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Hitachi's Redesigned Modern Looking SimpleDrives

Most external hard drives don't really look that great. They're basically enclosures for hard drives and they serve that purpose. There are thousands of different enclosure designs. Hitachi just relea...

Dell's Inspiron Zino HD

While it may be a few years late in the mini-PC market, and closely resembling a familiar friend, Dell's Inspiron Zino HD promises to deliver snappy performance for desktop PC lovers on a dime. Perhap...

Tech Chest: PC Hack That's Hidden In Plain Sight

Rob Higardea had an old Via Epia motherboard hanging around the house that needed a purpose. Combining his love for odd cases and enclosures, Rob's travels led him to the most unusual of places&mda...

Put a New Spin on Your Workspace Photos

If there's one thing we love more than designing and building beautiful spaces to work and watch in, it's taking pictures of the spaces when they're all said and done. What's the point in making it go...

Great Little Card Reader Sticks to Metal Surfaces

There is just something about simple and efficient solutions to problems. For example, it's really hard to go without a USB card reader. These small devices are used to read the cards from your camera...

A Modern & Baby-Proof Home Office Computer Desk
Reader Questions

Unplggd reader Jenya from New York City had the following question: I am looking for a computer desk. My husband works from home from a home office. And we also have a small baby at home running up t...

Are You Planning Techie Halloween Costumes?

With less than a week until that costume-fest that is Halloween, you should have your costume all lined up. It's easy to go for a sexy cop outfit or to be the thousandth guy that's dressed as 'Swine F...

Technicolor: White

Many people see white as a lack of color; a blank canvas without blue or green splashed all over it. But we beg to differ. Sleek white gadgets can make just as big a statement as red, popping bright...

10/GUI: Are You Ready to Ditch the Keyboard and Mouse?

That's R. Clayton Miller's re-envisioning of the desktop human-computer interaction up above. What do you think? We like the ergonomics of a 1-to-1 ration 10 finger touchpad instead of a vertical to...

The Perfect Home Theater Mouse

One of the questions that comes up a lot when talking about home theater PCs, is what kind of mouse and/or keyboard to use? Remember that these computers are in the living room, so your gaming mouse w...

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...

Cheap Wireless Stereo with iPhone App & Vintage Speakers

At Unplggd, we enjoy everything wireless. However, anything that's become wireless usually tends to cost more. With a budget in mind, we set ourselves the task to creating a neat wireless stereo syste...

The Geek Urn: Your Final Userspace

A traditional urn on the mantle? That's for boring people. When true geeks head up to that cyberspace in the sky, they leave their mortal selves behind on Earth inside classic computers....

Incredible Floating Monitors and Thought Out Workstation

There's one thing to say about a well-organized workstation. It makes working a lot easier and pleasurable. This has got to be one of the more inspiring workstations that we've come across, and this i...

Inspiring Multi-Monitor Home Office Uses Darker Colors

Having more than one monitor is really handy when you work from home. However, sometimes, and sadly more often than we would like, multi-monitor workstations tend to look like air traffic control cent...

Great-Looking Illuminated Speaker and USB Hub

When you work with your laptop, you tend to use a few USB hubs when you are on the go. It doesn't really matter from what brand they are, as long as they work well. It's also best to work with some ki...

Lenovo C100 All-In-One: The 400-dollar iMac

Even though most of you are slowly getting on the laptop bandwagon, there is still a need for smart-looking desktops. As desktops go, the all-in-one format championed by Apple's iMac is hard to beat. ...

Retro Game Room Mashups: Digital Foosball!

What happens when you take one of the coolest things you can throw into your home - the foosball table, make it completely electronic, and toss in an awesome space theme? The digital Space Foosball Ta...

Computers in the Bedroom? Next to the Bed?!

It's usually a last-resort spot that's result of a too-small bedroom or an awkward floor plan. But are there any advantages to keeping the desk next to your bed?...

Final Frame: Spider Phoebe

Possibly the strangest computer workstation, the Spider Phoebe lounge chair....

Medion: Great Looking Multi-Touch Computer and HDTV

As full tower desktops become rarer and laptops become ubiquitous with modern daily life, it's apparent that desktops and HDTVs will become one functional device at a certain point. More and more all-...

Final Frame: The Fridge Desktop

Sometimes you've got to make do with what you've got, as was the case for Elza Rubule, who set up his iMac ontop of a mini fridge as a workspace. We've seen similar setups using a myriad of non-desk s...

Roundup: 10 Home Offices We Could Call Home

Home offices are so personal, that when viewing spaces belonging to others, it's not uncommon to say, "Neat, but I'd have to change _____ & _____." We've searched high and low and found 10 great wo...

Aegis Secure Hard Drive: When Security Software Isn't Enough

If there's one thing that needs to be secure, it's your data. Sure, some of us don't have any essential information on our computers, but lots of people store valuable data on their hard drives. It's ...

Flickr Roundup: Kids & Their Home Tech

Parents are very adamant about their views about technology in the home. Some say there's no TV until a certain age (although sometimes online videos count) and likewise, there's those who keep co...