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Best Prank Ever? Real-Life Dead Pixel in Google Earth

Dead Pixels are annoying little dark bits you'll see on your screen when a bunch of teeny tiny subpixels are permanently off. It might be a broken transistor or just a pixel that's stuck on black. Or ...

Flickr Finds: The Refined Way to Sticker Your Laptop

Did you see the post yesterday on whether or not you plaster your machine with stickers? Some of you said the style was right up your alley, but some thought that stickers make your laptop look messy....

Verpan Lighting: Using Wires... As Art?

While most of us are OCDC when it comes to stowing away our wires, but until everything goes wireless, we might as well embrace it. Or at least, that's what the team at Verpan Lighting has done with t...

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...

Final Frame: The Physical Value of Sound

The Physical Value of Sound Exhibition...

Cassette Tape and Film Reel Celebrity Portraits

We can't decide what we love more about this collection of art featured on Flickr by user iri5: the fact that these are brilliant portraits of celebrities crafted entirely out of lines of tape and fil...

The Periodic Table of Controllers
For All You Gaming PhDs

Gamers, we understand your pain. We know the how hard it is when you're trying to explain how many buttons are in the original Atari Jaguar controller circa 1993, but no one really seems to care or ac...

Check Out This Human Machine Interface: Dr. Ho's For Your Face

With Apple announcing updates to the iPhone OS what we have come to know as the human computer interface keeps evolving and getting better. But damn, we hope our relationship with technology doesn't ...

Rad Radiators: The Kone Master Does It Again

Straight from the Museum of Arts and Design, New York exhibit opening later this week, the innovative mind behind the Dirt Devil's Kone vacuum, Karim Rashid, prepares to unleash another storm of house...

Final Frame: SkateDub

SkateDub...more below....

Padma Lakshmi's Self-Absorbed Computer Screen Saver

Have you all been over to Apartment Therapy yet to see the sneak peek that Harper's Bazaar provided into Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi's home? It's worth a gander to see a beautiful woman showing off he...

Your Favortie Parts of NYC Life, Through Legos

We love this! It combines two of our favorite things on Unplggd and the AT family: Geeky tech and pride in your city. Ok, so Legos aren't really tech. But it just seems like the iconic colorful plasti...

Video Game Titles Fashioned Into Book Covers

We stumbled upon this collection of popular video game titles re-imagined as if they were books and art made of their cover illustrations. We think a bunch of these would make great pieces to hang on ...

Look!: Techie Grafiti

Check out this gallery of found street art over at Kontraband, all with some tie to the geek world of computers, software and video games. Some are clever, some are cool and others are just there to m...

Probably a First: A Lamp for Fans of ABC's Lost

Any Lost fans out there? Is there anybody counting down to January 21st with me? I just bought season four on DVD and I intend to have a little marathon this weekend. But I have to say, the only "deco...

This is Possibly the First 17th c. Swordfight on Google Maps.
Possibly.

Google Maps has a lot of great potential to help you with little life-and-home-related tasks. We've already seen it used to help you map out an efficient array of solar panels and to find the optimal ...

Hot or Not? DNA Art

We have seen custom fingerprint artwork before, but you met it with 'overpriced' and 'an easy do it yourself project'. Now the same company is digging deeper with mini portraits that displays your DN...

Take Your Own Focal-Point Worthy Photos with Flipbac

It's really easy to take bad pictures. Having taken a few photography classes in school and learning rules about perspective and composition, we'd like to think that we make less mistakes than most am...

Wall Clock Made From Old Hard Drives

A great clock hung ever so gently on am empty wall can be such a statement piece in a room. When the statement says, "I'm a computer nerd!," like with this hard drive clock, we love the idea even more...

Free Art for Your iPhone

We may be one of the few people who hasn't had a drink from the iPhone kool-aid. We're resisting, just barely, but we're still resisting. Our Blackberry 8330 has been working for us just fine, but on...

Make BIG Posters From Little Images for Free

You can have instant monster wall art for free! Caveat Emptor: The quality of the finished product is only as good as your printer specifications and your patience with the assembly. If your style is ...

Final Frame: Millions of Keys

22, 528 recycled computer keycaps and 192 custom keycaps, those are the number of keyboard keys that went into the construction of TEXTile, a customized active keyboard and interactive software instal...

Final Frame: Sound Wave

The 'Second Lives' exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design. If you are not trying to store them, it sure doesn't hurt to turn them into something interesting to look at. The first thing that comes...

Look! Old Tech Shelf Museum

We've seen, more than once, people that like to display old, outdated technology as if they were art pieces. This shelf display from Randy Pitchford's office, one of the founders of Gearbox Software, ...

Final Frame: Short Message Stitch

Embroidered Text Messages, received 02/06-04/07 by Ginger Anyhow...