Tag: Car | Apartment Therapy

"Coffee Cup" Car Power Station

We talk about apartments—a lot. But for those of you super-travelers who seem to live in your car, here's a tech solution for powering your gadgets......

Found: DIY Laptop Car Mount

Now, lets pretend for a moment that the idea of mounting a laptop to the dashboard of your car is a good idea. And in this pretend world if we liked to keep things thrifty, we'd suggest to you, this...

How to Make Your Own Portable Air Conditioner

Summer's here and we are all sweating. If you spend any time outside, you'll end up wet. Things are worse when you get to hotter climates. Summer is also the time for drives to see relatives, friends ...

A Cup Holder Mounted Laptop Tray Saves Hundreds of Dollars

By no means do we encourage you to use your laptop while driving, but there are a lot of people out there who need to use their laptops in their cars. From our recent research on these traveling offic...

Ford Work Solutions: The Home Office on Wheels

We are spending a lot of time in cars. It's just common sense to have some kind of mobile work integration, so that all those hours spent in gridlock can actually be used for a purpose, instead of jus...

Have You Lost Tech in a Tragedy?

That up there? Yep, that's my car. One second I was cruising through a green light and the next second I was crushed, cut up, bruised—and minus one iPod. In all the bumping around, everything th...

Tech Myth: Holding the Car Remote to Your Head Increases Its Range

This entry comes to you courtesy of the fact that I've heard this myth told to me more than once in the past few weeks my friends and complete strangers alike. My car's keyless entry remote, for lack ...

Best Product: Belkin Micro Auto Charger for USB Devices

Tired of having your iPhone's terrible battery life come back and haunt you (we have proof here, here, and here)? Oh, but you don't want to buy yet another car charger specifically for your iPhone? W...

The New Bored-In-The-Car Game: Guess the Gadget

I just got back home to Atlanta after a weekend road trip (24 hours in three days, whew!) to my hometown of Miami to be a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding. As soon as we hit South Florida, aka t...

Re(al)view: Insignia NS-CNV20 4.3" GPS

click for more picsWe've been testing our first portable GPS unit for the last two months, using it on interstate trips and also day-to-day commutes, mostly getting to our destinations faster and easi...

Task Lamp Modeled After Car Suspension

Are you into cars? What better way to show it than with this lamp, which features a model of a car suspension system as the main design element. We never thought that the things you'd find hanging aro...

The Living Room On Wheels: An Interview With Nissan

click for more pics We here at Unplggd really love our home electronics and so forth, but what happens when your home is more mobile? In this day and age, we spend so much time in our cars that it wo...

Java Juice: Power Inverter Disguised as a Coffee Cup

While this isn't technically in the home, some people spend so much time in their car that it might as well be their home. Cell phones, portable GPS systems, MP3 players, even laptops. These all seem ...

Turn Car Trips Into Your Own Custom Arcade Game

Carcade is a concept created by three students at Berlin University of the Arts for an in-car videogame which captures the passing landscape, like trees and buildings, and creates a game stage based o...

News: The First Cell Phone/Car Key Remote Hybrid is Here

If you're like us, you've got a short, memorized checklist of things you need before you walk out your door. (If you're a good little AT'er, you've got them all up on your landing strip). Ours is car...

Vi-Fi is Gaining Ground, How Many Wrecks Will Result?

We can't see any practical and legal uses for having a Wi-Fi signal in your car on the highway. There's no reason to be looking at a screen (GPS, over a satellite signal, would be the exception here)....

Drivemocion: When a Middle Finger Just Won't Do

It's amazing if you think about it: We've come so far in the world of communications in the last 20 years. But even in the digital age of internet, our inter-vehicle communications are still limited t...