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...
Posts tagged “hacks”
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Got an outdated but still usable laptop that has a working DVD drive? Mac owner Phil Long converted his outdated laptop as a wall-mounted entertainment unit that operates as a digital photo frame, hom...
Close-Up: Working from the Road
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...
Close-Up: Working from the Road
Part One
click for more pics As many of you may already know, when I'm not blogging I occasionally write for more traditional fare – magazines. In the April issue of Wired I wrote a guide of sorts on how to ...
Roundup: Six Geeky Coffee Tables
Game On!
click for more pics It's hard to live without a coffee table. Where would you put your glass of wine? Or rest your legs? But we here at Unplggd like it when some of our furniture multitasks and so we...
1957 Magnavox TV Console Converted Into Media Cabinet
click for more picsMaybe you grandfather has one of these old wood console TV's in his garage or up in an attic somewhere. Or maybe you'll be fortunate to find one at a flea market or garage sale. In ...
Tech Tour: Geneva Estate Chock Full of Goodies
Name: WÃ¥gensjö / Herberger Location: Geneva suburb (France) Size: 2,368 sq ft + 40,000 square foot garden Years Lived In: Since March 2005 >> Enter Slideshow What originally drew us to WÃ¥gensjÃ...
Roundup: Five Coolest Xbox Hacks
Game On!
We love hacks. It's one of the scariest things to do to your new gadget purchase -- ugh we can't imagine if we broke our Macbook trying to pimp it out -- so those who customize are some of the braves...
How To... Cram a 24-Core Linux Cluster in $30 IKEA Drawers
This may win the gold in terms of Ikea Hacks. Tim Molter and his friend Alex Nugent needed a ginormous amount of computational power for some projects and they wanted an inexpensive and elegant sol...
DIY Project: Lack Hack Turns Bookcase into A/V Cabinet
Oh the Ikea Lack line. How many ways can we hack thee? DIYers out there have found countless ways to use Lack shelves to shelve their gizmos. From a fan-cooled media cabinet to a monitor stand, the v...
The Mechanical Offline Steampunk Blog
Whenever I complain about my frustrations with tech to my parents, they remind me that back in their day, they had to look up information in 28-volume encyclopedias and get up off the couch to change ...
Hybrid Toyota Prius As Backup Home Generator?
We've fortunately not had to rely on a backup generator in our lifetime, but with California's earthquake history we now our neighborhood's abundance of Prius vehicles could possibly be tapped for bac...
Genius Idea of the Week: Lighting Up Dark Closets with Motion Sensor LEDs
God bless the editors of Martha Stewart Living. Over the summer we received Philips SpotOn LED light as a gift. We had no idea what to do with the thing. It sat in a drawer for months until we got th...
Helvetireader Streamlines Google Reader
Google recently updated its RSS reader's look. We don't like it any more than what they had before. There's just too much going on with all the little modular squares within squares. That said, we we...
DIY TV Riser: Use Door Stops to Lift your Boob Tube
We don't know about you, but we've often made sacrifices in our TV viewing because we just had to use a certain vintage credenza to hold our CRT. With our TV just a tad too low, we find ourselves slo...
'Slightly' Sweat-Absorbing Hemp-Wrapped Wii-Mote
Admittedly, we here at Unplggd always go for a clean, sleek form factor. We love the look of a nice aluminum Apple iMac, an elegant Bang & Olufsen television or the white, shiny Nintendo Wii. But if y...
Mod Master High Schooler Makes Lego Playstation
The Lego train is still going strong. Just one click into our Lego archives and you'll find such brilliant ideas as a Lego radiator, glowing block Lego lights and a super secure Lego safe. But we can ...
Millenium Falcon Mac mini Mod
Mac mini owner Derrick wasn't content just having his svelte Apple as a typical media center PC. His Jedi inclinations led him to combine his mini with a $20 Playskool Millennium Falcon toy into the u...
How To: Convert Your iPhone Into a Tiny Laptop
Typing on the iPhone has become easier with practice, but there's still no denying that typing on a tactile keyboard is still superior for speed and assurance. Japanese blog moyashi.air-nifty.com has ...
The Elect-o-meter Keeps Geeky Political Junkies in the Know
Apologies to any and all of you who are overwhelmed and sick of all this elections related news. We'd be the first to admit we're spending almost as much time on political sites and blogs as home and ...
Hot Posts 11.02.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts
We hope you all had a horrifying Halloween. We got our better half to dress up as Beavis, while we went as Butt-head. Some people got it, while others thought we were just dressed as the scumbags we ...
New (Free!) iPhone App Lets You Beam Photos and Contacts to Other iUsers
Remember when business types got all excited when they could beam contact information to each other via their phones using infrared. It was the digital version of giving someone your bidness card. So...
Hot Posts 10.25.08 This Week's Top Posts
Oh man. We spent the whole day at Lowe's, then Ikea, then building all the stuff we got at Lowe's and Ikea. Is there anything more fun than bringing back all the stuff you got for your home and setti...
Ikea Hack: Convert Pax Library To HDTV Media Storage
You know the situation. You just bought a new HDTV and you are trying to fit it into your room. It's not always easy and it's challenging, especially when you don't have a lot of space. One thing that...
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