Tag: cables | Apartment Therapy

Maisie Maud Broadhead's Cable Art

Here at Unplggd we often extol the virtues of hiding cables and wires. Normally this is the preferred aim in creating a visually satisfying space, one devoid of visible hardware and cable clutter. B...

Philips Wireless HDTV Link Untethers High Def Content
Unplggd Test Lab

Name: Philips Wireless HDTV Link Price: $799 Rating: Strong Recommend* We review a fair share of our products here at Unplggd that impress us aplenty from a technical/home electronics perspective. ...

Art Lebedev's Rozetkus 3D Socket Cuts Down On Wires

Art Lebedev's most recent project is a refresher on their Rozetkus power strip. What's really interesting is that it's more than just a socket. It can deploy an additional 4 sockets from its midst. Fu...

Use Superbooster to Turn Any USB Device Wireless

This is another way of getting some of your peripherals wireless. This is just a small device in which you can plug a USB peripheral so that it can wirelessly connect to your home network. It is worth...

Colored Tape to Label Cords is an Easy Fix

Sometimes the easiest solutions are the hardest to come up with. Case in point: Using color-coded tape to label our most-used plugged-in cords. A brilliant, low-impact, no-brainer idea that we've neve...

AmazonBasics Private Label Store

Looks like Amazon is setting to take on ultra-discount consumer electronics accessories retailers like Monoprice.com with their new private label, generic packaged AmazonBasics. The selection includes...

IKEA GALANT and Pegboard Desk Modification

Friend and hiking blogger extraordinaire Kolby Kirk of 100hikes.com sent us his IKEA desk hack which utilizes pegboard and zip cords as a way to counter tech clutter by attaching hardware like a USB h...

Use Spiral Notebook Binding to Manage Wires

What do we have here? Well it looks like a simple solution to a common problem using only stuff you've probably already got collecting dust in a closet somewhere. We'll file this one under "Why didn't...

GRID-IT Helps Keep Your Tech Glut in Check

We like to consider ourselves pretty clean and organized by any standard. But there's an issue that plagues us regularly: tech clutter. It's part of our job to plug this in, route that around, and t...

Tech Tip: Clean Connections With A Coffee Filter

We've had some slow running internet lately and although we've just had new service installed, we still seem to be having a little lag. After checking that all the cables are actually functioning an...

Wiring as a Design Statement

Check out Maxwell's beautiful example found during his Italian travels where exposed wiring can actually add to decor, instead of detract, Perhaps with some of the DIY and product wire management so...

Roundup: Five Best DIY Cable Management Solutions

If there's one thing people tend to complain about post in and post out on Unplggd, it's messy wires. There isn't a post that goes by where someone doesn't comment, "Looks great! Now they just have to...

Use Rain Gutters to Wrangle Under-Desk Wires

BEFORE. Click here for the "after" shot.Above is the "before" shot of Lifehacker reader Seandavid010's tangled mess of a desk. But he got a new desk and a new outlook on cord management when he decide...

NY Times Untangles the 'World of Cables'

So, admittedly, some of us are not all tech experts. Even though we love a sleek MacBook and couldn't do without our iPod dock, we aren't exactly well-versed on all things home tech. Like we still get...

Before & After: Cablebox Disappearing Act

Here's a great before and after showing how the Bluelounge Cablebox can really get your jumble of wires and surge protector in order. The folks over at house42.com had the typical-normal tangle of wi...

An Easy Solution To Storing Your Extra Parts & Pieces

The addition of new, shiny gizmos and gadgets leaves us with the unfortunate byproduct of wires and cables we don't need. Getting rid of such things usually just means we'll end up buying them again...

The Perfekt Desk is Apparently Emo

What is the perfect desk? Does it have plenty of desktop space? Lots of storage space? A great cord-management system built-in? Technology-appropriate clean lines and modern touches? What if the perfe...

Tetsuo Shibuya Drop Desk Accessory

Japanese designer Tetsuo Shibuya came up with the Drop as a space efficient way to store away paper clips, using the normally unused space underneath desks with a colourful magnetic drip-drop form. B...

Look! Wooden Beaded Electrical Cord

Here's an interesting idea posted over at AT Boston as a Hot or Not: adding large wooden beads as a decorative element to electrical cords, effectively hiding away the unsightly necessity with some co...

Vine Cables: So Green That They Grow on You

I've never seen a good looking cable. Cords and cables are always unseemly. You just want to hide them away behind a desk or a closet. The fact of the matter is that our modern lives are intertwined w...

Two Ways of Cutting Down on Cable Mess

We all have problems with cables. The problem is that there are just so many of them, it's so easy to get the infamous cable octopus and not know how to take them apart anymore. It's a mess, and the o...

Keep Your Kitty Away from Your New iPod

We learned the hard way that pets and home technology should be kept separately. All it took was a new chew-y little bunny rabbit and a few delicious forgotten floor lamp cords behind the couch to fig...

DIY: Drawer Becomes Hideaway Charging Station

Pesky wires are always a problem with modern gadgets. All of those gadgets need to be charged. Strabes found an interesting solution to this problem. Strabes turned a drawer from a nightstand into a h...

Unplggd August 2007: How-tos and Where-to-find-its, including Laser Etching

Last August, Kelly showed us how to trim your coax tv cable all by yourself with just a few tools. That post was one of the most visited ones in Unplggd's history. Jump below for links to other usef...