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Posts tagged “projector”

The Somnus-Neu Bed Soothes All Your Senses

We thought our memory foam mattress was a big deal. Then our eyes fell onto the description and photos of the Somnus-Neu Bed, which is not so much just a bed, but a whole sleeping/rest environment t...

Elfa Shelving Houses Media Center Using Hardwood

We've posted many times about the genius of the Elfa shelving system. For people who don't want hulking billy bookcases storing all their sh--, um, stuff, the Elfa offers a solution with as much space...

Optoma HD20 First Sub-$1000 1080p HD Projector

A couple years ago, after months of research, we splurged and purchased a peach of a deal: a DLP HD projector. It changed our home movie viewing experience a thousand fold (and it was a crazy good d...

How To... Keep your Home Theater Speakers from Looking Loud

Electronic House rounds up the best ways to minimize your speaker footprint, from built-in wall units to fans with speakers designed within. One of our favorite solutions from the roundup is Atlantic...

Pico Projectors Get Brighter, But Still Not HD

Let's be honest. Despite how cool having a pocketable projector is (seriously, being able to play videos straight from your iPod Classic will get you plenty of cool points here at Unplggd), the crappy...

Acerbis Integrated Projection Screen Unveils Up!

The common solution for a projection screen setup is to either install a pull-down screen (like the one we have in our apartment) or to place or paint a permanent surface to project a picture onto. An...

Look! $6 Million Home Theater
Yowza!

click for more pics Wow. That's all we can say. This is a home theater to beat all home theaters. Obviously this isn't a realistic set-up for those of us that earn less than seven, let alone five, ...

A Family Creatively Finds Room for a Rear Projector

When the family who lives in this Electronic Home House of the Year bronze winning pad decided to install a barrel ceiling in their home theater room, they cut out the possibility to mount their proj...

Tiny Retro Handheld Projector

The Retro Cuboid Tiny Handheld Projector isn't going to give you the next IMAX experience, but we're still impressed to see projector technology shrunk down to the size of a juice box. This particular...

Extreme Lego: A Mini Cinema With a Working Projector!

Last weekend, I popped over to visit the neighbors with the family and came across the little boys work in progress. A lego cruise ship that was about 4 feet long complete with an integrated basketbal...

How To...Mount a Projector from the Ceiling

If we had a large enough apartment we'd be all about installing a projector and ditching the boob tube. While flat screens are sexy and all, it's pretty nice to be able to truly hide your media gizmo...

Survey: Do You Want to Beam Movies from your Cell Phone

This month Samsung releases their W7900 cell phone in Korea. What's so special about it? It has a built-in projector that can beam a 50-inch image on any surface. With digital light processing chips ...

Guest Room with a Multi(plex) Purpose
Metropolitan Home

Metropolitan Home's Met Home of the Year winner has a pretty kick ass media room. Karman Ng turned his fourth bedroom in his Berkeley, CA home into a home theater/library/guest suite. The room shows ...

High-Tech Hopsctotch

Does anybody else share my fond memories of chalking up the sidewalk outside your house on Saturday mornings? All the neighborhood kids would get together and draw pictures and play four-square and ho...

DIY Project: A Projector Screen that Plays Art Piece During Down Time

Projectors are great substitutes for televisions because they're a bit less invasive than say a 50-inch flat screen. You can easily hide a projector amongst books on a shelf, but that screen... Unles...

Last Minute Gifts: Sky Mall Edition

While flying the friendly skies the other day, once our laptop battery went kaput, we went old school and started flipping through our Sky Mall catalog. We discovered that amongst the crazy items, an...

Snapshots from Gizmodo's Gadget Exhibition

Friday night Gizmodo hosted an opening party for their gadget gallery in New York City. We took a look, camera in hand, at what the world of consumer electronics had once offered and will soon offer....

Go Small, Project Big with Pico's Cube Projector

Being marketed as having the "size and weight of a hen's egg," the Pico Cube Pico Cube from Epoq certainly fancies our addiction to hiding big bulky tech items that detract from the decor. The dimensi...

Hot Posts 10.07.08:This Week's Hot Posts

What a week. The stocks plunged, the senate and the house couldn't agree on a bailout until Friday, and Biden and Palin went head to head in one of the most watched veep debates in history. Well goll...

LG HS102 Projector: Movies on Your Wall of Choice

Ever feel like it'd be so much easier if you could pocket that projector and throw it up on any random white wall around the house to watch TV or a movie? LG hears ya - in fact, they've created an ult...

X-Series Dellegno: The Sinking Projection Screen

I wish I had seen this when I was renovating the basement. After flip flopping between a flat panel and a projector, the flat panel won out because I wouldn't have been able to hide the projector scre...

Look! 3M Pico-Projector Ships Later This Month

Pico-projectors have been the talk of display technology for the last few months. Finally, we will see the first pico-projector that's ready to hit the market later this month. This comes just after T...

Apple Portable Micro Projector

This great concept comes from designer Moti Barzilay, who decided to take things in his own hands by coming up with the iShow micro projector concept. We feel that this little projector would fit in r...

Sony: SXRD Projectors Claim Affordability, Fail Miserably

While we've been holding our horses for the next biggest thing to complete our home theater arsenal; high-definition projectors. However, it seems to be taking manufacturers a bit longer than expected...

Liquid-Cooled LED Projector

The Taiwanese OEM manufacturer Chi Lin has created a prototype of the world's first liquid-cooled LED projector. The liquid-cooled RGB LED light source will last for about 6 years of continuous use, m...