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Anti-allergy Bed Vacuum

Considering we spend a considerable percentage of our lives lying down in bed, one could assume making your bed as clean and allergen free would help overall health. One of the worst culprits for aggr...

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...

Pacman Roomba: Turn Your Floor into a Video Game

While I don't think I would ever take the time to wire up and program 448 LED's on top of a Roomba to look like PacMan while it is cleaning the floor....I can't help but stop and stare. Watch out dust...

Thursday Giveaway Winner!

Well a lot of you must have poopin' kittehs at home as we got close to 350 submissions for our Litter-Robot giveaway. We wanted to include the guinea pigs -- ehem, kitties -- who reviewed the Litter-R...

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...

Thursday Giveaway: Litter-Robot

Giveaway: Litter-Robot Find it: Buy via Amazon Ok potty people! A lot of you were digging on the Litter-Robot we tested last week so we've decided to give it away. Don't worry, this $329 litter box ...

Thursday Giveaway Update: Litter-Robot

via tlk We've gotten so many great LOLcat photos in already we just had to share. More hilarious reader made LOLcats after the jump. If you haven't yet submitted your name for our awesome Litter-Robot...

Green Idea: Clean Your Clothes with a Single Cup of Water

I'll believe it when I see it, but the concept is interesting nonetheless. Created by researchers at Leeds University, the trick behind only using one cup of water to wash an entire load of laundry li...

Product Review: Litter-Robot Keeps Smells Locked

Living with three cats means living with three sets of turds, sometimes twice a day. Now put that in a studio (we know – crazy cat lady = us) and you may as well have a cot within the sewer system. ...

Hot or Not? Karim Rashid Kruz Vacuum

Umm... It looks a bit like an amputated alien leg, but at least it doesn't look like your standard sucker. Designed by Karim Rashid, who also thought up Dirt Devil's Kone hand vac. We're not sure wh...

Asko: The Hidden Laundry Machine

If it were up to me, all the business bits of the house would be hidden behind panels and disguised as furniture. I just think it looks better. Dishwashers, (I have a GE profile that matches the doors...

BakVac: Ergonomic Vacuuming Powered Via Fuel Cell

Why drag around that 30 pound vacuum cleaner around the house when you could easily wear it as a backpack? Throw in a eco-friendly fuel battery to make it completely wireless? Sounds to us like a prac...

How To: Clean your Keyboard

Warning: Stop reading if you're eating breakfast. A new study has found that your keyboard may be five times as filthy as a toilet seat. Yes, you could be typing away on the equivalent of butt germs! ...

Maytag Osiris Drying Cabinet

Personally we believe in a very low tech and environmentally friendly solution for drip drying clothing: the clothesline. But Maytag recognizes some folks might find the tried and true drip drying met...

The Self Cleaning Toilet Seat

Flying through Frankfurt airport last week found me in the washroom and surprised by a self cleaning toilet seat. While the retracting scrub brush doesn't compare to the washing machine toilet co...

Air Aroma's Arologic: Wireless Aroma Therapy

Have a toilet downstairs that needs refreshing, but requires industrial protection to protect your nostrils from burning? No worries, Arologic has your back, claiming to be the world's first wireless ...

The Dirt on Vacuums

Bragging about your Dirt Devil goes hand in hand with drooling over two-ply toilet paper, in other words, it never happens. Appliances tend to get the shaft, hiding in pantries or closets until they...

Turbo USB Mini Vacuum

Sadly, my home and office keyboard could use this little vacuum. While compressed air is one option for getting the gunk out from between your keys, it would be much nicer to not have to try and gath...

Supersonic Sound: Coway's SWV-08AM Megasonic Cleaning Device

Thought it may look like a beautifully finished record player, this device actually uses sound waves to remove dirt, chemicals, and gunk off produce, meats, dishware, pots and pans with little or no d...

Mechanical Servant from 1961

Ah, the future. It's always fun to look back and see some of the inventions and ideas around technology that everyone would eventually be using. At least that's what inventor Claus Sholz thought. Case...

Selfy the Easy Bed: The Self Making Bed

The topic of making the bed has come up before. Some of you do it religiously while others are too lazy to do it at all. If you fall into the second category, there is now a bed designed just for you....

Spring Cleaning Tips - For Your Home Theater

Now that spring is here, as part of your spring cure don't forget about the home theater. Because of the nature of the equipment however, you need to take a little bit more care than when your are wi...

Weekly Dust Reminder: Clean Your Mouse

We hate the grungy dust and grit that builds up inside our beautiful white mouse. It gets kind of gross on top, too. So here's our weekly dust reminder, and we're focusing on the mouse... ...

1200 Watts of Steam Powered Anti-bacterial Cleaning

It's bathroom month over at the AT city sites, so we thought we'd throw in a gadget that seems well appointed for some serious bathroom cleaning duties: the Superheated Handheld Steam Cleaner....

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