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Juice Up Your iPhone The Green & Stylish Way

It's a common fact that you need to recharge your iPhone or iPod, no matter what. Usually, this involves plugging it into a USB plug or a power plug. Well, there have been quite a number of alternativ...

Blackberry 'Dock' From an Ikea Bamboo Soapdish

A trip to Ikea can get crazy with crowds, but the Ikea Marketplace is still the best place in town to grab those small home necessities on the cheap. Plus, if you're lucky—or if you read Unplggd...

Kodak Solar Charger Charge Your Gadgets With the Sun

It's a known fact that gadgets need to be recharged quite often. It's happened to everyone. It's easy to end up stranded with the power on your gadget just fizzling out. Once you have a dud, you are o...

A Great Way to Travel With Your Electronic Gear

When you are traveling, it gets hard to track all of your electronic gear. It doesn't take long for people to just throw them all in a bag and forget about them. That makes retrieving them almost impo...

SolarStrap: Charge Your Gadgets While Traveling

When you are on the go, it gets really problematic to charge your gadgets. Sure, you can find plugs to power up some of the easily enough, but it's not always possible. At some point, you will run out...

Tech Tip: Use a Plastic Card to Organize Cables

So you've arranged your desk so that all your necessary peripheral cords and cables are mostly hidden. You've made sure just the business ends of your iPod and digital camera cords are peeking out. Th...

Super Stelton To Charge XL: Modern Charging Station

The Super Stelton To Charge XL's anodized aluminum finish was designed specifically to keep charging at a cooler temperature, all the while looking modern and keeping cords and cables hidden inside th...

Make Your Own Charging Pocket from a Shampoo Bottle

At home, we've got our cell phone's power cord "wired" (read: we taped it) behind the headboard, giving us just a little piece of the business end of the charger sitting on our pedestal nightstand. Bu...

What Are Your Tech Travel Neccesities?

July is travel month at Unplggd and I'm happy to tell you that I'm leaving for Boston in the morning and spent last night packing. In an effort to save some cash (read: I'm broke), I decided not to ch...

News: EU Cell Makers Adopt Standard MicroUSB Charger

On Monday, all of Europe's top mobile telephone suppliers—including Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Apple, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, Research in Motion and Samsung—agreed to back an EU-wide harmo...

GeekSugar Offers Up DIY Charging Station Tips!

Midori AC Adaptor Mimics Plant Vines

Designer Shunsuke Umiyama's Midori AC Adaptor gives us flashback memories of the late 70's and early 80's when dear ole Mom used to like arranging hanging potted plants held up by macramé and from ou...

Do You Ever Buy Off-Brand Accessories?

Above: An obviously not Apple power cord attached to my very Apple PowerbookI've just moved and I'm still getting settled unpacking my things. In an effort to save some much needed cash, I took on the...

Solar Umbrella: Charges Your Gadgets While You're Having Fun in the Sun

Imagine all those great summer afternoons or weekends that are spent in your garden relaxing, wouldn't it be great if they'd find a way to harness all that solar energy? The trouble with solar panels ...

Blu Dot Juice Box

When we hear Blu Dot, we instantly think slick desks and slick chairs. Now we can add slick gadget charging accessories to that list. While we have showcased some nice DIY solutions to charging your p...

Best Product: Belkin Micro Auto Charger for USB Devices

Tired of having your iPhone's terrible battery life come back and haunt you (we have proof here, here, and here)? Oh, but you don't want to buy yet another car charger specifically for your iPhone? W...

Camouflaged Cables

If you can't beat 'em, join em. With wireless power nowhere to be seen, we are not left with many power cord options. Try your best to hide them or learn to deal with seeing them snake around your des...

IDAPT Charger Makes Wires Dissappear

If Unplggd was a superhero—perhaps we'll call him The Unplggd Avenger—his platform would be to rid the world's homes of ugly tech and his only weakness, his Kryptonite we should say, would...

Kinesis K2: Using the Wind and Sun to Power Your Devices

We all know that using the sun and wind is a great way to create electricity. It's green and pure. The problem is that there aren't that many devices out that use solar and wind power. Thankfully, thi...

Scared of the Dark and Addicted to Apple?

Two seemingly unrelated things; the need to keep your bedroom dimly lit at night to ward off serial killers and vampires (Well, some people like vampires—look at Twilight fangirls) and the need ...

You Can Work It Out
Charge Up Your Muscles and Gadget

You know you need the exercise anyhow, so why not just combine your gadget power needs with an easily transportable charging accessory which also provides you with the grip-enhancing workouts? Mac Fun...

POM: The Amazing Apple-Like Universal Battery Charger

After a few years, you end up with a lot of different makes of battery chargers. They aren't all the same and they all have their own chargers. It's easy in the beginning to stick to a brand, but tech...

DIY MintyBoost: Make Your Own Battery Powered iPod USB Charger

There is nothing more frustrating than being on the road or around and running out of juice in your iPod or iPhone. There are a number of solutions out there that will help you charge your gadgets, bu...

The Solution to Poor Cell Phone Battery Life: Complimentary Phone Charging Station

It seems that many of our friends, or almost anyone we talk to, has some difficulty getting through the day without their cell phone dying. It has gotten so bad, that we have even heard of people comp...