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Get Your Health On with Nintendo Wii Fit Plus

The Wii Fit Plus launched this weekend, giving us some second thoughts about trying out the "Insanity" program of infommercial fame for something more lax, digital and easy going. For those already wi...

Nintendo Drops Price of Wii Console to $199

Seriously, the Wii has revolutionalized gaming. Video games were once thought of as a single-person hobby enjoyed mainly by teenaged boys. But the Wii, with it's variety of multi-player, get-off-the-c...

Final Frame NES Controller Coffee Table

The NES Controller Coffee Table...

NES Cartridge External HD: An Homage to Old School Games

Just like a lot of people, we had Nintendo Entertainment Systems at home. It was the first console that started it all for a lot of game players. The others just followed this 8-bit wonder. Well, as a...

Black Nintendo Wii Now Importing to the US!

We told you that the all-black Wii console was hitting Japan on August 1st. Well you had to figure that some online retailer would be savvy enough to ship to the US and even accept USD for purchase&md...

All-Black Wii Console Gets A Japanese Release Date

Remember when we asked if you have a go-to color for gadgets? Well if your go-to color was black (as many of you said it was), you've probably had your reservations about adding the super-popular Nint...

Wiimotes Are at Home in Wii-Branded Cozies

One of the quickest and easiest ways to keep a gang of remotes from cluttering up the coffee table and looking tidy instead is to simply bundle them up into some kind of cozy. Whether it's a cloth bas...

Nintendo Controller Morphs Into Doorbell

OMG! We need this. We NEEEEEEED it. One very creative DIYer retrofitted an old school NES controller to be a doorbell. Once any button on the controller is pressed it sends a signal to the wireless ...

How To: Make a Lego NES Gift

Flickr user Arkov was kind enough to let us share his smile inducing instructions for making your own NES system out of Legos, making this a great surprise gift for the gamer in your life (and a grea...

Flickr Find: A Packed Entertainment Center

Admittedly, it's difficult to keep a sleek, uncluttered entertainment center when you're a fan of movies and video games and all of the consoles, cords and clamshell cases that come along with them. B...

Create Your Own Super Mario-themed Interior Like Conan!

We show you all kinds of ways you could take inspiration from video games and work it into your home in a really subtle way, like with these Mario castle brick benches. Even still, you probably wonder...

They're Never Too Young: A Yoshi-Themed Nursery

When it comes to raising your little ankle biters to grow up to be techies, it's never too early to start infusing them with the best that technology has to offer. Try to get your newborn hooked on ga...

Digital Soaps: Handmade Gaming Control-shaped Soaps

click for more pics Years ago when we worked in the field of video game publications we used to half-jokingly mention some of our coworkers regularly exuded a "ripe" bouquet thanks to their aversion t...

Tetris Planters Make Gardening a Puzzle

What a techie way to go green! It's so lame to pot your plants into the average square and circular geometric planters, the real geeks get growing with planters shaped like Tetris cubes....

Apple iPhone Meets Nintendo Game Boy

You didn't buy an iPhone because of the shiny exterior and sleek lines did you? No. You bought it because it's a superior communication device, even if it does have the disadvantage of not being a Nin...

Geek Rap: I Got 99 Lives and a Power Glove

Here's a little something to start off your week (Gotta love holiday weekends for turning Tuesdays into "Mondays"): An old school-style rap about playing vintage Nintendo. It's considered the "NES rap...

Modern Tech Fossils

click for more picsEver wonder what our generation would leave behind for societies thousands of years from now? Well wonder no more. Artist Christopher Locke has projected the future and designed ox...

Look! Namco's WiiWare Muscle March

We're posting this under the pretense that a home aerobic workout could be attained while playing this upcoming Japan-only Nintendo Wii game. The truth is we just wanted to post this because it's so ...

Good Questions: Suggestions for Basement Man-Cave

Dear Unplggd, I am moving into my first house with my wife at the end of this month. I was looking for suggestions on the man-cave which I will be using the finished basement for. I want to try to set...

An IV for Your PC, Nice Smelling Laptops, Getting a Better Wii Workout, and Pyramid PC Mod
Unplggd Slinks for 5.8.09

Dr. Hard Drive Bag: a USB computer diagnostic and repair kit shaped like a IV. This should come with every Windows computer sold. ASUS F6V Series Offers Infused With Scents : Each 13" laptop comes in...

Nintendo NES Mouse: Brings Back Some Memories

This is one sweet looking mouse. It reminds me of playing hours and hours on the NES at home, back when it was the best video game system in the world. Now, it just brings back some cool memories for ...

It's Earth Day! 5 Tech Energy Facts to Help You Conserve

Earth Day, founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 as an environmental teach-in, is designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. But just because the day is all a...

Get GPS Navigation On Your DS Lite: Never Get Lost Again

If you thought that GPS navigation was only for these GPS devices that you fit you in your car, you've got another thing coming. Nowadays, phones, watches, PSPs and other mobile devices have access to...

Wii Tower Storage Unit Makes the Wii Its Mini-Me

Gaming Consoles must be cursed by some strange voodoo warrior. They have complete control over your life with the power to take over your money, your time and your living room. Seriously, all the peri...

51,324 Legos Is Gonna Be Tough to Clean Up

Guess what's on display at Rockefeller Center in New York City throughout the month of April? If you guessed 51,324 Legos in the shape of the new camera-equipped Nintendo DSi, then you're exactly righ...