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Amanda's Mid-Century Media Room
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A few weeks ago, Amanda shared her lovely home in Ohio with us, along with a thorough walkthrough of her adventurous TV mounting project that would eventually marry her love for tech and her excellent...

LG Flatron W30 Series: Your Laptop's Colourful Sidekick

As a laptop user who has a secondary monitor to expand desktop real estate, we can vouch it's an investment worth every dollar in utility. But if you're looking for a monitor beyond the typical black,...

Framing a Flatscreen with a Wooden Crate Frame?

Here's a low cost, slummin' it type of idea that might work if you're desiring a found object storage solution for your flat panel television. The rooms at Berlin designer Werner Aisslinger's The Mich...

Falmec Vision Range Hood Puts TV in The Kitchen

Stainless steel range hoods in the kitchen? That's old school and oh-so low-tech. Bring your stove into the future with an all-in-one venting range hood and LCD TV combo......

JVC HDTVs Go Ultra Thin and 3D

While other manufacturers have just announced that they are going to work on 3D HDTVs, JVC has already jumped the gun and released one! Wait, is there actually 3D content available on the market right...

SunbriteTV Brings Home Entertainment Outdoors

Here in Los Angeles where the backyard is just another room in the house, outdoor entertainment doesn't just mean BBQs and pool parties. People are hosting movie nights with projectors, bringing home...

Dhesja Frame TV Sets Decorate & Display

Dhesja partnered up with electronics manufacturer Loewe to create a LCD display that blends into wall decor by framing the the 100 Hz HDTV displays in luxurious materials like Swarovsky crystal and c...

Cash for Plasmas? California Talks About Banning Energy Sucking TVs

As the U.S. aims to weed out energy and gas guzzlers, the California Energy Commission (CEC) plans to take a vote on a controversial requirement that would restrict the sale of inefficient TVs starti...

Newest Cordless Phone Trend: LCD Screens?

While linking your cordless phone to your cell is cool and all, what about adding a 7" LCD touchscreen? Mix in a bunch of nifty functions and voila - instant industry revamp! ...Or is it?...

Distilled Water is Best to Clean LCD Screens

No fancy and expensive chemicals, no crazy contraptions. This LCD-screen cleaning method is all about the right (natural) materials, a clean cloth and great technique......

10 Best Multi-Monitor Mac Setups

A reader recently directed us over to one of his favourite sites, Meoeo.com, noting they've got a small selection of great Mac setup images, notably multi-monitor configurations with desktops, LCDs,...

Customizable Art Four LCD Folding Screen

One day integrated displays throughout the household won't even be a thought or luxury. More affordable display technologies like OLED tech will likely make customizable surfaces for art, computing, a...

Inspiration: A Mid-Room Pole Mounted HDTV

While some prefer masking their HDTV's with a cabinet or box in their bedrooms, others prefer it out in the open; news at your fingertips, Blu-rays at an inch's reach, and gaming on demand. People lik...

Media Furniture with Fold-Out Bed!

People who live in small spaces sometimes need creative solutions for where to sleep overnight guests. We thought we'd seen it all until we spotted this Poppi Theatre system from Resource Furnitur...

Philips LightFrame LCD Eases Eye Strain Thru Light Therapy

Philips designed the LightFrame 220XW9 widescreen LCD display in similar fashion to their line of Ambilight technology televisions with a peripheral lighting system which eases eye strain and perhaps...

Inspiration: Sleek Tech Ideas from a Copenhagen Penthouse

Taking the black and white theme to overdrive, the Danish bunch over at NORM architects have created a modern space that's subtle with tech, but heavy on ideas. From recessed lighting, TV mounts, and ...

Final Frame: Transparent Wallpapers

Inspired by today's earlier post about the design studio of PlayLab Inc., a collection of transparent screens gathered by Flickr user w00kie....

Panasonic Proves Plasma Is Still Big, Twilight Ready

There's nothing wrong with dreaming, which is what you'll probably be doing once you've learned that Panasonic is planning on rolling out a brand-spankin' new 85-inch 1080p plasma screen this coming F...

DIY Project: TV Framing From a Budget Hotel in Berlin

If you're a constant traveler (and you're not doing the hostel thing everyone's so crazy about), you might take notice to some pretty nifty ideas hotels have to offer these days. Take this budget hote...

Color-Shift Particles: The Future of Outdoor Displays

The outdoor home theater of the future is going to be super-high-tech if this new display technology catches on: Tiny nanoparticles that shift colors in response to external changing magnetic fields. ...

More PC Desktop Space on Less Real Desktop Space

Life's better with multiple monitors. It's just a fact. You get tons of extra space to spread out toolbars and open up pages. But the trade off is that as you gain more virtual desktop space by adding...

OmniMount Makes TV Mounting A Breeze

We've shown you guys how to pull off a wall-mounted TV in the past, but zip ties and huge apparatuses are so 2008. OmniMount hopes to change all that, with its new self-titled, 'Omnimount.' Hoping to ...

The First Thing to Do When You Get your New HDTV Home

If you've recently saved up some cash (or crunched a little closer to your credit card's limit) and finally bought that brand new HDTV you've been lusting after, you might be a little confused as to w...

Outdoor Home Theater: Smith & Hawken's 42" LCD Television