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Posts tagged “Bluetooth”

Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker: Rock Out While You Wakeboard

Seeing as June is Great Outdoors month, you'll be seeing alot more "fun in the sun" products from all of us here at Unplggd. If you're planning a pool party this summer, you might want to check out th...

Key 2 Safe Driving Locks Up Your Phone Until You Park

Last week, we mentioned our concerns with distracted drivers when we told you about our road-rage-inspired road trip game, "Guess the Gadget." Commenter kambykitten said her super-commuting boss estim...

Headphones Inspired by Favorite Songs

Music inspires design. Design inspires music. It's a never ending cycle of sometimes oddball muses that keeps things in both industries fresh and innovative. But is this taking it a little too far int...

Water Droplet Headset: A Stylish Bluetooth Earring

I can't remember how many times I've come upon people talking with their Bluetooth headsets and thinking that they were speaking to me. Naturally they weren't, and I'm glad that I'm not the only one w...

I-Quad: The Landing Strip of the Future

If you don't yet have some version of the entry efficiency device known to the Apartment Therapy-devoted as a landing strip, then you need to get to work. Whether yours is a large foyer with full-size...

LG's Cute Keyboard: The Equivalent of a Bluetooth Headset

Typing and texting on your pitifully small phone isn't a pleasant experience for some people. Unless you're a 10 year old girl who can text as fast as I can touchtype, some people would prefer to text...

Boombench by NL Architects: Ghetto Blaster Meets Seating

What you're looking at is a bench that can play music transmitted via Bluetooth from your cell phone, a conceptual exploration of seating and interactivity that was displayed at Urban Play 2, an event...

Hanger Skype Phone: Great Design Helps Tech Stick

We have a friend living in London temporarily, but long enough that she got a new London cell and a new London phone number. Both of those things make it a pain (an expensive pain) to call her up in t...

Product Re[al]view: Panasonic's Link-to-Cell

After our past post on the 'cell phones only' vs. 'landline' debate, we know that a lot of you are keeping your landlines because of bad cell phone reception in your home. Here's the answer: the Panas...

The Mac Market is Hot and Targus Knows It

It's no secret (at least not to us here at Unplggd) that Mac-heads will stop at nothing to make sure their peripherals match their beloved MacBooks (read: they'll shell out loads of dough). It's that ...

Fujitsu Concept Phone Does What You Need It To Do

Another find from CEATEC 2008: The Fujitsu Concept Phone. A brilliant idea, this phone is made up of two pieces, one for a display screen and one touchscreen keyboard, that can be configured in a few ...

ThinkGeek Bluetooth Retro Handset

ThinkGeek's Retro Bluetooth handset is one funny design. Most of those Bluetooth headsets are just plain annoying. This system is for the people who don't like those clip Bluetooth headsets that make ...

Designer Tech: Emporio Armani Samsung Night Effect

Emporio Armani, the European fashion house, is not new to technology. A bit ago, we brought you the news that they were teaming up with Korean manufacturer Samsung to make a Plasma HDTV for your home ...

Blogging Wired: Antisocial Gadgets that Should be Banned

Sometimes technology designed to advance communication can actually work to set communication back a few years (We're looking at you, Bluetooth headset guy that looks like he's talking to himself whil...

Does Anybody Use Handheld E-Dictionaries?

The writer in me wants to fly to Japan to shell out the Yen for this electronic dictionary. The rest of me, however realizes that I haven't owned or used an electronic dictionary since grade school. T...

Navigon 7200T: Functional and Cool-To-Look-At Features

GPS navigators are becoming more commonplace than we'd originally thought they might be when we started to see them a few years back. They're the next-wave MP3 player; in the beginning, a few people h...

New Polaroid Camera Fills The Insta-Pic Void

We know a bunch of you were upset to hear the news that Polaroid was going to stop developing their iconic instant film. We share your pain. The good news is that Polaroid has not closed up shop for g...

Credit Card Pig Bank is an Old Friend With a New Life

It seems like we’re always a fan of seeing our childhood favorites go around the high-tech circle of life here at Unplggd. (Like Atari, Hello Kitty, and Duck Hunt, for instance.) We guess it’s kin...

Arachnophobia: Flynn Product Design Bluetooth Webcam Concept

Might this be the Alessi juicer for the tech set? Somehow we doubt it. We do have to give props to Flynn Product Design for going out on a limb and taking the webcam in a totally new direction. If you...

SOLo Lounge Table: Solar Power Desktop

Hmm, using electronic displays in bright sunlight is usually something we avoid, but maybe if we could afford a SOLo Lounge Table from Intelligent Forms we'd think differently. The whole tabletop is c...