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Posts tagged “computer monitors”

Dell Introduces a Windows 7 Ready, Multi-Touch Display

Look ma, we can pinch and zoom! Swipe to reveal jump lists! For those who are looking for a "complete," visceral Windows 7 experience, Dell proposes you grab one of their new 22-inch LCD monitors that...

Packard Bell Announces Multitouch Computer Monitor

Touch screen technology has become the hot add-on for all things tech. From cell phones to digital music players to ATM machines, it's like companies can't get enough of your finger smudges on their ...

Going BIG with AMD Eyefinity Multi-Displays

"More" seems never enough when it comes to computer specs and monitor real estate. And that's the thinking behind AMD's Eyefinity Multi-Display system, which sets out to bring a truly ultra hi-def im...

How To: Fix a Stuck or Dead Pixel

Chances are sooner or later you'll experience the annoyance of a dead or stuck pixel on your display. You can always try to massage it back to life physically using a massage or tapping technique, but...

gScreen Shows Off Dual Screen Notebook

We've posted about multi monitor set-ups a few times now. We know we need to jump on the bandwagon soon as blogging simply requires more screen space than our Macbook allows. A new laptop company, Al...

Cheaply Get Touch Capabilities for Your Laptop via USB Monitor

Touch screens are what most users really want. With Apple releasing their neat new mulit-touch touchpads for their MacBooks, the race is on to provide touch and multi-touch capabilities to users. Unti...

Philips LightFrame LCD Eases Eye Strain Thru Light Therapy

Philips designed the LightFrame 220XW9 widescreen LCD display in similar fashion to their line of Ambilight technology televisions with a peripheral lighting system which eases eye strain and perhaps...

More PC Desktop Space on Less Real Desktop Space

Life's better with multiple monitors. It's just a fact. You get tons of extra space to spread out toolbars and open up pages. But the trade off is that as you gain more virtual desktop space by adding...

15 Year Old Shocks Again
Upgrades Bedroom Office on Teenager Savings

click for more pics Remember that 15-year-old with the wicked bedroom office set-up? Well he just redecorated again! Lew needed a bigger desk and his TV was on its way out so he and his mom split the ...

Survey: What Are You Watching Hulu On?

We all know that both television shows and movies are moving away from discs and cable operators and towards the web. Even the cable companies know they have to come up with a way to jump on the 'net...

Close-Up: A Toronto Rental Gets an Overhaul
Before & After

click for more pics Jason Simmons recently moved into a 680 square foot apartment in Toronto and updated it with his own personal flare. As many of you renters already know, myself included, the amou...

Motion Sensing Energy Saving Monitor by Eizo Nanao

We make it a goal any time we walk away from our laptop+external monitor setup to not only put the system to sleep, but also to turn off the monitor to save energy. It's a small step, but we're all ab...

DIY Project: 20 Dollar Monitor Stand

click for more pics The bummer of working at an office, other than the commute and the occasional annoying co-worker, is that it's hard to make your cubicle really feel like your office space. Yes you...

New Laptop Screens to Cut Battery Use in Half

When One Laptop Per Child was announced it was hard to know whether or not the technological advances from the non-profit would be used outside the struggling countries they were developed for. If yo...

Flickr Finds: Fifteen Year Old's Impressive Bedroom Office

We don't know about you, but when we were 15 we could barely save up for a video game, let alone an entire workstation. Maybe we should have taken some lessons from this kid. Found on Flickr, Lewspei...

Steampunk PC: One Mean Looking Machine

Steampunk mods are elaborate affairs. In order to make anything look steampunk, you'll need to invest a lot of time so that it looks good. What I really like about these mods is that they make PCs loo...

Itching For Dual Displays On Laptops?

It seems that a lot of people have been going gaga over the dual displays of the new Lenovo W700DS. That is one amazing laptop, because it features a built-in digitizer, a full Qwerty keyboard and a s...

Look! Ball Chair With Built in iMac

How's this for a small footprint self contained home office? Well a really, really, really expensive chair that you would have to justify as a home office. The Sonic Chair has been here before and whi...

Flickr Finds: Milky White Home Office

There's something so impressive about finding an all white home office set-up. It looks so clean and classy, but man, it must be a second job keeping everything looking so spotless. The above set-up ...

How To... Mount Your Computer Screen

Like with televisions, computer monitors are getting flatter and flatter, which means you aren't limited to keeping your screen on a stand. Previously we looked at a whole Wall-Mounted Apple Rig and ...

F1 Screensaver: Simulate a Track With 15 Synchronized Monitors

We are definitely fans of multi monitor setups and funky screensavers. The extra working space, the bigger viewing area, the ability to simulate an F1 race track on your desk. What? Ok, the last one ...

Two in One: Digital Photo Frame that Doubles as a Mini Monitor

It is clear that you all feel that digital photo frames have just not caught on. Will they ever? Is it just too weird to power on your photos, or do you think that it is just a waste to have an elect...

MIMO 7" Monitor Adds Extra Space For Extras

Extra desktop space is, simply but, better. Much like the old adage of how nobody couldn't use more money, we here at Unplggd believe that nobody couldn't use more monitors. For all of the solutions t...

Look! Using Sidetables as Shelves

When Sait Alanyali got tired of his home office, he went to Ikea and grabbed some standard fare, to be used in not so standard ways. His new set-up uses two white Lack side tables as shelves on his l...

The Following Is a Test of the Emergency Cuteness System

We've talked about dolling up your computer monitor with felt in the past, and now we've found a felt option for protecting your computer monitor when you're away. Etsy user sallyenglanddesign has ...