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Posts tagged “set top appliance/ DVR”

ICFF: Geneva Lab's Latest Furniture Music

Despite only being a prototype, we made a beeline for this beautiful media center as soon as we walked into the International Contemporary Furniture Fair yesterday. Designed by Geneva Lab, who made th...

Flickr Finds: Multitasking Wallunit

While perusing Flickr for décor ideas we came upon a New Yorker's solution for packing a media center, library, and home office in one wall within her small bedroom. Using Ikea's Ivar shelving unit...

Look! Best Tech in Small Cool 2008 -- Part 5

This year's Small Cool contest has brought in a lot of great ideas for hiding technology. Dave and Rob of San Francisco are no exception. They used vintage furniture and accessories to help balance t...

Crate and Barrel's All-in-One Media Center Solution

We just got Crate and Barrel's catalog in and are psyched to see a well designed media center at a reasonable price. The cabinet has creative solutions for holding and hiding your flat screen, DVDs,...

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 ...

Flickr Finds: Zen Media Center

If you've ever gone to a spa you've probably noticed that pebbles and rocks play a large part in the décor. There's something relaxing about carefully arranged rock gardens, so it makes sense that yo...

Set Top Confusion?

Don't worry George, we're as confused as you are. The whole format war between HD DVD and Blu-Ray is beginning to look all for naught with the glut of set top boxes entering the market, bringing stand...