apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time


Posts tagged “Wii”

Xbox and Wii Aspect Gaming Towers

The hard part about being a gamer is being a gamer who loves their apartment aesthetics. So, we find ourselves coming up with solutions to store away all of our gaming peripherals (or to shamelessly f...

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...

What is the Best Video Game Ever?

As everyone's getting their Fantasy Football teams ready, the ladies at Geek Sugar are gearing up for a different sort of tournament......

Would You Split a Big Buy with a Friend?

Just like you share custody of a kid or a book, you can share tech with your besties. In fact, having a parter going into making a big, fun purchase—like a Video Game Console—makes it imme...

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...

Wii Balance Board Stand and Charging Station from Mad Catz

Wii Fit, with it's motion-sensing balance board, is a home exercising force to be reckoned with. It's a perfect rainy day solution for active people in small, cool spaces who most certainly don't have...

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...

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...

Gray Scale Desktop, Anti-Swine Flu Keyboard, Affortable Macs, Leaf Keychain Speaker and the Shii
Unplggd Slinks for 4.30.2009

The Color Method Monotone Desktop: A complete gray scale OS X UI overhaul keeps things simple and easy on the eyes. Washable Keyboard: Worried about Swine Flu? Wash your hands...but you might also wa...

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...

Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS Want to be Like Wii

Way back in August, we reported that the Xbox 360 gaming console from Microsoft was going to upgrade their controllers with some Nintendo Wii-like motion conrol. Well unlike 90 percent of the rumors y...

Design Flaws that Ruined Great Gadgets

Popular Mechanics published an article featuring five smart gadgets that were ruined—ruined!—by stupid design flaws. Clearly, this was a link we had to post and share. We went inside expec...

Always Use Protection: Read-Through Skins for Media Disks

Our media disks have a lot of everyday hazards to deal with every day. You think nothing of a closing DVD player drawer or a delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but for DVDs, CDs and Video Gam...

Asus Eee Box PC makes HDTV Connectivity a Cinch

The Asus Eee Box PC is one heckuva good-lookin' desktop computing machine. When we heard the first version, the Asus Eee Box B202, was coming to the States, we were ecstatic. Now, the newer Asus Eee B...

Roundup: Media Servers

Economically, there's nothing better than to have one computer holding all your media while all your other devices stream it directly over your network. Unfortunately, like many things, it's almost al...

'Slightly' Sweat-Absorbing Hemp-Wrapped Wii-Mote

Admittedly, we here at Unplggd always go for a clean, sleek form factor. We love the look of a nice aluminum Apple iMac, an elegant Bang & Olufsen television or the white, shiny Nintendo Wii. But if y...

Do You Leave Your Gaming Console On All the Time?

We'd like to think that most of the readers of the Apartment Therapy family of sites (That's all those links resting at the very top of this page) are in favor of making green choices in their life. S...

X-Biking: Like Wii Fit, But Xtreme

Having the willpower to exercise is not always easy, otherwise everybody would be perfectly toned and tight and Krispy Kreme doughnuts would sell through the roof. But playing video games? Well any ha...

How Did They Do That? Wii Balance Board

Inspiration comes from everywhere. Nature, travels, books, sumo wrestlers. What? Yes, Sumo wrestlers. The Wii is clearly a success for all age groups, young and old, and it is all because anyone can w...

How To: Camouflage Your Wii Sensor Bar

Honestly we didn't think that the Wii sensor bar, the thin bar that you probably put on top of your TV to read your Wii-motes' signals, was ever a mess to hide. Nintendo did a pretty good job of makin...