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Pimp Your Seats With Seat Heating

Are you finding your leather seats too cold? Well, look no further, because we've found an idea that's quite interesting. It involves installing some seat heating into your seats to make them warmer ...

Keeping a Chandelier Out of the Way of Projectors

You spend all your time and money pimping out your house with the hottest furnishings and most up-to-date tech you can find and how does Karma repay you? By making sure your expensive living room ligh...

Matthew's TV Console Turned Into Record Cabinet Conversion

Yesterday I posted a roundup of instructions showing my project that converted a free curbside find into a record storage solution. Reader matthewhambrick commented and shared his similar vintage DIY ...

DIY: Make Your Light Strings Dance to Music

If you're planning a holiday party this year, we've found a DIY project that is sure to set the mood and delight the senses of your party guests....

How To: Magnetize Any Screwdriver

Putting together Ikea media cabinets or taking apart electronics to hack certainly requires a whole lot of tiny metal (and easily lost) screws. Take your trusty, heavy-duty screwdriver and give it a l...

How To: Make Your Own Record Collection Storage Unit…
…All for Under $100

Unplggd reader dmstudio posed this request in yesterday's A Record Lover's Storage Solution: The Atocha Record Cabinet comments: "I would love it if Unplggd could find some stylish record album storag...

Retro Video Game Textiles & Cross Stitching Home Goods

We were perusing some of the fabric options over at an Etsy shop when we noticed they were selling an assortment of Space Invaders inspired printed textiles, perfect to craft together an Invaders th...

Modern Chair Made from an Old Radiator

We've seen tons of designers do their thing and make working radiators look oh-so-cool. But one designer in the Netherlands had his eye on a broken radiator......

Make Your Own 9V Battery-Powered USB Charger

Battery-based USB chargers are pretty cheap, but it's always cheaper and more fun to make your own. The basic concept is a battery that powers a USB port so that you can juice up your gadgets. ...

Andrew's Ingenious Floating Monitor Home Office
Tech Tour

Name: Andrew Flynn Location: Chandler, Arizona Type: Home office When we saw Andrew Flynn's amazing home office, we knew that we had to do a tech tour of his place. The great DIY features really s...

How To: Reuse Old Light Bulbs as a Flower Vase

DIY YouTube star, Giannina Lezcano, show us how to reuse old clear-style light bulbs as decorative elements around the house. And don't blame us for what she's wearing......

Cooling Down Your Media Unit With Computer Fans

With all the new gear that goes into your media unit or entertainment center, depending if it closes completely, you might want to add some cooling measures so that your gear doesn't overheat. ...

DIY Tilt Shift Camera Hack
Flickr Find

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...

Dim Too-Bright Standby LEDs with Lithographer's tape

We're not fans of standby lights. Sure, they're electricity vampires, but the worst thing is how annoyingly bright they can be when you're trying to get to sleep in pure darkness. Here's a way to dro...

DIY Kit Lets You Coil a Cord Lamp

We're seeing the trend lately that lamps getting proud about showing off their cords, but they've all been high-design (read: really expensive) items—until now......

Customize Your Bookcase with Digital Photos

Here's an idea for converting that standard IKEA Billy bookcase into something more personal using printed/enlarged digital photos, as shown over at Votre Billy, a French site dedicated to customizin...

Old School Robotics: DIY Rotating Wood Crank iPhone Dock

When we think of cranks we think of winding cranks made to power electronics or the ones made to power up the first cars. Cranks are useful and have been used for centuries. This is the first time tha...

Make a Polished and Modern Concrete Desk

It looks like this workspace is still waiting to be all wired up from the photo above, but the potential of this modern poured concrete desktop is obvious—and it's all DIY!...

How to Build Your Own DIY Word Clock

There is something incredibly beautiful about the QLOCKTWO, but we just can't justify spending over $1,500 to get a simple clock, even if it is a piece of art. Luckily DIY-enthusiasts have been workin...

Blackberry 'Dock' From an Ikea Bamboo Soapdish

A trip to Ikea can get crazy with crowds, but the Ikea Marketplace is still the best place in town to grab those small home necessities on the cheap. Plus, if you're lucky—or if you read Unplggd...

Alonso's Brings Music Into the Bathroom

Unplggd reader Alonso sent us a DIY audio speaker solution which brought music into his bathroom with a handsome finish that would make any shower or bath a more relaxing (or exciting) time accompan...

DIY LED Indicator Tells You When the Garage is Open

Those nights spent sitting up in bed wondering if the garage door is open will be a thing of the past if you put this DIY project to work in your home......

Teddy Bear + Digital Photo Frame = DIY Project

To be honest, Unplggd reader Siobhan's DIY teddybear scares the heck out of us, perhaps because we were always bit wary about Teddy in the movie A.I.. But from a tech standpoint, it's a pretty cool DI...

The Ultimate DIY Dorm Desk

Depending on what your home office situation is like, you'll most likely need a big desk. We've had a bunch of different desks, but none of them had the features of this DIY desk, which was actually m...

DIY Your Own Star Trek Bridge Chair

Think of the Burke 115 chair as the cousin to the more traditional favorite, the Saarinen Tulip Chair. Similar in shape, but sporting a different base and slightly different back, this chair is a pe...

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