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Posts tagged “LCD”

News: HDMI 1.4 is Coming to a TV Near You

It feels just like yesterday when we started seeing flat panels making their way into the mainstream market. Now, with already 4 revisions of the HDMI standard - the latest being HDMI 1.4, we gain the...

Look! Small Kitchen Loaded with Automation

When you live in an NYC high-rise where square footage is hard to come by, sacrifices must be made in order to accommodate one's love for electronics in a central space. Fortunately, they had one larg...

Close-Up: Pulver's Retro Modern Home Theater

click for more picsHave a love for vinyl? Dig wooden retro cabinets? Oh, and do you also get kicks out of hiding your woofer in cute little boxes? Well, get ready because you're gonna be in a for a tr...

How To: Have the TV Play a Smaller Part in the Home

We've always been a fan of keeping spaces minimal when it comes to incorporating tech into our homes. This means a lots of planning has to come into play before and after designing a space for that's ...

Good Questions: How Do I Clean My HDTV Screen?

Hey Unplggd, This may seem like a silly question, but I really need a cheap way to clean my super dusty HDTV LCD screen without damaging the matte surface. Any thoughts? -Inoj...

Framing Your Flat Panel

click for more pics Steve Miller of Teo Flatwear sent us some photos of his company's newest flat screen mounting accessories that aesthetically bridge the gap between mounting a set directly onto bar...

Survey: Widescreen Aspect Ratios, 16:10 or 16:9?

While many of us have come to accept the strange resolutions provided with the 16:10 aspect ratio seen on most widescreen LCD monitors over the years, we're starting to notice a slow push towards the ...

Motion Sensing Energy Saving Monitor by Eizo Nanao

We make it a goal any time we walk away from our laptop+external monitor setup to not only put the system to sleep, but also to turn off the monitor to save energy. It's a small step, but we're all ab...

Good Questions: How Do I Connect Two Monitors To My Laptop?

Here's a quickie for you guys. How do I connect two LCD monitors to my laptop when it only has one DVI out? Yes, three monitors may sound like complete overkill, but that's how I like it, k? So how ab...

Look! High Tech Haifa Apartment

Details are scant about this stunning monotone apartment in Haifa, Israel posted by the folks over at Blue Ant Studio. What struck us most about these photos was the home office with the huge power co...

Hot or Not? Flat Panel TV Covers?

Hmm, we like the idea behind Melissa's Instructables for a Flat Screen TV Cover. She has a point about keeping a valuable large panel screen protected from dust and scratches (our cats occasionally li...

Survey: Save Money By Buying an Off-Brand HDTV?

According to a recent report by our fellow high definition aficionados over at HD Guru, sometimes purchasing a cheaper "no-name" brand TV might actually cost you more in the long run. Comparing warra...

Another Fill-In LCD Product From Yellow Owl Workshop

Remember the draw-on LCD display cards from Yellow Owl Workshop we posted on Tuesday? Well the Yellow Owl Workshop is actually a small operation (Everything created, made and packaged by husband-and-w...

Draw-In Digital Message Cards

When you care enough to send the very best and most geeky greeting card you can find, you'll probably settle on these cards from Urban Outfitters' Web site that we spotted on always-on-top-of-cool-tec...

Dell: It's About Time Someone Got the Monitor Equation Just Right

If you're like us, you're LCD lovers that longed for the perfect desktop monitor. That is, a monitor that didn't leave an gaping chasm in our wallets, but still featured all the up-to-date options at ...

Flat Screen Recall
LCDs prone to bursting in flames!

Warning for anyone who recently bought an Insignia flat screen. About 13,000 26-inch LCDs (model IS-LCDTV26) have been recalled by Best Buy and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. According ...

Luxurite Kitchen TV: For Non-Stop Food Networking

If you've been tempted to add a TV to your kitchen before, but don't want a gigantic one overpowering your kitchen, you might want to check out Luxurite's Kitchen TVs. Marketed as a "lifestyle" produc...

Good Questions: To Project or To Not Project?

Amy from SF had this question for us: Hey guys! My boyfriend and I have been debating whether or not to go the projection route for quite a while now. We've heard a high definition projection setup i...

Bang & Olufsen: BeoVision 103-Incher Astounds, Empties Your Savings

If you're going to even throw down $135,000 for a TV, you'd better hope you're getting more than a huge plasma screen accompanied by a name. So, if an automated television stand that raises when you t...

Plantcraft & Technology Unite: Cosmo's Dunny Theater

There's nothing like an immaculate home theater setup to get us through our Thursday evenings. Above, we have Cosmo's hot man cove over at Minhembio. Uniting a black framed LCD screen against a black ...

ReBraun: The BMW of Digital Media Players

WiFi audio streaming? Twin LCD displays? All this packaged in a fashionable aluminum, acrylic, and steel casing inspired by a 1962 Audio 1 Kompaktanlage design? We've seen our share of retro MP3 playe...

Roundup: TVs In The Kitchen

Cozy or not, tech in the kitchen is so ubiquitous in our friends and families' homes that we figured, "Hey, why not just embrace it?" We've gathered a few ideas in case you're looking to toss a TV int...

Good Questions: Must... Find... This Perfect TV Stand

Unplggd reader James is lookin' for a little help in the TV stand department. Any takers? I recently moved in with my girlfriend in Boston and we have a really, really tiny space to pull all of our s...

Apple Notebook Logo Running as a Second Screen

That glowing Apple logo that's been a part of Apple's line of notebooks since the late 1990s has become the object of modders' affections. Whether it's using an old iBook and the glimmering logo as a ...