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Do You Need to Own a Digital Camera?

We spotted this Nintendo DSi case—designed to maximize the built-in camera with an 8x optical zoom—over at OhGizmo!, and ever since then we can't help but wonder if we'll never need to car...

DIY Tilt Shift Camera Hack
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We've talked about tilt shift photography before with a snazzy iPhone app, it helps with selective focus and miniaturing subjects in your photographs. But, buying professional gear to make it work i...

Take it Easy, Party Historian: Party-Shot Camera Dock

You know how there's one friend in a group that's always the one taking pictures? They're ready for anything —a road trip, a birthday dinner, a late night bar hop—with their point-and-shoo...

Joby: More Than Just Tripods

Joby's Gorillapod is a well-known, lightweight, compact tripod solution that let you fix your camera in pretty much any situation. Now, after the success of the Gorillapod, Joby will be launching Gori...

Schlage LiNK Lets You Control Your Home From Afar

One of the main concerns of any homeowner is what happens to their beloved place while they are away. This is something that causes as lot of worries. You are not there and you have no control over th...

Make Your Own Charging Pocket from a Shampoo Bottle

At home, we've got our cell phone's power cord "wired" (read: we taped it) behind the headboard, giving us just a little piece of the business end of the charger sitting on our pedestal nightstand. Bu...

What Are Your Tech Travel Neccesities?

July is travel month at Unplggd and I'm happy to tell you that I'm leaving for Boston in the morning and spent last night packing. In an effort to save some cash (read: I'm broke), I decided not to ch...

GeekSugar Offers Up DIY Charging Station Tips!

Kim Gets Vintage for Inspiration: Camera Stacks

We're still in love with vintage cameras up to this day. They're so borderline steam punk, yet so functionally chic that it gets us feelin' all inspired inside every time. It's also why we're totally ...

Velvet Media Bags Are Great For Storage, Travel

We give plenty of thought to storing all of our tech parts and pieces, coming up with easy and inexpensive solutions like repurposing old photo storage boxes. But it's nice to see that we're not alone...

Good Questions: Cheap, DIY Outdoor Security Options?

Julian from Winters, CA writes: Hey Unplggd, I've had a few hooligans TP (aka the classic toilet paper prank) my house a few nights in a row now and it has become quite a nuisance having to wake up ...

Grassy Lawn Charging Station: Nerds Love It, Re-Nest Approved

While we're pretty sure these Tetris-inspired gardening puzzle pieces probably came out first, who would've thought that adding a punch of functionality (and replacing it with some fake grass) would t...

Color Pinhole Surveillance Camera Disguised as Power Outlet

We never did trust you. Maybe it was your shifty eyes, those beads of sweat always covering your upper lip, your habit of always shaking your leg while seated. We always suspected you were the one ch...

Nest Box with IR Camera Lets You Be a Peeping Tom

We're in a bit of a dilemma here, as a pair of pigeons have taken to nesting within an opening inside our apartment building. The last time we called the management, despite asking them to wait, the w...

Make Sure Your SLR Wears His Seat Belt Camera Straps

It kind of makes sense in a metaphorical way: We use seat belts to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe while we're riding in cars. Why couldn't we use seat belts, manufactured to of course include ...

Vivitar Jumps In With a Vintage-Bodied Digital Camera

Several months ago, we showed you Olympus' Micro Four Thirds Camera. It was a modern digital picture snapper with the stylings of an SLR from the 1970s. At the time, we didn't have any price or specif...

Hole-In-Stomach Halloween Costume Gets Tech Assist

So its a little early for Halloween, but when a costume this clever can be constructed with just a little tech know-how, we'd be fools not to pass it along. Flickr user evanbooth appears to have been ...

Inspiration: Other Vintage Tech Worth Displaying?

We've been hitting the thrift stores and eBay a little bit more than usual lately ever since our recent obsession with vintage cameras. After a while, we started picking up other interesting things ra...

IDAPT Charger Makes Wires Dissappear

If Unplggd was a superhero—perhaps we'll call him The Unplggd Avenger—his platform would be to rid the world's homes of ugly tech and his only weakness, his Kryptonite we should say, would...

Keep Your Gadget on a Leash. No, Really.

Kids are precious cargo. We strap them down and wrangle them in everywhere we go, with the really paranoid among us controversially tying their kids the the other end of a leash. So in the case of our...

Look! LEGO Camera: No You Can't Take it Apart!

LEGO is a favorite of ours. Most of us have played with the bricks when we were children, which is why we still love them. There are a number of things that are available in LEGOs, from computers to s...

Braille Polaroid Camera: Feel the Picture

The blind and visually impaired may not be able to see things clearly, but they definitely can “feel” them. This camera concept has a shape and functions like a conventional camera, but the only d...

The Manfrotto: Weird Name, Seriously Small Tripod

If a semi-permanent tripod mounted to your camera and built in with a case wasn't your style (you already have a case you like, maybe), and a water bottle tripod is juts not profesh enough for you (yo...

Clarifi: Protective Case with Built-in Close-up Lens for iPhone 3G

Most iPhone cases are relatively similar despite a wide range of different colours, materials and textures; slip it or snap it on, and that's about it. But Griffin Technologies iPhone case one-ups the...