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Hot Posts 07.26.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

We went to the farmer's market today and saw John Tuturro. Just thought we'd share. After the jump a list of this week's hot posts. Some came back from the dead (throws up geek gang signs) and other...

Cyber Clean Keyboard Cleaner

Take a look at your keyboard right now. Are your formerly white keys now an off shade of gray? Does your keyboard look like it could be harbouring the next outbreak of influenza? There's a good chance...

What Makes You Snap and Stop Procrastinating?

Have you ever procrastinated so much in terms of cleaning off your desk that the one thing that finally gets you to do it is spilling a large glass of water over everything? Yah, welcome to my life. ...

Nagsourcing: Chorebuster.net

Here's Taylor again with a tip on how to get your lazy roommates to chip in. Passive-aggressive neat freaks, pack up your Post-it notes. Chore Buster is attempting to deliver home-task distribution ...

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...

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...

Weekly Reminder: Clear Off That Desk

As many of you may or may not know, May is our official "Spring Cleaning/Organizing" month, and this definitely applies to our desks filled with Post-its attached to our monitors, old mail, and endles...

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! ...

Where to Dump your E-waste this Spring

We have a love/hate relationship with Spring cleaning. It's definitely nice to purge your home of unnecessary clutter (trust us, you're never going to use that CRT monitor again). But the drawback of ...

Braille-Burste Keyboard Brush

Hova and Barrack both might be brushing their shoulders off, but we're more concerned about keeping the crumbs and dust off our keyboard. The classic looking handmade brush above can keep both your sh...

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 theyâ€...

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...

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...

Second Rotation: Cash For Your (Electronics) Trash

Yesterday we reported about the US Postal Services new "Mail Back" service, which allows people to rid themselves of small electronics. This is great for non-working items you know you can't sell or g...

Weekly Dust Reminder: Wipe the Top of Your Monitor

There's often no greater surprise than when you take a peek ontop your computer monitor...dust, dirt, animal fur...it's all up there. It's an often neglected region of your desk/desktop and we recomme...