love for the Ovalia Egg Chair (it's a classic!), but it seems nowadays; anyone and everyone is trying to expand upon the original by adding soun...
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Convert Box-Like Expedit Into Entertainment Center
When you move or renovate your home theater area, you'll most probably want to get rid of a dated entertainment center. The trouble is that there are quite a few on the market and the newer low-slung ...
Hacking Ikea Furniture to Make An Ergonomic Desk
It's one thing if you buy an ergonomic desk. It's another think to hack existing IKEA furniture to make an ergonomic desk. Joel and Mandy transformed a few IKEA parts into an awesome ergonomic one, wh...
Zhu Zhu Hamsters on Kids and Hackers Wish Lists this Holiday Season?
Have you heard of the Zhu Zhu Hamster yet? It's supposed to be the Furby/Tickle-Me-Elmo/Tamagotchi of this holiday season and according to some reports it's already sold out and sellers are jacking u...
The Framed Entertainment Center
Here's an interesting take on "framing" your entertainment center posted over at IKEA Hacker. A submission from Tien showcases a DIY project utilizing 4 Lack long shelves, 2 Lack side tables and some ...
N900 Rolodex Machine
One part new tech combined with another part old school and you've got the N900 Rolodex machine that takes advantage of the Bluetooth capabilities of the Nokia device to track exactly which contact ...
Ikea Besta Hacked Into Floating Media Center
Why is it that we want our home-sweet-cozy-home to feel like a chic boutique hotel room? We don't have any clue 'Why' but we sure know how to make it happen. Try switching out your media center shelvi...
DIY iPhone Water Protection from your Recycling
This low-cost rain protection for your iPhone-when-mounted-on-a-bike isn't fancy but it does the job. While it's not sealed, rain doesn't generally come from the ground so it'll do a fine job at kee...
Using a Shelf as a Floating Entertainment Unit
When choosing the entertainment unit for your HDTV, it's not always good to use something very large and imposing. Most of the time, something simple and elegant will do the job nicely. That's why we ...
How To... Turn an Apple Cube into a Terrarium
We've seen a few creative ways to repurpose Apple's G4 Cube into aquariums, tissue boxes, and LCD frame, and even a pendant lamp. Flickr user Ilovecode.dk, turned his Cube into a fish bowl for his Be...
DIY Project: Ikea Bonde TV Bench... Simplified
On Ikea Hacker today, Swedish hackster Oscar Cederwall turns a gigantic Bonde TV add-on into a slick sideboard. "The main reason for why I decided to build my own side board from Bonde is because I ...
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...
Ikea Hacked PC Desk
When Matt and Beck decided it was time to redecorate their office they hacked their way into a clean and simple space. "When we first moved in we sorta just slammed in whatever furniture we had, boug...
DIY Project: Repurpose a Coffee Table Into A HDTV Stand
With HDTVs getting thinner and thinner, and even being able to stream your NetFlix movies directly without any extra hardware, you'll need less and less space to showcase them. That being said, we don...
Furniture Made of Old Airplanes and Fighter Jets
Looks like turning old airplane parts into furniture isn't just a one hit wonder. Roughly 200 airplanes are retired every year. Most go to a scrap metal graveyards to be picked apart for worthy parts...
Nintendo Controller Morphs Into Doorbell
OMG! We need this. We NEEEEEEED it. One very creative DIYer retrofitted an old school NES controller to be a doorbell. Once any button on the controller is pressed it sends a signal to the wireless ...
Look! Interactive LED Ambient Lighting
Whoa, when people mention adding "mood lighting" we don't think they mean a full blown discotheque, laser light show. But that's exactly what Instructables user Hazard created using a customizable LE...
Simple DIY Lamp Lets Tech Take the Stage
What you're looking at up there is the most minimalist of lamps, hand crafted from recycled lab equipment. No DIY project could be easier, we assure you. But the result is simple and, in it's own indu...
DIY Project: Build Your Own Automated TV Lift
Here's a great DIY for people who want to build their own automated TV lift without having to buy new media furniture... ...
Computers and Home Decoration: Finally a Way to Make it Happen
It's true that most computers don't really fit into stylish living rooms. Usually, they tend to stick out like sore thumbs. As desktops get smaller and smaller, companies are trying to find ways of ma...
Plastolux's Modern Credenza Ikea Hack
Tyler of design and interior blog Plastolux wanted to build a credenza, inspired by a project done by x818.com we showcased over at Apartment Therapy NY, except Tyler's budget dictated he needed to lo...
Ikea Hack: Zen Laptop Table
If you are like most people, you're working more and more off your laptop. This liberates you from your desk, and makes you find different places to work. The trouble is that you need a nice flat surf...
DIY Project: Turn an Obsolete Newspaper Stand Into a Digital News Feed
click for more pics Scott Walker is a newspaper editor who has a soft spot for the traditional. Rather than get his headlines from his desktop, he rigged an old newspaper stand to gather all the days...
The Foldout Mac Home Entertainment Wall Unit
Got an outdated but still usable laptop that has a working DVD drive? Mac owner Phil Long converted his outdated laptop as a wall-mounted entertainment unit that operates as a digital photo frame, hom...
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Part Four -- The Final Chapter
click for more pics In our final installment we meet up the the Janssen's again. You may remember them from our previous look at their home office on the road as well as their previous entry into the...
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